The "athletically comic" and "strong-voiced" tenor, Max Zander has been seen and heard with opera companies and orchestras across the United States and abroad. He begins his 2025 season singing the Governor and Vanderdendur in Candide with South Florida Symphony and, during the 2023-2024 season, was a guest artist with Yale Opera, where he made his role debut as Sellem in The Rake's Progress.

During the 2022-2023 season, he portrayed Fima Votov in the World Premiere of Arkhipov by Peter Knell and Stephanie Fleischmann at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Los Angeles and made his debut with the Evansville Philharmonic as the Tenor Soloist for Handel’s Messiah. He then joined the Orchestra of St. Peter by the Sea as Beppe in Pagliacci, appeared as Billington in a workshop of Kennedy Verrett and George M. Kopp’s new opera Madame Theremin at the National Opera Center, and made his debut with the Norwalk Symphony as Monostatos in The Magic Flute.

Other recent career highlights include Bardolfo in Falstaff with both the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and with Berkshire Opera Festival; Pong in Turandot with Cedar Rapids Opera; The Four Servants and Nathanäel in Les Contes d’Hoffmann with Opéra Louisiane; Guillot de Morfontaine in Manon with Opera Idaho; Caius in Falstaff with Opera Saratoga; Remendado in Carmen with the Indianapolis Symphony; Anselmo in Man of La Mancha with Utah Festival Opera; the Witch in Hansel and Gretel with Bel Cantanti Opera; and Harry in La Fanciulla del West with Apotheosis Opera.