Daniel NOYOLA

Originally from San Luis Potosí, Mexico, bass Daniel Noyola recently completed three seasons as an ensemble member with the Bayerische Staatsoper. In the 2025-2026 season, Mr. Noyola sang Masetto in Don Giovanni with the Budapest Festival Orchestra led by Iván Fischer at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Montano in Otello with Staatsoper Stuttgart, Quince in A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Teatro de la Maestranza, and made a role debut as Leporello in Don Giovanni with the same company. This summer, Mr. Noyola joins The Royal Danish Theatre as Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte and covers Male Consort V/Executioner in the world premiere of Brett Dean’s Of One Blood with the Bayerische Staatsoper. Upcoming engagements for the 2026-2027 season include singing as Inquisitor in Prokoviev’s The Fiery Angel, Daland in Der fliegende Holländer, and the bass soloist in Mozart’s Requiem with the Staatsoper Kassel. Mr. Noyola will also make his debut with the Komische Oper Berlin as Somnus in Semele.

In 2024-2025, Mr. Noyola sang several roles with the Bayerische Staatsoper, including Petrus in Der Mond, 2nd Geharnichter in Die Zauberflöte, Flemish Deputy in Don Carlo, and Wächter in Strauss' Die Liebe der Danae. Other roles have included Pistola in Falstaff, Zuniga in Carmen, and Truffaldino in Ariadne auf Naxos. In 2024, Noyola toured with Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra singing Truffaldino in Ariadne auf Naxos with the Spoleto Festival, MÜPA Budapest, and Vicenza Opera Festival. That same year, he was a finalist in the Belvedere Competition in Jūrmala, Latvia.

During his residency with the Houston Grand Opera Studio, Mr. Noyola made his house debut as Colline in La bohème, sang Masetto in Kasper Holten’s production of Don Giovanni, and starred in the world premiere of J. Martinez's El Milagro del Recuerdo. Previous engagements have included Mustafá in Rossini’s L’italiana in Algeri (Tri-Cities Opera), Dulcamara in L’elisir d’amore (Sociedad Artística Sinaloense), Uberto in La Serva Padrona and Luka in The Bear (Merola Opera), and Scapin and Der Lautsprecher in a double bill of Gluck’s L’île de Merlin and Ullman’s Der Kaiser von Atlantis (Wolf Trap Opera).

Mr. Noyola has won awards in the Career Bridges, Artist Series Concert of Sarasota, New England Region of the Laffont Competition, Mario Lanza, and AIMS Meistersinger competitions, and represented Mexico in the 2019 Operalia competition. Mr. Noyola is a graduate of the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia, where he appeared as the title role in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Ferrando in Verdi’s Il Trovatore, Don Alfonso in Mozart’s Così fan tutte, and Raimondo in Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor. He completed his bachelor studies at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música in Mexico City.