Bruce Fowler

Bruce Fowler (born 1965) is an American classical tenor who has had a major international performance career in operas and concerts since the early 1990s. He is particularly known for his appearances in bel canto operas. His first recording, as the tenor soloist for Handel's Messiah with Telarc, was nominated for a Grammy Award. He has also recorded Gioachino Rossini's Stabat Mater for Harmonia Mundi, Rossini's Armida for Sony, Jacques Ibert's Angelique for Cetra, Georg Philipp Telemann's Der Tag des Gerichts and Hugo Weisgall's Six Characters in Search of an Author on New World Records.

Born in West Monroe, Louisiana, where he graduated from West Monroe High School, Fowler studied at Oklahoma Baptist University in Shawnee, Oklahoma, where he earned bachelor's degrees in both voice and church music and graduated cum laude. He did post-baccalaureate studies at the University of Houston and earned a master's degree in vocal performance (opera) from the University of North Texas in Denton, before becoming a member of the young artist program at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. He made his stage debut with that company as Évandre in Christoph Willibald Gluck's Alceste in 1990. He appeared in several more roles with the Lyric Opera through 1992, including Joe in La fanciulla del West, Erster Priester in The Magic Flute, Wagner in Mefistofele, Prince Nilsky in The Gambler, Emperor Altoum of China in Turandot, and Nemorino in L'elisir d'amore.