A member of the New York City Opera and Metropolitan Opera, Daniel Shigo has spent his life studying and applying the principles of bel canto onstage and in the voice studio.

Shigo Voice Studio

Private voice studio founded on direct knowledge and deep study of the bel canto teachings of Pauline Viardot-García, Manuel García, and Francesco Lamperti as taught by Anna Eugénie Schoen-René, 1986-2024.

Agnes Varis Trust Research Grant, Finding Garcia: The Teaching of Anna Eugénie Schoen-René, 2016-2020.

Author

Hidden In Plain Sight: The Hermann Klein Phono-Vocal Method Based upon the Famous School Of Manuel Garcia, VoiceTalkPublications, 2013. This historic singing manual, produced with gramophone recordings, reveals the lost teachings of the father of voice science.

VOICETALK: Historical Perspectives on the Art of Singing. A blog featuring historical and archival material, downloadable texts, and original content, 2009-2024.

Founding Editor-in-Chief of VOICEPrints, The Official Journal of the New York Singing Teachers Association, 2003 to 2008.

Professional Baritone

New York City Opera: Regular Chorus, ninety-two productions; sixty-four solo performances, 1988-2011.

Metropolitan Opera: Extra Chorus, twelve productions, 1996-2003.

Opera Orchestra of New York: Chorus, sixteen productions, 1994-2013.

New York Choral Artists, New York Philharmonic, thirty-five productions, 1991-2016.

Baritone soloist: Requiem [Fauré], Festival dei Due Mondi, Spoleto, Italy, 1985.

Performed solo repertoire: St. John Passion, Christmas Oratorio, Ich habe genug, Schweigt Stille Plaudert Nicht [J.S. Bach]; Requiem [Duruflé]; Requiem [Fauré]; In Terra Pax [Finzi]; Acis and Galatea, Magnificat, Messiah, Israel in Egypt, Judas Maccabeus, Samson, Te Deum [Handel]; Creation, Lord Nelson Mass [Haydn]; Elijah [Mendelssohn]; Coronation Mass, Requiem [Mozart].

Conductors

Yves Abel, Guido Ajmone-Marsan, Marin Alsop, Scott Bergeson, Harry Bicket, Joseph Colaneri, Sergiu Comissiona, John DeMain, Joseph Flummerfelt, Paul Gemignani, Valery Gergiev, Alan Gilbert, Christopher Hogwood, Christopher Keene, James Levine, George Manahan, Kurt Masur, Zubin Mehta, Steven Mosteller, Riccardo Muti, Kent Nagano, Sir Roger Norrington, Imre Paulo, Eve Queller, Julius Rudel, Nello Santi, Steven Sloane, Michael Tilson Thomas. Gary Wedow.

Stage Directors

Christopher Alden, Ann Baltz, Bruce Beresford, Tito Capobianco, Frank Corsaro, Mark Lamos, Rhoda Levine, Lotfi Mansouri, Jonathan Miller, Hans Neugebauer, Hal Prince, Richard Sabellico, Renata Scotto, Albert Sherman, Susan Stroman, Stephen Wadsworth, Robert Wilson, Francesca Zambello.

Vocal Studies

Florence Berggren, Laura Brooks-Rice, Anne Wiggins Brown, Elem Eley, Margaret Harshaw.

Musical Preparation

Dalton Baldwin, Richard Beeson, Steven Blier, Tyson Deaton, Margo Garrett, William Barto Jones, Scott Rednour, Arlene Shrut, Laura Ward.

