The American tenor, Michael Lockley, has been acclaimed for the beauty of his singing as well as for the dashing stage presence he brings to his interpretations of leading roles in opera, operetta and musical theater. His talent and musicianship has brought him success in a panorama of music idioms: jazz, musical theater, oratorio, gospel, folk music, contemporary popular music, renaissance and early music, chamber music, modern music. His performances have brought him throughout the Americas, Europe, and East Asia, and have been frequently broadcast and telecast.

He began the 2005-2006 Season as Florestan with One World Symphony followed by Il Trovatore with ARC Opera. He sings Bach Magnificat with Orpheus Chamber Orchestra in Carnegie Hall, followed by Messiah with New York Oratorio Society at Carnegie Hall. He follows with an evening of Russian and French Music with Voices of Ascension, which will be broadcast on WQXR, and then returns to Carnegie Hall to sing Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with Musica Sacra. He will also be performing in the Jonathan Miller staging of the St. Matthew Passion at Brooklyn Academy of Music. In the spring he returns to ARC Opera to perform Turiddu and Canio, and performs Mendelssohn Paulus with the highly acclaimed Sacred Music in a Sacred Space concert series.

The highlight of last season was a triumphant return to Bolivia's Temporada de Opera for Carmen sponsored by the Ministerio de Education, Cultura y Desportes and the Viceministerio de Culturain with performances in La Paz and Santa Cruz de la Sierra. He also scored a success with Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis on the Sacred Music in a Sacred Space series in New York City.

Also, he sang a Puccini double-bill of Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi followed by the Messa di Gloria for P.A.L.A. Opera in New York City; Handel's Saul and a Bach concert both on the Sacred Music In A Sacred Space series in New York City, performances of Bach's Mass in b with the Charlotte (NC) Symphony; a French Opera Gala with the Charlotte (FL) Symphony, Mozart with the Pennsylvania Sinfonia Orchestra and concerts in Hong Kong. Recently he starred in Oper'issimo - A Celebration of Operatic Song and Dance with the Sylvan Opera, sang performances of Shakespeare's Songs and Otello (Rossini and Verdi) and Die Zauberflöte at the Caramoor Festival's Bel Canto at Caramoor, Verdi's Requiem with the Midland Symphony, was soloist at the Costa Rica and Guatemala Music Festivals and sang Cavaradossi in Tosca, a fully-staged production with the Fundacíon Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Bolivia.

Previously Mr. Lockley starred as Ruggero in La Rondine for Bel Canto at Caramoor conducted by Will Crutchfield (with which forces he had made his Caramoor Festival début in Rossini's La Gazza Ladra), sang Frère Elie in Messiaen's Saint Francis of Assisi with the Brooklyn Philharmonic under Robert Spano, was featured in Sondheim's Sweeney Todd with the New York Philharmonic (nominated for a Grammy Award) conducted by Andrew Litton and was soloist in Mozart's Coronation Mass with the Moscow Virtuosi under the baton of Vladimir Spivakov at Lincoln Center and the Verdi Requiem on the series Sacred Music in a Sacred Space in New York City. Mr. Lockley made his European début at the Maggio Musicale in Florence as Sultan Soliman in Mozart's Zaïde, a production which was repeated at the Mozart Festival in Prague. Highlights of an extensive career on the concert stage include chamber music at the prestigious Marlboro Music Festival, a rare recreation of the Dublin 1742 première of Messiah with the Virgin Consort, a Mozart Bicentennial Celebration performance at Lincoln Center with Musica Sacra and Janâcek's Otçenás on the Musica Viva of New York series.

Other operatic credits include the Baltimore Opera, New York City Opera, Tulsa Opera, Tri-Cities Opera, National Grand Opera and Bronx Opera, the OperaFest of New Hampshire and the Ash Lawn-Highland Festival. He has recorded for Arabesque, Greenhays and Rivertown Recordings. A recipient of a Richard F. Gold Career Grant, he has received career grants from the Ezio Pinza Council for American Singers of Opera and The Branch-Wilbur Fund.