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Possessed of an imposing build and a rugged, perfectly articulated baritone

Opera News
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Alburnum reviews

“…similarly smartly programmed is Alburnum, Brian Mulligan’s latest recital of song cycles by Gregory Spears and Mason Bates framing a solo song by Missy Mazzoli. The album opens with... {...}

Ottimo il Kurwenal di Brian Mulligan, forte nel carattere espresso con voce salda e sonora.

OperaClick
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Tristan und Isolde at Teatro di San Carlo

“Ottimo il Kurwenal di Brian Mulligan, forte nel carattere espresso con voce salda e sonora.” OperaClick “Sonoro e d’accento risulta il Kurwenal del baritono americano Brian Mulligan” Connessi all’Opera {...}

Emouvant aussi nous a semblé Brian Mulligan, tant sa voix claire et bien projetée nous rendent plus intolérables encore les souffrances d’Amfortas.

Forum Opéra
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Parsifal at Opéra Bastille

“Emouvant aussi nous a semblé Brian Mulligan, tant sa voix claire et bien projetée nous rendent plus intolérables encore les souffrances d’Amfortas.” Forum Opéra “Brian Mulligan, aussi clair que... {...}

Der amerikanische Bariton Brian Mulligan gestaltete Wotan mit ungewöhnlich warmer Stimme, einem feinem Vibrato und vermochte so seinen Charakter auf die jeweilige Inszenierung differenziert einzustellen – kaltblütiger Göttervater im zweiten Aufzug und von Zerrissenheit geplagter, liebender Vater im letzten Akt.

Bachtrack
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Die Walküre at the Staatsoper Stuttgart

“Der amerikanische Bariton Brian Mulligan gestaltete Wotan mit ungewöhnlich warmer Stimme, einem feinem Vibrato und vermochte so seinen Charakter auf die jeweilige Inszenierung differenziert einzustellen – kaltblütiger Göttervater im... {...}

Baritone Brian Mulligan in particular distinguished himself as the villainous Don Pizarro, delivering powerful melodies with malevolent passion.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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Pittsburgh Symphony – Fidelio

“Baritone Brian Mulligan in particular distinguished himself as the villainous Don Pizarro, delivering powerful melodies with malevolent passion.” Jeremy Reynolds, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette {...}

Brian Mulligan offered a rounded baritone with impressive evenness throughout the registers...his aria proper showed off a lovely legato.

Bachtrack
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Opera Rara – Le Willis

“As Guglielmo, Brian Mulligan sang with resonance and bite in a role that tests the singer at both ends of a very wise range”. Alexander Campbell, Classical Source “Puccini’s... {...}

Brian Mulligan, an American baritone who made his debut here in Salzburg, gives a lot of nobility to the role of Creon.

Forum Opéra
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Salzburg Festival – Oedipe

“Brian Mulligan a malevolent edge to her brother, Créon.” Financial Times «Brian Mulligan, baryton américain qui fait ici ses débuts à Salzbourg, donne beaucoup de noblesse au rôle de... {...}

Mulligan fully engaged with the audience, dishing up the macabre patter with focused, burnished tone, crisp diction, and unfettered glee...

Opera News
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Review: ‘Walden’ and ‘From the Diary of Virginia Woolf’

“ON MARCH 14 at Baruch Performing Arts Center, powerhouse baritone Brian Mulligan and the elegant pianist Timothy Long presented two song cycles based on texts by famous diarists: the... {...}

Hats off to Brian Mulligan for reviving this repertory with heart and soul and a voice of burnished authority. The legends whose voices I associate with this music were Robert Radford (British), John McCormack (Irish), and Paul Robeson (America), whose way with the words and music touched the heartstrings and made you cry. Brian Mulligan has been paying attention if not to those models to others who possessed the same kind of power. Today he has it, too.

Pundicity
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Review: Old Fashioned

“They don’t write songs like this anymore, and if they did, who would sing them? Hats off to Brian Mulligan for reviving this repertory with heart and soul and... {...}

"Baritone Brian Mulligan was a beautiful Golaud, a tall figure with a matching voice. Vocally excellently groomed. Within the limited space the role provides, he played a credible middle-aged man, who transforms from a naive, well-meaning husband into a suspicious, jealous potentate, who seems to value more the certainty that his young wife has not cheated on him than her survival.

Place de l'Opera
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Golaud at Dutch National Opera

„Bariton Brian Mulligan was een prachtige Golaud, een rijzige gestalte met bijbehorende stem. Vocaal uitstekend verzorgd. Binnen de beperkte bewegingsruimte die de rol biedt, speelde hij een geloofwaardige middelbare... {...}