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Igor Vieira
Igor Vieira, baritone, sings the role of Guglielmo in Così fan tutte. Previous roles with West Bay Opera include Count Tomsky (The Queen of Spades), Lescaut (Manon
Lescaut), and Papageno (The
Magic Flute).
Mr. Vieira made his professional debut in his native Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
at age 17 singing the role of Le Dancaire in Carmen. Later roles
include Dulcamara (L’elisir d’amore), Eisenstein (Die
Fledermaus), the title role in Don Giovanni, and Ford (Falstaff).
He has sung 45 different operatic roles, including three world premiers,
with companies including the Teatro Municipal of Rio de Janeiro, the Amazonian
Opera Festival, the Belém Opera Festival, Opera du Villecroze, Lyric
Opera of Kansas City, Opera Theater of Philadelphia, Berkeley Opera,
Festival Opera,
San
Francisco Lyric Opera, Rimrock Opera, and New Jersey Opera Theater. He was a world finalist
in the 1995 Luciano Pavarotti Voice Competition in Philadelphia, and received
the Margaret Tudor Award (Princeton) for two consecutive years and the Kaplan
Foundation Award (Kansas City) for outstanding artistry.
