A winner of the 2007 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, Alek Shrader has become a regular guest with the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Santa Fe Opera, the Salzburg Festival, and the Glyndebourne Festival. One of America's most versatile tenors, he has appeared in recital at Carnegie Hall and Wigmore Hall, and appeared in concert repertoire with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, St. Louis Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony, and the Cleveland Orchestra. Renowned for his interpretations of Rossini and Mozart, he is also a sought-after “Tony” in West Side Story, and the title character in Bernstein's Candide.