Tenor Maxwell Levy is an acclaimed interpreter of opera, concert, recital and musical theatrical and theatrical repertoire around the world. Based in New York and London, he is a member of Actors Equity Association (Equity) and the American Guild of Musical Artists (AGMA) and holds a Tier 1 Global Talent Visa in the United Kingdom.

In the Summer 2025 season Maxwell made his Opera Maine debut as Pirelli in Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd, conducted by Israel Gursky and directed by Dona Vaughn and alongside an all-star international cast. He received great acclaim from the sold-out performances. “As Adolfo Pirelli, Maxwell Levy was clearly having a grand time, hamming up every moment as the elixir selling faux Italian barber, with comically endless high notes adding to the fun.” - SharkOnArts. He will return to Opera Maine in September 2025 for their annual September Serenade as solo recitalist on September 14th, and Oceanview as solo recitalist on September 15th.

Maxwell also returns to The Penn Club with his one-man cabaret on September 12th, accompanied by the world’s most sought-after Byran Wagorn, for evening of arias, songs and crowd-pleasers. After sold-out audiences of his shows in 2023 and 2024 at The Penn Club and 2020, 2022 and 2024 at Fairview Country Club in Greenwich, CT, he will be taking this program on the road in future seasons.

In 2023 Maxwell made his Off-West End debut in Marc Blitzstein’s opera No For an Answer at The Arcola Theatre in London, directed by Mehmet Ergen. He graduated from the prestigious Master of Arts in Musical Theatre course at The Royal Academy of Music on full scholarship earlier that summer, under the tutelage of Mary Hammond and Dan Bowling, where he performed the roles of Brocklehurst and St John Rivers in Jane Eyre, and a cabaret music directed by Martin Lowe and directed by Chrissie Cartwright.

In 2022, Maxwell graduated from the world-renowned Royal Academy Opera AdvDip programme at The Royal Academy of Music in London under the direction of Brenda Hurley and tutelage of Mark Wildman. In his final year of studies he prepared Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi.

In the Spring 2020 season Maxwell was meant to reprise his role as Officer Krupke in West Side Story at the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari in Sardinia, Italy. The performances were postponed due to COVID-19. The production will be directed by Francesca Zambello and conducted by Donato Renzetti. He will also be covering the role of Lieutenant Schrank. 

In the remainder of the Summer and Fall 2020 seasons, Maxwell was meant to be making his role debut as Don José in Opera Loki’s production of Carmen, directed by Jane Gray. This was postponed due to COVID-19. The production will tour multiple cities throughout France and the United Kingdom. He was also slated to perform the role of Lysander in Britten’s A Midummer Night’s Dream with Royal Academy Opera, directed by Christopher Luscombe and conducted by Sian Edwards.

In the 2019/2020 season Maxwell was proud to have joined the Royal Academy Opera studio at the Royal Academy of Music in London, with program director Brenda Hurley. In November 2019, Maxwell performed the role of Tamino in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte at the Susie Sainsbury Theater at the Academy, conducted by Gareth Hancock and directed by Andrew Sinclair. In March 2020 Maxwell performed the role of Ricardo in Massenet’s Chérubin conducted by Anthony Legge, directed by James Hurley.

In December of 2019 Maxwell performed the role of the Opera Box Ghost in Corigliano’s The Ghosts of Versailles at The Royal Opera at The Château de Versailles. This will be a revival of The Glimmerglass Festival’s 2019 production, directed by Jay Lesenger, choreographed by Eric Sean Fogel and conducted by Joseph Colaneri.

In the Summer 2019 season, Maxwell returned to The Glimmerglass Festival, performing the role of Hermann in Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades across acclaimed Soprano Patricia Schuman as the Countess. The production was directed by Francesca Zambello and conducted by Michelle Rofrano. About Maxwell’s performance, Opera News wrote, “Mr. Levy is that rare, somewhat dark voiced tenor who not only has the stentorian delivery needed to fill any hall, but also the ability to scale it back with gorgeous results, as he imbues his vocalization with immense heart and feeling…I can predict you will hear much much more of tenor Maxwell Levy.”

Maxwell will perform the role of the Ghost Quartet in John Corigliano’s The Ghosts of Versailles, directed by Jay Lesenger and conducted by Joseph Colaneri. He will also be performing the role of the Emcee/Ensemble in Kern and Hammerstein’s Show Boat directed by Francesca Zambello and E. Loren Meeker and conducted by James Lowe. The season runs from July 6th to August 24th in Cooperstown, NY.

In the 2018/2019 season, Maxwell continued his performance studies at The Juilliard School, pursuing a Masters of Music in Vocal Arts under the tutelage of faculty teacher Marlena Malas. Performances at Juilliard included Maxwell’s Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall debut, performing a set of New York-themed musical theater and art songs as part of the Wednesdays at One series. He performed Bill Bolcom’s Cabaret Songs as part of Juilliard’s Liederabend series at Paul Hall, under the direction of Cameron Stowe.

In the 2018 summer season, Maxwell was seen in 37 performances on the Alice Busch Opera Theatre stage as a member of the Young Artist Program at The Glimmerglass Festival in Cooperstown, NY.

At Glimmerglass, he performed the role of William Dale, while covering the role of Lt. Horstmayer, in Kevin Puts and Mark Campbell’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 2011 opera Silent Night, which earned significant acclaim. The production was conducted by Nicole Paiement and directed by Tomer Zvulun. Said Richard Sasanow of ‘Broadway World,’ “it blew me away.” He performed the role of the Ufficiale (Officer), while covering the role of Bartolo, in Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia, directed by Festival General and Artistic Director Francesca Zambello and conducted by Festival Music Director Joseph Colaneri. Topping off the Glimmerglass season, Maxwell performed the role of Officer Krupke in the triumphant West Side Story, also directed by Francesca Zambello and conducted by David Charles Abell.

In the 2016/2017 and 2017/2018 seasons, Maxwell was a member of the chorus roster at Opera Philadelphia, performing chorus in the company’s productions of Turandot (2016), Tancredi (2017) and The Magic Flute (2017). In the spring of 2018, he made his Opera Philadelphia solo debut as the Gypsy in Bizet’s Carmen directed by Paul Curran and conducted by Yves Abell. While in Philadelphia, he was a member of the Philadelphia Symphonic Chorus and the Philadelphia Singers, performing with The Philadelphia Orchestra in The Kimmel Center’s Verizon Hall and The Mann Center.

In the summer of 2017, Maxwell performed as part of the Chautauqua Institution School of Music Voice Program under the direction of Marlena Malas. At Chautauqua, he performed recitals led by Craig Rutenberg, Mikael Eliasen and Don St. Pierre. He performed the roles of Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor, Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte and Faninal in Der Rosenkavalier in the scenes program in the Chautauqua Amphitheater.

From 2014 to 2017, Maxwell was a member of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus of the Boston Symphony and Boston Pops Orchestras, under the choral direction of John Oliver. He performed a range of concerts from three seasons of Holiday Pops at Symphony Hall to a semi-staged Candide in the Koussevitsky Music Shed at Tanglewood, under conductors including Andris Nelsons, Keith Lockhart and Bramwell Tovey.

Maxwell completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Pennsylvania where he received a B.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Economics with a concentration in Public Policy and Governance and a minor in Hispanic Studies