Hailed by Opera News as “superb,” and “show-stealing,” Brazilian-American baritone Igor Vieira made his professional debut at age seventeen singing Dancaïre in Bizet’s Carmen.

 Subsequent performances have included the title roles in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Debussy’s Pelleas et Melisande, Verdi’s Rigoletto and Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia, as well as Ford in Verdi’s Falstaff, Tonio in Leoncavallo’s I Pagliacci, Germont in Verdi’s La Traviata, and most recently Figaro in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro in a triumphant debut at the Solis Opera House in Montevideo, Uruguay.

Mr. Vieira has professionally performed 117 different operatic roles in 11 countries across the globe, with such companies as the San Francisco Opera, the Theatro Municipal of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Sacramento Opera, Phoenix Concert Hall (Japan), Hawaii Opera Theater, Teatro Barakaldo (Spain) and Lyric Opera of Kansas City to name a few, as well as the Opera Festivals of Manaus (Brazil), Festival del Sole (USA) and Bratislava (Slovakia).

In the concert and oratorio fields, Mr. Vieira has performed with the National Symphonies of Colombia (Orff’s Carmina Burana), Brazil (Orff’s Carmina Burana, and Beethoven’s 9th Symphony), as well as the Prague Philharmonic (Dvorak’s Requiem at the world-famous Dvorak Hall) and the San Francisco Symphony Chorus at Davis Hall (Orff’s Carmina Burana).

Mr. Vieira is a world finalist of the Fifth Luciano Pavarotti Voice Competition in Philadelphia, and can be seen as Gubetta next to Renee Fleming on the DVD of the San Francisco Opera production of Donizetti’s Lucrezia Borgia, released by the Euroarts label.