Igor Vieira - Baritone

CURRENT & UPCOMING ENGAGEMENTS

Theseus	A Midsummer Night's Dream	Festival Opera/Walnut Creek (USA)	2008
Mr. Peachum	The Three Penny Opera	Santa Cruz Orchestra (USA)	2008
Valentin	Faust	Amazonian Opera Festival (Brazil)	2009

PRESS ACCLAIM

As Tomsky in Pikovaya Dama - 2008:

"Igor Vieira as Tomsky specially contributed to this fine ensemble piece"

The San Francisco Classical Voice - Janos Gereban

"Igor Vieira did an splendid job as Tomsky."

The Palo Alto Weekly - James Kirby

As Schaunard in La Bohème - 2007:

"Igor Vieira's high, bright baritone made him a perfect Schaunard"

The San Francisco Classical Voice - Janos Gereban

As Le Dancaïre in Carmen - 2007:

"Igor Vieira, whose artistry has shown him worthy of far larger roles, was in fine voice as Le Dancaïre. Singing beautifully, he was not only far more animated than many of his fellows, but also overshadowed his cohort Le Remendado."

The San Francisco Classical Voice - Jason Victor Serinus

As Junius in The Rape of Lucretia - 2007:

"Vieira presented a fine voice and as usual made an impression with his versatility and commanding presence."

Opera News Online - Jason Victor Serinus

As Mercutio in Roméo et Juliette - 2007:

"Igor Vieira did a marvelous job of parsing and making sense of Shakespeare's language and was the best singer in the cast."

The San Francisco Classical Voice - Michael Zwiebach

"Baritone Igor Vieira was a bawdy and humorous Mercutio"

The Berkeley Daily Planet - James Roibles

"The best vocalizing of the night was done by Igor Vieira as Mercutio. The Brazilian baritone was so good, one really hated to see him die."

Contracosta Times - Georgia Rowe

As Ford in Falstaff - 2006:

"The highlight of the evening both vocally and dramatically was the excellent Brazilian baritone Igor Vieira. He parodied the jealous husband, Ford, with vocal mastery, and precise Italianate style. He raged and fumed over the suspected adultery of Falstaff with his wife in the most farcical manner, perfectly timing gesture, text, and music."

The Berkeley Daily Planet - Olivia Stapp

"A vocal standout: Igor Vieira, as Ford, had the best male voice in the cast, strong and resonant, in keeping with Ford's overbearing character. He phrased well and his showpiece aria was one of the vocal highpoints of the show. "

The San Francisco Classical Voice - Michael Zwiebach

"What Parks lacked, the superb Igor Vieira provided as Ford. The Brazilian baritone used his fine voice with great intelligence, thorough animation and pinpoint projection of text"

Opera News Online - Jason Victor Serinus

As Angelotti in Tosca - 2006:

"Igor Vieira (Angelotti), an excellent performer, was in wonderful voice."

The San Francisco Classical Voice - Michael Zwiebach

As Timothy in Chrysalis (World Premier) - 2006:

"Brazilian baritone Igor Vieira was a fine Timothy, his ebullience most amusing after his Hathor application…"

Opera News Online - Jason Victor Serinus

"Baritone Igor Vieira was exuberant as Timothy."

The Arts in San Francisco - Paul Hertelendy

"Igor Vieira as Ellen's paramour, Timothy-dismissed by rampaging Nelle-inverts his romantic persona in a triumphant display of his own personal cosmetic branding in one of the more outrageously amusing theatrical coups."

The Berkeley Daily Planet - Ken Bullock

As Papageno in Die Zauberflöte - 2005:

"The star of the proceedings was Igor Vieira, whose show-stealing Papageno combined beautiful, mellifluous vocalism with a true gift for comedy. Vieira's winning physicality, which included leaps onto steps and twirls suggestive of dance or gymnastics training, was so engaging that even Moscovich's reduction of "Bei Männern" to a mechanical exercise and Papageno's other arias and duets to prosaic expressions could not undermine the baritone's magnetic performance."

Opera News Online - Jason Victor Serinus

"Baritone Igor Vieira is endearing as Papageno, the garrulous bird catcher."

