The “athletically comic” and “strong-voiced” tenor Max Zander began his 2022-2023 season as Fima Votov in the World Premiere of Arkhipov by Peter Knell and Stephanie Fleischmann at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Los Angeles. He makes his debut tonight with the Evansville Philharmonic as 
the Tenor Soloist for Handel’s Messiah.
     He kicked off the 2021-2022 season making his house debut with Berkshire Opera Festival, where he reprised Bardolfo in Verdi’s Falstaff. He then joined Louisiana State University as a guest artist, singing Heurtebise in Philip Glass’s Orphée, and returned to Hub City Opera as the title character in Darius Milhaud’s Le Pauvre Matelot, before returning to Opéra Louisiane as the Four Servants and Nathanäel in Les Contes d’Hoffmann.
     Other recent career highlights include Bardolfo in Falstaff with Sir Bryn Terfel and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Pong in Turandot with Cedar Rapids Opera; Guillot de Morfontaine in Manon with Opera Idaho; King Kaspar in Amahl and the Night Visitors with Opéra Louisiane; Don Issachar (and Cacambo cover) in Candide with Des Moines Metro Opera; Caius in Falstaff with Opera Saratoga; Remendado in Carmen with the Indianapolis Symphony; the Witch in Hansel and Gretel with Bel Cantanti Opera; Anselmo in Man of La Mancha with Utah Festival Opera; and Harry in La Fanciulla del West with Apotheosis Opera.
     Zander is an alumnus of the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and currently resides in New York City.