Celebrated for his “richly shaded” (Operawire), “booming voice, and full range” (Houston Press), baritone Daniel Scofield is quickly garnering attention as a dramatic baritone on the rise who performs leading roles regularly in the United States and internationally.

Recent debuts include the Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Prague State Opera, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester, Fort Worth Opera, with additional engagements with the Teatro San Carlo, Lyric Opera Chicago, Houston Symphony and more.

A notable interpreter of Verdi, he has already sung the leading roles in I vespri siciliani, Rigoletto, and La traviata, and been engaged for Macbeth, Don Carlos, and Aida. Daniel has also triumphed as Jack Rance in La fanciulla del West, Scarpia in Tosca, Tonio in Pagliacci, and Alfio in Cavalleria rusticana. Praised for his nuanced characterizations, Daniel has begun earning recognition for his lyrical vocal technique, expressive musicality, dramatic range, and stylistic integrity.

In 2025/2026 Daniel makes several important debuts. To begin the season he appears in St. Louis as Jochanaan in Salome, a role he previously covered with the Houston Symphony, before returning to North Dakota as Don Giovanni and ending the year at the Lyric Opera of Chicago in Elijah Moshinsky’s original production of Cavalleria rusticana/Pagliacci. In September he sings excerpts from Siegfried, Tannhäuser, and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg in concert at the Markgräfliches Opernhaus in Bayreuth. In the spring he returns to the Prague State Opera to reprise Tonio/Alfio in Cavalleria rusticana/Pagliacci, and later will bring his experienced interpretation of Tonio in Pagliacci to Las Vegas. He makes his final debut in April as Golaud in Debussy’s symbolist masterpiece Pelléas et Mélisande with Opera Baltimore.

In 2024/25 Daniel travelled to Germany, where he created a new production of Pagliacci with Staatstheater Hannover. In the spring he made a double debut, joining Opera Carolina as Escamillo in Carmen. Further engagements include a return to the State Opera Prague in Cavalleria rusticana/Pagliacci, where he will make his debut in May as the title character in Der fliegende Holländer.

He began the 2023/24 season with a return to the Prague State Opera for Pagliacci/Cavalleria rusticana (Tonio/Alfio) in a revival of last season’s critically acclaimed new production by Ondřej Havelka. Additional season engagements include returns to Opera Orlando for Tosca (Scarpia), Opera Baltimore for Eugene Onegin in the title role and debuts with Fort Worth Opera in La bohème (Marcello), as well as his Houston Symphony debut in Salome.

The 2022/2023 season saw Daniel making several important debuts and premieres. In September he traveled to Berlin to perform Dame Ethel Smyth’s Les naufrageurs for the radio in the original French with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester under Maestro Robin Ticciati before returning to the Lyric Opera of Chicago in Sir David McVicar’s production of Don Carlos. He also joined the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples in their production of Die Walküre and returned to the Prague State Opera in their double bill of Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci, in a new production by Ondřej Havelka.

Previously he made his Glyndebourne Opera debut as Marcello in La bohème, his Prague State Opera debut as the Count in Der ferne Klang, and joined the Lyric Opera of Chicago for their production of Macbeth. Recent engagements include Marcello in La bohème with Charlottesville Opera, Montforte in I vespri siciliani with New Amsterdam Opera, and Cavalleria rusticana/Pagliacci with Lyric Opera of Chicago, which was among the cancellations of 2020.

Daniel Scofield is a two-time regional finalist of the Metropolitan Opera Eric and Dominique Laffont Competition and a recipient of the Olga Forrai Foundation grant for dramatic voices in opera. Apart from his opera performances, Mr. Scofield is also highly regarded as a concert performer. He has showcased his talents with orchestras across the country, including the Plano Symphony, Fort Wayne Philharmonic, and Indiana University Orchestra, among others. His concert repertoire includes works by Haydn, Handel, Britten, Stravinsky, and Mahler.