Heldentenor Stephen Gould’s upcoming opera performances include Der fliegende Holländer and Ring Cycles at the Vienna State Opera as well as his much anticipated debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in Der fliegende Holländer.  

Further performances in 2010 include Lohengrin in Hamburg, Siegfried in Budapest, Parsifal in Vienna as well as Schönberg's Gurrelieder in Montreux and with the Lucerne Festival. With the turn of the year comes his first assumption of the role of 'Tristan' in Tristan und Isolde at the New National Theater in Tokyo under the direction of Kazushi Ono.

2011 will include Tristan und Isolde in Dresden, Der fliegende Holländer, Tannhäuser, and Ring Cycles in Vienna, Götterdämmerung at Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Mahler Eighth Symphony in Leipzig, and his debut at the world-renowned Salzburg Festival in Die Frau ohne Schatten under Christian Thielemann. Looking ahead, 2012 brings concert performances of Tristan und Isolde in Berlin, concert performances of Fidelio with the Dallas Symphony, as well as new productions of Götterdämmerung in Munich and Tannhäuser in Torino. Plans in 2013 (the 200th Anniversary of Richard Wagner's birth) include Götterdämmerung in Munich; Parsifal, Tristan und Isolde, as well as concert Siegfried's in Berlin; Der fliegende Holländer, Siegfried, and Götterdämmerung in Vienna, and also both Siegfried and Götterdämmerung in Amsterdam.

Stephen Gould has performed with such conductors as Daniel Barenboim, Ivor Bolton, Pierre Boulez, Jesus Lopes Cobos, Myung-Whun Chung, Gabriele Ferro, Adam Fischer, Valery Gergiev, Hartmut Haenchen, Marek Janowski, Philippe Jordan, Daniel Lipton, Fabio Luisi, Zubin Mehta, Ingo Metzmacher, Franz Welser-Möst, Kent Nagano, Seiji Ozawa, Donald Runnicles, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Ulf Schirmer, Peter Schneider, Christian Thielemann, und Massimo Zanetti.

A look back during the past few years have included new productions of Les Troyens in Valencia, Der fliegende Holländer in Madrid, Otello in Tokyo,  Siegfried and Götterdämmerung in Vienna, Tannhäuser in Paris as well as in Las Palmas, Peter Grimes in Dresden and Geneva, Die Liebe der Danae and Otello in Dresden, Fidelio in Tokyo, Der fliegende Holländer in Munich, Tannhäuser, Siegfried and Götterdämmerung at the Bayreuth Festival, Lohengrin in Trieste, Tannhäuser in Geneva, Die tote Stadt in Berlin, Vienna and Covent Garden, Fidelio in Rome, Der fliegende Holländer in Palermo, Ariadne auf Naxos and Parsifal in Graz, Les Troyens, Fidelio and Otello in Florence, as well as many other appearances in Dresden, Berlin, Munich, Vienna, Hamburg, Mannheim, Karlsruhe, Oslo, Barcelona and Madrid.

As a concert singer he was heard in Beethoven 9th symphony with Atlantic Symphony Orchestra (also recorded by Telarc), in Berlin and Munich, Beethoven's Missa Solemnis with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra,  Schönberg's Gurrelieder in Montreal, Berlin, Brusselles, Amsterdam and in Helsinki, Mahler's 8th symphony at the Bergen Festival, Carnegie Hall, and in Paris, Vienna and Budapest, Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde in Berlin, Graz as well as in Israel and at the Lucerne Festival, and Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex in London.

Born in the United States of America, he trained at the New England Conservatory of Music and apprenticed with the Lyric Opera of Chicago Center for American Artists. Stephen spent the first decade of his career in the United States, performing in concert, opera, and especially, touring in musical theater. During this period, he continued his studies with former Metropolitan Opera baritone John Fiorito, making the vocal transition to heldentenor.

Critical praise greeted his European debut as Florestan in Fidelio with the Linzer Landestheater. Continued success followed with Britten's Peter Grimes, Saint-Saens' Samson et Dalila, Weber’s Der Freischütz, and the first of many performances of the title role in Wagner's Tannhäuser. Opern Welt magazine proclaimed Stephen as "a Tannhäuser of international stature." With this foundation laid, Stephen received offers to sing at the prestigious Maggio Musicale in Florence under maestro Zubin Mehta. An important milestone in his career came with his debut as Tannhäuser under maestro Christian Thielemann at the 2004 Bayreuth Festival.  His busy operatic singing schedule is now entering its second decade.