BRIAN J. ALVARADO

Brian J. Alvarado “sings with a liquid baritone of great charm," "a highly attractive legato," and "precise patter elocution" (Parterre Box). His portrayals have ranged from “vulnerable” (Opera News), “most moving” (Oberon’s Grove), and “one to fall in love with” (Petoskey News Review), to “sardonic” (Indie Opera Podcast), “the perfect foil” (Voce di Meche), and “the quintessential self-adoring snob” (Parterre Box).

 

The 2026-2027 season includes world premieres of both William Grant Still’s Costaso with Opera Vermont and Laura Jobin-Acosta’s The Musicians of Brementown with Prelude Opera, and a West Coast debut in Le nozze di Figaro with Tacoma Opera. 

 

His recent performances include Sotto Voce (Alfio, Cavalleria Rusticana | Siméon, L’Enfant Prodigue), Opera Vermont (Colline, La bohéme | Angelotti, Tosca), Festival d’art vocal de Montréal (Falke, La Chauve-Souris | Baritone, Four-Note Opera), Don’t Tell Mama (Wolf, Into the Woods), Opera Theatre of the Rockies (Eugene Johnson, Blind Injustice), New Rochelle Opera (Pagliacci | Die Fledermaus), Opera Project Columbus (Un ballo in maschera), Opera Acadia (La Traviata), and Connecticut Virtuosi Opera (Carmen). He collaborated frequently with Bronx Opera (Guglielmo, Così fan tutte | Leporello, Don Giovanni | Peter, Hansel and Gretel), and Utopia Opera (Wells, The Sorcerer | Ludwig, The Grand Duke), with other roles including Papageno, Sprecher, Dandini, Schaunard, and the titles in Venus and Adonis, and Sweeney Todd. 

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The Bronx native recently sang the baritone solos in Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem with Buffalo’s Avanti Orchestra, Mendelssohn’s Die erste Walpurgisnacht with the Westchester Oratorio Society, and Handel’s Messiah with Bronx Concert Singers. He has also appeared with The New York Philharmonic at Lincoln Center (Done Made My Vow), their MetLiveArts series (The Mother of Us All), with the Center for Contemporary Opera at National Sawdust (We, the Innumerable), and at WQXR/ WNYC's Greene Space (24@44). He has performed in recital with The Shivers Fund, at the Montpelier Arts Center as a winner of their Classical Recital Competition, in film with Camerataworks (Julie), Killer Queen Opera (Poppea), and the Brooklyn Telemann Chamber Society (Phèdre), and chorally at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Madison Square Garden, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and elsewhere.