About
EVAN BRAVOS
Biography.
Marked as a “talent to watch” (Howard Reich, Chicago Tribune), baritone Evan Bravos has received critical acclaim for his “lovely lyric baritone” (Opera News).
In the 2024-25 season, Bravos has several featured performances, including the premiere of a song cycle The Pure and Impure by composer Elizabeth Doyle at Piano-Forte Studios in Chicago. He reprises his role as Kenny Kincaid in The Cook-Off with New Orleans Opera, sings Vaughan Williams: Sea Symphony with the Helena Symphony, and enjoys several perormances of Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem including with the Apollo Chorus (Chicago), The Grace Chorale (Brooklyn NY) and the Evanston Symphony.
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Highlights for the 2023-24 season included revisiting the role of Count Almaviva, Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro in Columbia, South Carolina (Christopher James Ray); Countess’ Lackey/Ivan Ivanovich, Shostakovich: The Nose with Chicago Opera Theater (Lidiya Yankovskaya and Francesca Zambello); a featured performance of Schubert: Der Winterreise for Opera Up Close; a debut with Helena Symphony on Rachmaninoff: The Bells of Ecstasy (Allan R. Scott) and Vaughn Williams: Five Mystical Songs (Joseph Welch) and two premieres with Jake Heggie for the Chicago Opera Theater premiere of his and Gene Scherer’s new opera, Before It All Goes Dark.
In the 2022-23 season, saw Bravos in Boston for Let’s Celebrate! at WGBH studios (White Snake Projects), Silvio, I Pagliacci, (Opera Tampa) and Kenny Kincaid in Okpebholo & Campbell The Cook-Off (Chicago Opera Theater). In the 2021-22 season, he sang in Kaminsky, Reed and Campbell’s, As One (Opera Santa Barbara) as Hannah Before, El Dancaïro in Carmen alongside Jamie Barton and Stephanie Blythe, and “sang winningly” (Opera News) as Clay in the world premiere of Matthew Recio and Royce Vavrek’s opera The Puppy Episode (COT). Other favorites include Riff, West Side Story (New Philharmonic Opera); Maximilian, Candide (Ravinia Festival); George Jones, Weill's Street Scene, and Masetto, Don Giovanni (Virginia Opera); Inman, Higdon's Cold Mountain (Music Academy of the West); and Tom Joad, Gordon's The Grapes of Wrath.
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House credits include Sarasota Opera, San Diego Opera, Central City Opera, Aspen Music Festival, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, and Lyric Opera of Chicago. In concert, he has sung with the symphonies of Santa Fe, Milwaukee, Madison, Hawaii, and Colorado. As a recitalist, Bravos has sung as a Vocal Fellow at Ravinia Festival’s Steans Music Institute, the Collaborative Arts Institute of Chicago, and Horto Music Festival in Pelion, Greece. Bravos recently completed the Doctorate of Musical Arts at Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music. He is an Artist Faculty and Associate Program Director of Opera at Roosevelt University’s Chicago College of Performing Arts.