The Richter Scale - Judy Richter

"From the many memorable qualities this production presented, the superb comic timing of Igor Vieira's Papageno linger most in memory."

The Tri-Valley Herald - Keith Kreitman

As Theseus in A Midsummer Night's Dream - Lyric Opera of Kansas City - 2004:

"Igor Vieira's potent, forward tone was perfect for Theseus."

Opera News Online - Scott Cantrell

As Lamparilla in El Barberillo de Lavapiés - 2004:

"This composer's hair-cutter is likewise as irreverent, inventive and indefatigable as the others, especially as sung by Igor Vieira, a young Brazilian baritone, who is as much at ease with the stage as he is with his singing. His opening aria, "Yo fui paje de un Obispo" (I once was a page for a Bishop) was a sly pleasure, and his later catalog of duties ("to coif, cut, and curl!") was equally comic and robust. Vieira has sung Donizetti's Dottore Dulcamara, and he obviously has brought those musical skills to this role."

The San Francisco Classical Voice - James Keolker

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Mr. Vieira as Schaunard

OPERA EXPERIENCE

Schaunard	La Bohème	San Francisco Lyric Opera	2008
Guglielmo	Cosi fan Tutte	West Bay Opera	2008
Schaunard	La Bohème	Fremont Opera	2007
Le Dancaïre	Carmen	Festival Opera/Walnut Creek	2007
Mercutio	Roméo et Juliette	Berkeley Opera	2007
Tomsky	Pikovaya Dama	West Bay Opera	2007
Fígaro	Il Barbiere di Siviglia	Teatro Barakaldo (Bilbao-Spain)	2006
Ford	Falstaff	Berkeley Opera	2006
Timothy	Chrysalis (World Premier)	Berkeley Opera	2006
Lescaut	Manon Lescaut	West Bay Opera	2006
Junius	The Rape of Lucretia	San Francisco Lyric Opera	2006
Simone	Gianni Schicchi	New Jersey Opera Theater	2006
Papageno	Die Zauberflöte	West Bay Opera	2005
Dandini	La Cenerentola (cover)	Lyric Opera of Kansas City	2005
Theseus	A Midsummer Night's Dream	Lyric Opera of Kansas City	2004
Mercutio	Roméo et Juliette (cover)	Lyric Opera of Kansas City	2003
Schaunard	La Bohème	Lyric Opera of Kansas City	2002
Eisenstein	Die Fledermaus	Teatro Municipal of Rio de Janeiro	2001
Don Giovanni	Don Giovanni	Rio de Janeiro City Opera	2000

Mr. Vieira as Papageno

CONCERT & ORATORIO REPERTOIRE

Bach, J. S.	Cantata #78
	Cantata #98
	Ich Habe Genug
Brahms	Requiem
Fauré	Requiem
Händel	Alexander's Feast
	Dettinger Te Deum
	Judas Maccabeus
	Messiah
Mendelssohn	Elijah
Mozart	Coronation Mass
	Mass in C minor
	Requiem
Orff	Carmina Burana

