Barber of Seville Performer Bios

Igor Vieira (Dr. Falke) is hailed by Opera News Magazine as “superb,” and “show-stealing.” Mr. Vieira has sung 48 different operatic roles, including Dulcamara (L’elisir d’Amore), Eisenstein (Die Fledermaus), Lescaut (Manon Lescaut), Ford (Falstaff) and the title role in Don Giovanni. He has sung with Teatro Municipal of Rio de Janeiro, Amazonian Opera Festival, Belém Opera Festival, Opera du Villecroze, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Opera Theater of Philadelphia, West Bay Opera, Berkeley Opera, SF Lyric Opera, Rimrock Opera, and Festival Opera of Walnut Creek. He was a world finalist of the 1995 Luciano Pavarotti Voice Competition in Philadelphia, a recipient of the Margareth Tudor Award (Princeton) for 2 years and the Kaplan Foundation Award (Kansas City) for outstanding artistry. As concert soloist, Mr. Vieira has performed Handel’s “Messiah” with Vermont’s Rutherford’s Symphony, Fauré’s “Requiem” with the Orchestre du Provence in Villecroze, France and Orff’s “Carmina Burana” with the  National Symphony in Bogotá, Colombia. He has a BA in Music from Westminster Choir College in Princeton and a MM in Voice Performance from the University of Missouri.