Biography

Recent engagements were his debut as Mandryka in Arabella at San Francisco Opera, Zurga in Les Pêcheurs de Perles at Zurich Opera, Guglielmo in Puccini’s Le Villi with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and his house debut at the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam as Sharpless in Madama Butterfly and Golaud in Pelléas et Mélisande. In summer 2019 Brian Mulligan made his debut at the Salzburg Festival as Créon in Oedipe by George Enescu.

Important projects in season 2020/2021 are Sharpless in Madama Butterfly in Zurich and Rheingold-Wotan at the Bregenz Festival under the baton of Andrés Orozco-Estrada.

Roles in his German repertoire include Amfortas (Parsifal), Gunther (Götterdämmerung), Donner (Das Rheingold), Peter (Hänsel und Gretel), Der Heerrufer (Lohengrin) and Tadeusz (Die Passagierin). Future role debuts include Barak (Die Frau ohne Schatten), Jochanaan (Salome). His appearance in a new “Ring”-production in Chicago and his debuts as Don Pizarro (Fidelio) in Washington and the title role of Wagner’s The flying Dutchman in Amsterdam were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

His Italian repertoire encompasses the roles of Enrico (Lucia di Lammermoor), Renato (Un ballo in Maschera), Paolo (Simon Boccanegra), Conte di Luna (Il trovatore), Macbeth (Macbeth), Amonasro (Aida), Ford (Falstaff), the title role of Rigoletto, Sharpless (Madama Butterfly) and Marcello (La bohème).

In French, he can be heard as Valentin (Faust), Golaud (Pélleas et Mélisande), Chorèbe (Les Troyens), Nélusko (L’Africaine) and as the main character in Ambroise Thomas’ Hamlet.

The internationally sought-after artist is a regular guest on the most important opera and concert stages worldwide, such as the Metropolitan Opera New York, the San Francisco Opera, the Lyric Opera Chicago, the Houston Opera, the opera houses in Amsterdam, Antwerp, Frankfurt and Zurich, as well as important festivals such as the Salzburg Festival, the Wiener Festwochen, the Saito Kinan Festival in Japan, the Wexford Opera Festival, the Aspen Music Festival or Salzburg Festival.