American baritone Brian Mulligan performs regularly with the leading opera
houses and orchestras of the United States, including the Metropolitan Opera,
San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston Grand Opera, Los Angeles Opera and
Washington National Opera. Abroad, he has been heard in London, Vienna,
Dublin, Auckland and at the Saito Kinen Festival in Japan. Roles in his repertoire
include Valentin, Enrico, Zurga, Marcello, Rodrigo, Wolfram and Tarquinius, as
well as the title roles in
Eugene Onegin and
Nixon in China.
On the concert stage he has appeared with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra,
the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Houston Symphony, the Phoenix Symphony
and the Cleveland Orchestra, in works of Brahms, Haydn, Mahler, Mendelssohn
and Vaughan Williams. In Chicago, he recently sang the world premiere of Songs
for Adam, a cycle of six songs for orchestra and solo baritone.
A graduate of the Juilliard School, Brian also studied at Yale University, the
Aspen Opera Theater Center and the Steans Insitute at Ravinia. He is the
winner of a Richard Tucker Career Grant, the George London Prize and first
prize at the Belvedere International Vocal Competition in Vienna. Brian was
recently named one of the top Irish Americans in Irish America Magazine. He
holds dual citizenship with the United States and Ireland.
