Michael Arivony

Michael Arivony is a Malagasy baritone currently based in Vienna, Austria, as a member of the ensemble of the Wiener Volksoper. After having studied in London, at the Royal Academy of Music, and in Weimar, at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, he joined the opera studio of the Wiener Staatsoper in 2020 and stayed on to be a member of the ensemble till 2024.
Michael’s repertoire is varied between Lieder, opera and concert/oratorio repertoire. In his operatic roles appears major roles such as Don Giovanni (Don Giovanni), Figaro (Le Nozze di Figaro), Malatesta (Don Pasquale), Dandini (La Cenerentola), Lescaut (Manon), Dancaire (Carmen), Harlekin (Ariadne auf Naxos), Falke (Die Fledermaus), Papageno (Die Zauberflöte) and many other roles in houses like the Wiener Staatsoper, the Volkoper Wien or the Flanders Opera and Zürich Opera House. As well as stages like the Salzburger Festspiele, the Bonn Beethoven Fest, Festival Pulsation in Bordeaux among others. Cooperations with orchestras like the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monaco got him to record the first revival of “L’Ancetre” by Camille Saint-Saens, in 2023. Among the public that knows him, he is known for his warm voice, energetic stage presence, while captivating the audience with comical and also emotional twists. On his Q&A page, as an ensemble of the Volksoper Vienna, Michael
said that music and theater “should be a form of entertainment that transports the audience to another world, regardless of whether they agree with that world or not”.