Brandon Jovanovich (United States)

Tenor — Don Carlos

HGO Performances: Turiddu in Cavalleria rusticana (2008).

About the Artist: Winner of the 2007 Richard Tucker Award, Jovanovich will, in addition to his role debut in the title role of Don Carlos at Houston Grand Opera this season, appear as Don Jose in Carmen with Deutsche Oper Berlin and Bayerische Staatsoper, as Bacchus in Ariadne auf Naxos with Lyric Opera of Chicago, and as Cavaradossi in Tosca with Oper Köln. In concert, he appears at the Hollywood Bowl performing Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and Choral Fantasy, both with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, as well as with the Gürzenich Orchester Köln performing Mahler’s Eighth Symphony. Jovanovich’ 2010 – 11 season included performances as Pinkerton in Madame Butterfly (Santa Fe Opera, San Francisco Opera debut), Don Jose in Carmen (Gran Teatre del Liceu, Lyric Opera of Chicago, and the Metropolitan Opera), and in the premiere of Senso by Marco Tutino (Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Italy). He also traveled to Beijing, China to perform the role, and ended the season at San Francisco Opera with role debuts in Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen as Froh in Rheingold, and as Siegmund in Die Walküre. The 2009 – 10 season was marked by Jovanovich’s Metropolitan opera debut as Don José in a new production of Carmen and his role debut as Bacchus in Boston Lyric Opera’s Ariadne auf Naxos. He appeared as Luigi in San Francisco Opera’s Tabarro, as Boris in Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Katya Kabanova, and as Pinkerton in Dallas Opera’s Madama Butterfly. Highlights of previous seasons include performances at Glyndebourne Festival; the Washington National, Los Angeles, Florida Grand, Dallas, Palm Beach, Austin Lyric, New York City, Minnesota, Seattle, and Vlaamse operas; Teatro di San Carlo di Napoli; Opera Theatre of St. Louis; l’Opéra National de Bordeaux; Staatstheater Stuttgart; Bayrische Staatsoper; Teatro San Carlo di Napoli; l’Opéra de Lille; and La Scala. In summer 2007, Jovanovich sang Cavaradossi in Tosca with the Bregenzer Festspiele, selections from which can be heard on the soundtrack of the James Bond film, Quantum of Solace. A native of Billings, Montana, Jovanovich received his training at Northern Arizona University and at Manhattan School of Music. He was twice a New York City district winner in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. Jovanovich was a founding member of the Seattle Young Artists program in 1998, and was a member of the Santa Fe Opera Apprentice program in 1996 – 97 where he was given the Anna Mackay Case Award. He also won the Crawley Award from the Young Patronesses of the Opera/Florida Grand Opera Voice Competition and received the ARIA Award in 2004.