"In the title role, tenor Dane Suarez was simply everything one could wish for." So wrote Opera Today of Suarez's role debut as Andrea Chénier with OperaDelaware, praising "an uncommonly poised, gleaming spinto instrument that can ring out in the house with powerful impact one minute and then intone phrases with caressing nuance and offer melting utterance the next."
Suarez opens his 2026/27 season in Europe. He makes his house debut with Opera Română Craiova as Manrico in Il trovatore and sings Cavaradossi in Tosca, taking both productions and opera galas on tour in Germany. At OperaDelaware he makes three debuts: Javier in Fernanda; Written in Secret, which pairs Janáček's The Diary of One Who Vanished with Daron Hagen's Songs of Madness and Sorrow; and Roberto in Puccini's Le Villi. He makes orchestra debuts as Rodolfo in La bohème with the PA Sinfonia Orchestra and as tenor soloist in Handel's Messiah with the Sioux City Symphony Orchestra. He also sings his first Dick Johnson in La fanciulla del West, his first Ulises in Catán's Salsipuedes and his first Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. He closes the season with his house debut as Radamès in Aida at Opera Las Vegas.
His 2025/26 season brought role debuts as Giovanni in La hija de Rappaccini with Opera Columbus, Radamès with Opera Southwest, and Andrea Chénier with OperaDelaware. He also sang Canio in Pagliacci at OperaDelaware, Don José in Carmen with the New Jersey Festival Orchestra, and Scalia in Scalia/Ginsburg and Richard Henry Lee in 1776 at Utah Festival Opera.
Suarez made his international debut at Wexford Festival Opera as Don Ferolo Whiskerandos in Stanford's The Critic. Bachtrack wrote that his "tenor throbbed with passion," and OperaWire heard "a resonant, secure voice." Other recent engagements include Don José with Opera Memphis, the world premiere of Adam del Monte's Llantos 1492 at Opera Southwest, and Verdi's Requiem with the Erie Philharmonic.
In the winter of 2020, Mr. Suarez returned to West Bay Opera to perform the role of Macduff in their production of Macbeth. For the remainder of the 2020 season, he was scheduled to reprise the role of Rodolfo in La bohème with Fort Worth Opera (COVID19), perform the title role in Faust with Opera Neo (COVID19) and make his role debut as Manrico in Il trovatore with Opera in the Heights (COVID19). In the summer of 2020, Mr. Suarez performed the role of First Armored Man in Opera Neo's innovative digital production of The Magic Flute. For 2020-2021, Mr. Suarez debuted with the Memphis Symphony Orchestra for their holiday concert, returned to Opera Memphis as Scalia in Derrick Wang's acclaimed Scalia/Ginsburg, returned to Maryland Opera for a livestreamed concert, and was scheduled to perform the role of Don José in Carmen with Festival Opera, (the aforementioned production postponed to 2023.)
Mr. Suarez’s 2019 season included his role and house debut as Fenton in Falstaff with West Bay Opera, a return to Opera Neo to perform the role of Lensky in Eugene Onegin where he was hailed by critics as "a vocal tour de force of surpassing splendor," a return to Opera San José as Greenhorn in Moby-Dick, reprising the role of Erik in Der fliegende Holländer with Baltimore Concert Opera, and his mainstage debut as Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly with Opera San José.
In 2018, Mr. Suarez reprised the roles of Don José in Carmen and Rodolfo in La bohème AKA “The Hipsters” with Pacific Opera Project where the Act I duet was described as "a transfixing moment of sublime beauty." He sang the title role in Idomeneo with Opera Neo and joined Opera San José as a Resident Artist in 2017, where his role responsibilities included Ruggero in La rondine, Erik in Der fliegende Holländer, Alfredo in La traviata, and Canio in Pagliacci. During the 2016-17 season, Mr. Suarez made his New York City Opera debut in his "completely winning" performance as Joe in La fanciulla del West, Rodolfo in his debut with Pacific Opera Project, and was a Studio Artist with Sarasota Opera where he covered Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, and performed Flaminio in L’amore dei tre re where he was subsequently awarded the Mandelker Award for Outstanding Studio Artist. He returned to Fort Worth Opera for their 2017 Frontiers Showcase, and to Opera Memphis for 30 Days of Opera. Mr. Suarez was pictured on the front page of The Arts section of The New York Times and lauded for his “beautiful, soaring, and moving” performance as Cavaradossi in LoftOpera’s production of Tosca that “brought down the house.”
Mr. Suarez made his John F. Kennedy Center debut in 2015 with Washington National Opera as Ely Parker in Philip Glass’s Appomattox. Other past credits include joining Opera Memphis as Don José in La tragédie de Carmen and Beppe in Pagliacci, a run with Crested Butte Music Festival as Rodolfo, his role debut as Il Duca in Rigoletto at Opera in the Heights, his Fort Worth Opera debut as Marcellus in Thomas’s Hamlet, Pedrillo in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Mr. Splinters in The Tender Land, and Normanno in Lucia di Lammermoor all with Opera North, his debut as Don José as well as a turn as Shuisky alongside Eric Owens in the Coronation Scene from Boris Godunov with Aspen Music Festival, and Henrik in A Little Night Music at the late Loren Maazel's Castleton Festival.
Mr. Suarez was a 2014 National Semi-Finalist of The Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and has been recognized and awarded by multiple organizations including: The Olga Forrai Foundation, Tri-Cities Opera TCO NEXT Competition, The Loren L. Zachary Society for the Performing Arts, Giulio Gari International Vocal Competition, Opera Birmingham Vocal Competition, Sarasota Opera, Brava! Opera Theater Vocal Competition, The Mary Jacobs Smith Singer of the Year Competition, Beethoven Club of Memphis, Bel Canto Foundation, and Sigma Nu Fraternity, Inc.
Mr. Suarez holds a bachelor’s degree in music from Butler University and a master’s degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Suarez's wrenching farewell aria prior to the second act duel gave us a vocal tour de force of surpassing splendor.
Mr. Suarez is represented by Bob Quintana/Quintana Artist Management.
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