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Biography

Marked as a “talent to watch” (Howard Reich, Chicago Tribune), Baritone Evan Bravos has received critical

acclaim for his “lovely lyric baritone” (Opera News).

In the 2024-25 season, Bravos has several featured performances, including the premiere of a song cycle The

Pure and Impure by composer Elizabeth Doyle at Piano-Forte Studios in Chicago; a reprise of a role he

premiered, Kenny Kincaid, in Okpebholo & Campbell’s: The Cook-Off with New Orleans Opera; a

workshop of The Feast of the Hunger Moon, a new musical by Dori Erwin Collins; Vaughan Williams: Sea

Symphony with the Helena Symphony and several engagements singing Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem

including with the Apollo Chorus (Chicago), The Grace Chorale (Brooklyn NY) and the Evanston

Symphony.

Highlights for the 2023-24 season included revisiting the role of Count Almaviva, Mozart: Le Nozze di

Figaro in Columbia, South Carolina (Christopher James Ray); Countess’ Lackey/Ivan Ivanovich,

Shostakovich: The Nose with Chicago Opera Theater (Lidiya Yankovskaya and Francesca Zambello); a

featured performance of Schubert: Der Winterreise for Opera Up Close; a debut with Helena Symphony on

Rachmaninoff: The Bells of Ecstasy (Allan R. Scott) and Vaughn Williams: Five Mystical Songs (Joseph

Welch) and two performances with Jake Heggie for the Chicago Opera Theater premiere of his and

Gene Scherer’s new opera, Before It All Goes Dark.

In the 2022-23 season, saw Bravos in Boston for Let’s Celebrate! at WGBH studios (White Snake Projects),

Silvio, I Pagliacci, (Opera Tampa) and Kenny Kincaid in Okpebholo & Campbell The Cook-Off (Chicago

Opera Theater). In the 2021-22 season, he sang in Kaminsky, Reed and Campbell’s as Hannah Before, As

One (Opera Santa Barbara), El Dancaïro, Carmen alongside Jamie Barton and Stephanie Blythe, and “sang

winningly” (Opera News) in the world premiere of Matthew Recio and Royce Vavrek’s operaas Clay, The

Puppy Episode (COT). Other favorites include Riff, West Side Story (New Philharmonic Opera);

Maximilian, Candide (Ravinia Festival); George Jones, Weill: Street Scene, and Masetto, Don

Giovanni (Virginia Opera); Inman, Higdon: Cold Mountain (Music Academy of the West); and Tom

Joad, Gordon: The Grapes of Wrath.

House credits include Sarasota Opera, San Diego Opera, Central City Opera, Aspen Music Festival, Opera

Theatre of St. Louis, and Lyric Opera of Chicago. In concert, he has sung with the symphonies of Santa Fe,

Milwaukee, Madison, Hawaii and Colorado. As a recitalist, he has sung as a Vocal Fellow at Ravinia Festival’s

Steans Music Institute, the Collaborative Arts Institute of Chicago and Horto Music Festival in Pelion,

Greece. Bravos earned the Doctorate of Musical Arts at Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music.

He serves as Artist Faculty and Associate Program Director of Opera at Roosevelt University’s Chicago

College of Performing Arts. Learn more about this artist at www.evanbravos.com