New York City Opera

Abduction from the Seraglio, Acis and Galatea, Anna Bolena [Donizetti], Antony and Cleopatra [Barber], Ariane et Barbe Bleue [Dukas], Attila, The Ballad of Baby Doe, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, La Bohème [Puccini], Brigadoon, Candide, I Capuleti e i Montecchi [Bellini], Carmen, Carmina Burana, Cavalleria Rusticana, Cinderella [Rodgers], Cendrillon [Massenet], La clemenza di Tito, Les Contes d’Hoffman, Così fan tutte, The Cunning Little Vixen [Janáček], Daphne [Strauss], Dead Man Walking [Heggie], Desert Song [Romberg], Dialogues des Carmélites [Poulenc], Die Fledermaus, Don Giovanni, Don Pasquale, La Donna del Lago, Doktor Faust [Busoni], The Dreyfus Affair [Whyte], L'elisir d'amore, Ermione [Rossini], Esther [Weisgall], Falstaff [Verdi], La Fanciulla del West, Faust, Festival of Regrets [Drattell], Der fliegende Holländer, Glass Blowers [Sousa], H.M.S. Pinafore, Harvey Milk [Wallace], House of the Dead [Korngold], Iphigénie en Tauride [Gluck], Kinkakuji [Miyamoto], Lakme [Delibes], L’etoile [Chabrier], Les Pêcheurs de Perles, Lilith [Drattell], The Love for Three Oranges [Janáček], Lucia di Lammermoor, Macbeth, Marco Polo [Tan Dun], Margaret Garner [Danielpour], Mathis der Maler [Hindemith], Mefistofele [Boito], The Merry Widow, A Midsummer Marriage [Tippett], The Mikado, Moses und Aron [Schoenberg], Most Happy Fella, Music Man, The New Moon [Romberg], Le Nozze di Figaro, Of Mice and Men [Floyd], Patience, Pagliacci, Pajama Game, Pirates of Penzance, *Platée [Rameau], Prince Igor [Borodin], A Quiet Place [Bernstein], Rasputin [Rautavaara], Rigoletto, Roberto Devereux, La Rondine, Der Rosenkavalier, Séance on a Wet Afternoon [Schwartz], Semele [Handel], Die Soldaten [Zimmermann], Student Prince [Romberg], Sweeney Todd, Die Tote Stadt [Korngold], Tosca, La Traviata, Turandot, Vanessa [Barber], Il Viaggio a Reims [Rossini], Visit of the Old Lady [Einem], Wonderful Town [Berstein], Die Zauberflöte [Mozart], 110 in the Shade.

Metropolitan Opera

Boris Godunov, Don Carlo, Peter Grimes [Britten], Lohengrin, Die Meistersinger, Moses und Aron [Schoenberg], Parsifal, Das Rheingold, Samson et Dalia [Saint-Saëns], Tannhäuser, Tristan und Isolde, Turandot.

Opera Orchestra Of New York

Andrea Chénier [Giordano], Anna Bolena [Donizetti], Attila [Verdi], I Capuleti e i Montecchi [Bellini], Caterina Coronaro [Donizetti], La Donna del Lago [Rossini}, I due Foscari [Verdi], Giovanna d'Arco [Verdi], I Lombardi [Verdi], Otello [Verdi], Il Pirata [Bellini], I Puritani [Bellini], La Sonnambula [Bellini], La Straniera [Bellini]. La Wally [Catalani], I Vespri Siciliani [Verdi].

New York Choral Artists

B Minor Mass [J.S. Bach]; 9th Symphony, Fidelio [Beethoven]; Symphony 1, Kaddish, Chichester Psalms [Bernstein]; Ein deutsches Requiem [Brahms]; Psyché [Franck]; Messiah [Handel]; The Creation [Haydn]; The Planets [Holtz]; Jeanne d’Arc au Bûcher [Honegger]; A Faust Symphony [Liszt]; Symphony 2 Resurrection, 3 and 8 [Mahler]; A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Elijah [Mendelssohn]; Requiem [Mozart]; Carmina Burana [Orff]; Coro di Morti [Petrassi]; Alexander Nevsky [Prokofiev]; Daphis et Cloe [Ravel]; Karawane [Salonen]; Gurrelieder [Schoenberg]; Symphony 13 Babi Yar [Shostokovich]; Der Zigeunerbaron [Strauss]; Requiem Mass [Verdi]; Der Freischutz [Von Weber].

City Center Encores!

Lady in the Dark [Weill].

Music Educator

Young People’s Chorus of New York City, Voice Faculty, 2017-2020.

“Practically Perfect Pedagogy: The Failure of Modern Vocal Pedagogy and How It Can Be Corrected,” Politics of the Throat: Voice, Body and Modern Performances of Humanity, University of Pennsylvania, 2015.

Masters in Performance and Vocal Pedagogy, Westminster Choir College, Princeton, New Jersey, begun 1985-1986.

Music Editor, Silver Burdette & Ginn, Morristown, NJ, 1984-1985.

Langhorne Junior High, Orchestra & Band, Grades 7-8, Langhorne, PA, 1983-1984; Willard High School, Vocal Music, Grades 9-12, Willard, MO, 1982; Willard; Elementary School, Grades 1-6, Vocal Music, Willard, MO, 1981.

BM in Music Education, Evangel College, Springfield, Missouri, 1981.