Brian J. Alvarado "sings with a liquid baritone of great charm," "a highly attractive legato," and "precise patter elocution” (Parterre Box). His “sardonic” portrayal of Leporello in Don Giovanni (IndieOpera Podcast) has been heard at Bronx Opera, Long Island Lyric Opera, Lighthouse Opera, and Light Opera of New Jersey (Cover).
Other credits include both The Magic Flute’s Papageno (Opera Theatre of Montclair) and Speaker (Barn Opera), Dandini in La Cenerentola (Bay View Music Festival, Opera Theatre of Montclair), Schaunard in La bohéme (Regina Opera, Amore Opera), the Badger/Parson in Cunning Little Vixen and Le Baron de Pictordu in Cendrillon (dell’Arte Opera Ensemble), and the title roles in The Sorcerer (Utopia Opera, G&S Society of NY), Venus and Adonis (New Camerata Opera; Cover), and Sweeney Todd (City Island Theatre).
His solo concert work includes Handel’s Messiah, Bach’s BWV 147, Keiser’s Markuspassion, Haydn’s Nicolaimesse, Mozart’s Vesperae solennes de confessore, Schubert’s Mass in G, and Gounod’s Messe solennelle de Sainte-Cécile. He has appeared chorally in Juilliard/New York Philharmonic’s co-production of Mother of Us All at the Met Museum of Art, Center for Contemporary Opera’s workshop of Niloufar Nourbakhsh’s We, the Innumerable at National Sawdust, and the New York Philharmonic’s performance of Adolphus Hailstork’s Done Made My Vow in David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center. He makes debuts this season as Frank in Die Fledermaus with New Rochelle Opera, and Betto in Gianni Schicchi with SAS Concert Opera.