American tenor Stephen Costello made his San Diego Opera debut in 2010 as Romeo in Romeo and Juliet and returned in 2011 as the Singer in Der Rosenkavalier and Faust in Faust. He made his Metropolitan Opera debut in 2007 as Arturo in Lucia di Lammermoor and was then invited to sing Edgardo that same season and opened the 2011-12 Metropolitan Opera season as Lord Percy in Anna Bolena. Recent notable performances include Alfredo in La traviata at the Royal Opera, Covent Garden and Rodolfo in La bohème at Los Angeles Opera. He made his Vienna Staatsoper debut as Rodolfo and recently returned to sing Nemorino in The Elixir of Love. He created the role of Greenhorn for the world premiere of Moby-Dick for The Dallas Opera, sang Cassio in Otello with the Salzburg Festival, Edgardo at Fort Worth Opera, Camille in The Merry Widow, Lord Percy, Leicester in Mary, Queen of Scots (Maria Stuarda) and the title role of Roberto Devereux with The Dallas Opera singing all three of the leading tenor roles of Donizetti’s Tudor trilogy, Christian in Cyrano and Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi with the Opera Company of Philadelphia and at Italy’s Spoleto Festival, Romeo with Baltimore Opera and The Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto at Deutsche Oper Berlin. He made his professional debut as Rodolfo with Fort Worth Opera and his European debut as Nemorino with Opéra National de Bordeaux. He was awarded a 2007 Career Grant for the Richard Tucker Music Foundation, as well as a 2006 Sara Tucker Study Grant. He won first prize in the 2006 George London Foundation for Singers Competition as well as First Prize and Audience Prize in the Giargiari Competition as well as First Prize in the Licia Albanese Puccini Foundation Competition.