Mr. Vieira as Guglielmo in Così fan tutte

OPERATIC REPERTOIRE

Bellini	I Puritani	Riccardo	3
	Il Pirata	Ernesto	3
Bizet	Carmen	Le Dancaire	1
		Escamillo	2
		Morales	1
	Les Pêcheurs du Perles	Zurga	3
Britten	A Midsummer Night's Dream	Bottom	1
		Theseus	1
		Demetrius	3
	The Rape of Lucretia	Junius	1
		Tarquinius	3
	Billy Budd	Billy Budd	3
Debussy	Pelléas et Mélisande	Pelleas	3
Delibes	Lakmé	Frédéric	3
Donizetti	Don Pasquale	Malatesta	2
	Il Campanello	Ernesto	1
	L'Elisir d'Amore	Belcore	1
		Dulcamara	1
	La Favorita	Alfonso	3
Gluck	Iphigénie en Turide	Orestes	3
Gomes	Il Guarany	Gonzalez	1
	Colombo	Colombo	1
Gounod	Faust	Valentin	3
	Roméo et Juliette	Mercutio	1
Händel	Giulio Cesare	Cesare	3
		Ptolomeo	2
	Rinaldo	Argante	3
	Rodelinda	Garibaldo	2
Humperdinck	Hänsel und Gretel	Peter	1
Leoncavallo	I Pagliacci	Silvio	1
		Tonio	3
Massenet	Manon	De Brétigny	1
		Lescaut	3
	Don Quichotte	Sancho	2
	Werther	Albert	3
Menotti	Amahl and the Night Visitors	Melchior	1
	The Old Maid and the Thief	Bob	1
Mozart	Così fan tutte	Guglielmo	1
		Don Alfonso	1
	Don Giovanni	Don Giovanni	1
		Leporello	1
		Masetto	2
	La Clemenza di Titto	Publio	1
	Idomeneo	Arbace	1
	Le Nozze di Figaro	Count	1
	Die Zauberflöte	Papageno	1
Poulenc	Les Dialogues des Carmelites	L'Aumonier	1
Puccini	La Bohème	Schaunard	1
		Marcello	2
	Gianni Schicchi	Simone	1
		Schicchi	1
Manon	Lescaut	Lescaut	1
	La Fanciulla del West	Sid	1
	La Rondine	Rambaldo	1
	Turandot	Ping	2
	Tosca	Angelotti	1
	Madama Butterfly	Yamadori	1
		Sharpless	3
Purcell	Dido and Aeneas	Aeneas	1
		Sailor	1
Rossini	Il Barbiere di Siviglia	Figaro	1
	La Cenerentola	Dandini	2
	Il Turco in Italia	Poeta	2
	L'Italiana in Italia	Taddeo	3
Strauss, J.	Die Fledermaus	Eisenstein	1
		Falke	1
Strauss, R.	Arabella	Mandrika	3
	Ariadne auf Naxos	Harlekin	3
	Die Rosenkavalier	Faninal	3
	Salome	First Nazaren	1
		Third Jew	1
Tchaikovsky	Eugene Onegin	Onegin	3
Pikovaya	Dama	Tomsky	1
		Yeletsky	2
Verdi	Don Carlos	Posa	3
	Falstaff	Ford	1
	Rigoletto	Marullo	1
		Ceprano	1
	La Traviata	Germont	1
		Grenville	1
		Marquise	1
Ward	The Crucible	John Proctor	1
		Putnam	1
Wagner	Tannhauser	Wolfram	3
	Tristan und Isolde	Melot	1
Weill	The Three Penny Opera	Mr. Peachum	1
		Tiger Brown	1

1	performed
2	completely prepared
3	in preparation or future role

Mr. Vieira as Lescaut in Manon Lescaut

CHAMBER MUSIC REPERTOIRE

Copland	American Folk Songs
Fauré	Poèmes d'un jour
Liszt	Sonetti di Petrarca
Poulenc	Chansons Gaillardes
Ropartz	Quattre Poèmes
Vaughan Williams	Five Mystical Songs
	Sea Pictures
	Songs of Travel
Songs By:
	Bellini
	Brahms
	Donizetti
	Glinka
	Liszt
	Rachmaninoff
	Rossini
	Schubert
	Schumann
	Strauss
	Tchaikovsky
	Weill
and Brazilian Art Songs

PRIZES, AWARDS AND APPRENTICESHIPS

Festival Artist	New Jersey Opera Theater Summer Fest - USA	2006
Second Place	East Bay Opera League Voice Competition - USA	2006
Kaplan Foundation Award (Outstanding Apprentice)	Lyric Opera of Kansas City - USA	2004
Apprenticeship	Lyric Opera of Kansas City Apprentice Program	2002-2005
World Finalist	Luciano Pavarotti Voice Competition - USA	1995

CONDUCTORS

Andrew Kurtz, Jonathan Khuner, Barbara Day Turner, Karen Keltner, Ward Holmquist, Joseph Illick, Mattias Kuntscz, James Caraher, José Luis Moscovich, José Antonio Irastorza, Luis Malheiro, David Sloss

STAGE DIRECTORS

Marc Astafan, Bill Fabris, Garnett Bruce, Tim Ocel, Bernard Uzan, Daniel Helfgot, David Ostwald, Andre Heller, Michael Scarola, Heather Carolo, Doug Nagel

LANGUAGES

Portuguese, English, Italian, Spanish, French

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