Brian Gilbertson made his operatic debut in Vienna with the Vienna Kammeroper in 1985.
A Tenor with considerable acting skills (over 40 roles).
His many Roles range from the lyrical Ernesto in Donizetti's Don Pasquale to wonderful characters like Goro in Madama Butterfly or Mime in Wagner's Ring Cycle to the lyrical coloratura of Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni or toe-tapping tenors from Gilbert & Sullivan.
On the concert platform, he has had major successes including oratorio...
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Worked in principal roles with internationally renowned music directors, including Richard Armstrong, Richard Bonynge, Carlo Felice Cillario, Jaques Delacôte, John DeMain, Jeffrey Tate and others....
And with directors, Bruce Beresford, Michael Blakemore, Stuart Maunder, Keith Michell, Moffatt Oxenbould, Simon Phillips, Pierre Strosser, Keith Warner and others...
Performance colleagues in opera include: Elizabeth Campbell, Joan Carden, Conal Coad, Christopher Doig, Malcolm Donnelly, Dame Malvina Majors, Janis Martin, Yvonne Minton, Barry Mora, Patricia Payne, Marylin Schau, John Shaw, Lyndon Terracine, Yoko Watanabe, John Wegner and others...
In Musicals and lighter theatre works colleagues include: Jonathon Biggins, Rhonda Burchmore, Venetta Fields, Dobbs Franks, Keith Michell, Dennis Olsen and others....
Companies: Opera Australia, Opera Queensland, State Opera of South Australia, Victoria State Opera, St Pölten State Theatre; Vienna Kammeroper, Palm Beach Festival, Schönbrunn Palace Theatre Vienna, Australian Broadcasting Commission, Victorian Arts Centre, Adelaide Festival Centre Trust and Darwin Centre for Performing Arts. Various concert venues in Europe and Australia as Tenor soloist.
Operatic Roles include: Froh (Das Rheingold:The Ring), Mime (Siegfried: The Ring), Don Ottavio, (Don Giovanni); Ernesto, (Don Pasquale); Almaviva, (Il Barbiere di Sivilgia), L'Abate di Chazeuil, (Adriana Lecouvreur); Wenzel (Die Verkaufte Braut); Goro, (Madama Butterfly); Spoletta, (Tosca); Monostatos, (II flauto magico); Normanno, (Lucia di Lammermoor); Malcolm, (Macbeth); Gastone, (La Traviata); The Witch (Hansel & Gretel); Remendado, (Carmen); Roderigo, (Otello); Young Servant, (Elektra); Borsa, (Rigoletto); Sid, (Sid the Serpent); Don Curzio, (Figaro); Benoir, (La Boheme); Bardolph, (Falstaff); Tenor, (Trouble in Tahiti) Edmondo, (Manon Lescaut).
Languages: Performed in Afrikaans, Czech, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Sotho, Singalese, Thai and Zulu.
Vocal Training: Maestro Franz Schuch-Tovini,Vienna.
Dramatic Training: Hochschule fur Musik Darstellender Kunst in Vienna.