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Errin Duane Brooks

tenor

Grammy Award-winner Errin Duane Brooks is becoming one of the most sought-after tenors in the industry. Last season's engagements included covering Calaf in Puccini's Turandot and reprising Adult Nathan in Terrence Blanchard's Fire Shut Up in My Bones, both with The Metropolitan Opera; Rodolfo in Puccini's La bohème with Port Angeles Symphony; and his role début as Otello with Vashon Opera. Next season, Mr. Brooks will return to The Metropolitan Opera to sing the First Priest/Armored Man in Die Zauberflöte, and he'll sing Pinkerton in Divaria Productions' Madama Butterfly.

Recently at The Metropolitan Opera, Mr. Brooks covered the title character in Verdi's Otello and sang the First Armored Man in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, the First Noble in Wagner's Lohengrin, and the High Priest in Mozart's Idomeneo. He also recently made several débuts, including his role début as Bacchus in Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos in house débuts with both Vashon Opera and Lakes Area Music Festival; his company début with Des Moines Metro Opera as Robbins in Porgy and Bess; and his off-Broadway début as Mr. Charles in Ricky Ian Gordon and Lynn Nottage's Intimate Apparel at Lincoln Center Theater. Mr. Brooks has sung Mingo in Porgy and Bess and Adult Nathan in Fire Shut Up in My Bones in multiple seasons with The Met, as well as Normanno in Lucia di Lammermoor. He also joined Hudson Valley International Festival of the Voice to sing Canio in Pagliacci and Connecticut Lyric Opera to sing Tristan in Tristan und Isolde.

An avid fan of new music and great music that is rarely done, Mr. Brooks was part of The Mile-Long Opera: a biography of 7 o'clock by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang and acclaimed poets Anne Carson and Claudia Rankine, performed on New York's High Line. He made his much-anticipated return to New Amsterdam Opera as Jean de Baptîste in Massenet's Hérodiade, and that same month, he made his début with American Opera Projects in their world premiere of The Stonewall Operas, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots.

Mr. Brooks is also becoming well versed in concert repertoire, performing in such works as the Schoenberg arrangement of Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde with Washington Heights Chamber Orchestra; Brahms' Liebeslieder Waltzes with the National Chorale at David Geffen Hall; Haydn's Lord Nelson Mass, Vaughan-Williams' Serenade to Music, and Bernstein's Chichester Psalms at Carnegie Hall; Mozart's Symphony No. 23 in D Major with Orchestra Society New Jersey; and Verdi's Requiem with Utah Festival Opera. Competition successes for Mr. Brooks include The Sullivan Foundation Awards, the Wagner Society of New York, the Giulio Gari Foundation International Voice Competition, and most notably, earning the George London-Kirsten Flagstad Grand Prize Award for promising Wagnerian Singer in the George and Nora London Foundation Competition.

Graduating with honors, Errin Duane received his Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance with a minor in Business from Madonna University, his Master of Music in Vocal Performance from Bowling Green State University, and an Artist Diploma in Opera from Roosevelt University.