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Puccini: Le Willis

  • Format: CD
  • Release: September 2019

Opera Rara’s recording of Le Willis gives listeners the chance to hear Puccini’s first opera as it has not been heard for more than 120 years. Making use of the new Ricordi edition, Sir Mark Elder conducts a star cast that includes soprano Ermonela Jaho, tenor Arsen Soghomonyan, and baritone Brian Mulligan. This recording includes the two celebrated arias that were added to the revised two-act version of Le Villi and showcases the young and prodigiously talented composer in his first exploration of operatic drama.

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Old Fashioned

  • Format: CD
  • Release: January 2019

Brian Mulligan's second solo album to be released on January 4, 2019 by Bridge Records. The album highlights early twentieth century songs that were made popular through renditions by great American baritones of the past, including Nelson Eddy, John Charles Thomas, Lawrence Tibbett, and Leonard Warren.

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Dominick Argento: The Andrée Expedition

  • Format: CD
  • Release: August 2017

This is Brian Mulligan's debut solo album on the Naxos label. Andrée, Strindberg, and Frænkel began their expedition on July 11, 1897. Their records break off three months later. Thirty-three years later their bodies were discovered and returned to Sweden, at which time the diaries and notebooks of Andrée and Strindberg were published: most of the text for this cycle is taken directly from them. Frænkel left no account behind, but the text assigned is partially based on his companions’ writings.

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Puccini: Le Willis

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  • Release: September 2019
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“Brian Mulligan offered a rounded baritone with impressive evenness throughout the registers…his aria proper showed off a lovely legato.”

Kevin W Ng, Bachtrack

“As Guglielmo, Brian Mulligan sang with resonance and bite in a role that tests the singer at both ends of a very wide range”.

Alexander Campbell, Classical Source

“Puccini’s writing when all three characters sing together is particularly skillful, and here was brought to the full by Brian Mulligan’s strong and assertive baritone as Guglielmo, Arsen Soghomonyan’s dark but exceptionally versatile tenor as Roberto, and Ermonela Jaho’s highly committed and emotional performance as Anna.”

Sam Smith, Music OMH


Old Fashioned

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  • Release: January 2019
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From Bridge Records:

Brian Mulligan’s second solo album released by Bridge Records. The album features beloved songs of the early twentieth century made popular by great American baritones of the past. Brian Mulligan and pianist Craig Rutenberg have curated this program to represent a breadth of composers and musical styles, honoring an incredible period of music in America.

“The CD presents a fine selection of the kind of concert song that has long since vanished from the active repertory, with a style floating somewhere between popular and semi-classical. These numbers predate the universal use of microphones and require good, solid technique.

The sentimental “Roses of Picardy” (1916) stands out for effective intimacy, as does the familiar stanzaic Romberg chestnut.

Mulligan delivers the words with admirable clarity; the texts are available on his website. Ironically, his nostalgic project should prove a welcome novelty for many listeners.” –David Shengold

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Dominick Argento: The Andrée Expedition

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  • Release: August 2017
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“Mulligan has a thrilling quality in his voice, an open-throated sound that’s masculine, honest, and completely appealing; his is an exhilarating balance between constant beauty and toeing a risky edge. There’s something accessible about his approach to the texts in Argento’s songs; in Mulligan’s voice they have an “all-American” quality, despite the texts’ origins in Swedish explorers and English writers.”

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