Bass
Recipient of the Mikhail Geilikman Award
Brandon Morales, Bass-Baritone, has performed with opera companies all over the US – stretching from the Pacific northwest’s Portland Opera to Virginia Opera on the East coast. Morales has recently completed two years with Virginia Opera’s Heardon Foundation Emerging Artist’s Program with highlights including Bartolo in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Peter Quince in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and the Mother in Weill’s Seven Deadly Sins. A graduate of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music, he has been highly active in the Ohio area performing with Dayton Opera, NANO Works, Cincinnati Chamber Opera, Queen City Opera, Cincinnati College-Conservatory, Cincinnati Opera, participated in Toledo Opera’s Resident Artist program and the Wagner Society of Cincinnati. He will soon move to Phoenix to join the Marion Roose Pullin Arizona Opera Studio, where he be featured as Don Alfonso in Così Fan Tutte, as well as performing his dream role as the title character in Le Nozze di Figaro. A native of San Antonio, TX, Morales currently enjoys the vagabond life of performing, but misses his faithful cat, Elsie.