Tenor Michael Spyres has amassed an impressive record of major operatic and concert performances in the 2010s and early 2020s. He has appeared on various opera recordings and has issued several distinctive recital albums. Local opera helped launch Spyres' career: by the time he was 22, he had appeared in six full-scale operatic productions. Spyres made his debut at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples in 2006 in Beethoven's Fidelio. Spyres released the recital albums A Fool for Love (2011) and Espoir (2017). He returned the following year with Rossini: Amici e Rivali, a collection of Rossini duets for two tenors on which he teamed with Lawrence Brownlee. In 2021 and 2023, respectively, Spyres released the albums BariTenor and Contra-Tenor, exploring works for unusual voice types.