About
Brian Anderson recently made a triumphant return to Florida Grand Opera for his first performances of Belmonte in Die Entführung aus dem Serail. He has appeared with Florida Grand Opera as Ferrando in Cosí fan tutte; Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, and as Johnny Inkslinger in Paul Bunyan, following his debut there as Count Belfiore in Mark Lamos’s staging of La finta giardiniera.
He made his Palm Beach Opera debut as Lindoro in L’italiana in Algeri; his Dallas Opera debut as Scaramuccio in Ariadne auf Naxos; his Glimmerglass Opera debut in the dual roles of Fenney/Hugo in Richard Rodney Bennett’s The Mines of Sulphur; his Opera Omaha debut as Johnny Inkslinger, and returned to Opera Omaha for Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia; and his New York City Opera debut as Count Belfiore, followed by a return to New York City Opera as Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni. Other recent appearances include the tenor soloist in Liszt’s Missa Solemnis with the American Symphony Orchestra; Don Ottavio with the Westfield Symphony Orchestra; Nemorino in L’Elisir d’amore with Sonoma Opera; Tybalt in Roméo et Juliette with Florida Grand Opera; Flavio in Norma with the Concert Association of Florida; and Nencio in Haydn’s L’infedelta delusa with the American Symphony Orchestra. In addition, he covered Ernesto in Don Pasquale with New York City Opera.
Future engagements include his debut with the Opera Company of Philadelphia as Jaquino in Fidelio; and his debut with Chicago Opera Theatre as Lechmere in Owen Wingrave.
As an Adler Fellow, Brian Anderson made his San Francisco Opera debut as the Second Priest in Die Zauberflote and has since appeared with the Company in Otello, Ariadne auf Naxos, Rigoletto, Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, Carmen and Simon Boccanegra. He sang Belfiore in San Francisco Opera Center‘s production of La finta giardiniera, Linfea in the Opera Center’s Showcase production of Cavalli’s La Calisto and Mr. Upfold in the Opera Center’s Showcase of Albert Herring. A Merola Opera Program participant in 1999 and 2000, he performed the roles of Eisenstein and Alfred in Western Opera Theater‘s national tour of Die Fledermaus, and the role of Don Ottavio in the national tour of Don Giovanni.
Brian Anderson made his professional debut in 1998 as Cassio in Verdi’s Otello with Rockland Opera, and, in the summer of that year, appeared as an apprentice artist with Santa Fe Opera. Anderson participated in the prestigious 2000 MacAllister Awards competition and was a finalist in the 2002 Eleanor Lieber Competition at Portland Opera.
Upon graduating with a BFA in Theatre Arts from Boston University, the Massachusetts native moved to New York to attend the Mannes College of Music, where he sang Tebaldo in Bellini’s I Capuleti e i Montecchi. He continues to study voice in New York with Arthur Levy.