The American tenor Bruce Ford is firmly established as one of today’s most outstanding singers. In a career spanning over twenty-five years he has earned high praise for his extraordinary vocal beauty and range, textual vividness, authoritative style and technical prowess. He is a frequent guest at many of the world’s leading opera houses, and is especially renowned for his command of bel canto style, and his interpretations of Mozart, Rossini, Bellini and Donizetti. He has made more than thirty recordings for the Opera Rara label of rarely heard operas of Mayr, Donizetti, Pacini and Rossini, plus nineteenth-century Italian song repertoire.