Possessed of an imposing build and a rugged, perfectly articulated baritone"
Opera News
Brian Mulligan offered a rounded baritone with impressive evenness throughout the registers...his aria proper showed off a lovely legato."
Bachtrack
“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
“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
“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
“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
„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... {...}
In Old Fashioned he performs songs made popular by the great American baritones of the 20th century, such as Nelson Eddy, Lawrence Tibbett and Leonard Warren, sailing through them from a whisper to a roar. He sounds very comfortable in this repertoire, from the ardent romanticism of d'Hardelot's Because to the goonish On the Trail of the Lonesome Pine, famously performed by Laurel and Hardy.
Opera Now
“The home page of Brian Mulligan’s website highlights a review stating that he possesses ‘a voice that rich, secure, and really, really big’, and I am happy to concur... {...}
"Mulligan’s sturdy baritone and soulful acting assured an appealing Mandryka."
Opera Warhorses
“Mulligan’s supple baritone did not tire, and his impeccable technique made his solid, salt-of-the-earth portrayal of Mandryka even and free from low to high range. We could see and... {...}
Most male characters in opera are either heroes or villains. Among the rest, there is Arabella’s good-bad-good Mandryka. Baritone Brian Mulligan, memorable here in 2012 in the title role... {...}
“Brian Mulligan (also Donner in Rheingold) sang Gunther with the voice of a king masked by a softness in physical presence that made him easy prey for Hagen.”
Richard S. Ginell, Classical Voice America
“Baritone Brian Mulligan unfurled a resplendent baritone as the thunder god Donner and returned in Götterdämmerung as a weak-willed but smoothly sung Gunther.” -Harvey Steiman, Seen and Heard International (June 19,... {...}
"The Death of Klinghoffer," by John Adams and Alice Goodman, is a controversial work... Nancy Maultsby, Brian Mulligan, Christopher Magiera, Aubrey Allicock and the rest of the cast made it come alive."
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“The Death of Klinghoffer,” by John Adams and Alice Goodman, is a controversial work, dealing with the real-life 1985 hijacking of the cruise ship Achille Lauro by Palestinian terrorists,... {...}