Bass-baritone Karl Buttermann is currently preparing to cover Fasolt and sing Gunther in TUNDI Productions’ Wagner in Vermont Festival’s Der Ring des Nibelungen this upcoming summer of 2025, in Brattleboro, Vermont. He previously executed the roles of Donner and Gunther in Das Rheingold and Götterdämmerung last summer of 2024, with the same company. In the fall of 2023, Mr. Buttermann ventured into contemporary opera, where he explicated the roles of Prophet/King in Nico Muhly’s Dark Sisters with Journey North Opera Company in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In the summer of 2023, he covered Wanderer in Wagner in Vermont’s Siegfried. He debuted his first lead Verdi role in 2022, singing Count di Luna in Il Trovatore with Boulder Opera Company. In 2021, he sang a few roles with MIOpera, those being Melchior (Amahl and the Night Visitors) and Don Basilio (Il barbiere di Siviglia) in Bloomington-Normal, Illinois. As a 2020 Resident Artist, Mr. Buttermann was scheduled to sing as Count Monterone in Opera North’s production of Rigoletto, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the performances were postponed. He only performed in a Flute, singing the roles of Speaker/Second Armored Man, in Lebanon, New Hampshire.

Mr. Buttermann attended UNC School of the Arts from 2016-2018, and received a Master of Music Degree in Vocal Performance. From 2012-2016, he received a Bachelor of Music Degree in the same major from Johns Hopkins University’s Peabody Conservatory.