Brian Mulligan

Irish-American baritone Brian Mulligan studied at Yale University and at the Juilliard School and works regularly with the world’s leading opera houses and orchestras. In 2018/19 he made his role debut as Mandryka (Arabella) at the San Francisco Opera, sang Zurga (Les Pêcheurs de perles) for the Zurich Opera and Guglielmo in a concert performance of Puccini’s Le Villi with the London Philharmonic and made his debut with the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam as Sharpless (Madama Butterfly) and as Golaud (Pelléas et Mélisande).

His German roles include Amfortas (Parsifal), Gunther (Götterdämmerung), Donner (Das Rheingold), the Herald (Lohengrin) and Peter (Hänsel und Gretel). Among his planned role debuts are Barak (Die Frau ohne Schatten), Jochanaan (Salome), Pizarro (Fidelio) and the title role in Der fliegende Holländer.

His Italian repertoire encompasses Enrico Ashton (Lucia di Lammermoor), Marcello (La bohème), and Verdi’s Renato, Paolo Albiani, Count di Luna, Macbeth, Amonasro and Ford. In 2019/20 he is making his Houston Grand Opera debut as Rigoletto.

In French he may be heard as Valentin (Faust), Golaud, Chorèbe (Les Troyens), Nélusko (L’Africaine) and the title role in Ambroise Thomas’s Hamlet.

Brian Mulligan’s English-language roles include Balstrode (Peter Grimes), Sweeney Todd, Prospero in Thomas Adès’s The Tempest, the title roles in Nixon in China and The Death of Klinghoffer and John Proctor in Robert Ward’s The Crucible. He has also enjoyed great personal success in a number of world premieres that include James Primosch’s Songs for Adam and Greg Spears’s song cycle Walden at the Kennedy Center in Washington. In 2016 he was acclaimed by critics for his outstanding portrayal of Jack Torrance in Paul Moravec’s The Shining at the Minnesota Opera in Minneapolis.

Brian Mulligan appears regularly at major international opera houses, notably the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the San Francisco Opera, the Lyric Opera of Chicago and the opera houses in Amsterdam, Antwerp, Frankfurt and Zurich as well as the Vienna, Saito Kinen, Wexford and Aspen Festivals. He is making his Salzburg Festival debut as Créon in Enescu’s Œdipe.