These performances led him to make major debuts at the Royal Opera, Metropolitan Opera, and the Lyric Opera of Chicago. From there he was asked to tour Australia with the Sutherland/Williamson International Opera Company. He went on to make his New York City Opera debut, where he would become a stalwart and caught the attention of Joan Sutherland and her husband, the conductor Richard Bonynge.
He continued his vocal training at Peabody Conservatory and in 1960 went on to win the American Opera Auditions and the Met National Council Auditions, a year after his operatic debut.
Malas opted out of the business and went on to study at the Towson State College in Maryland and taught geography for a year after graduation. The bass-baritone from Baltimore came from a family who a restaurant named Duffy’s. Spiro Malas has died at the age of 86 on June 23, 2019.
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