Biography

Baritone Igor Vieira has been named "Outstanding actor in opera of the 2024 season" by the Theater Tampa Bay Awards as well as chosen by popular vote as “Best Singer” of the 2019 season by the San Francisco Classical Voice.

He has also been described as “superb,” and “show-stealing,” by Opera News Magazine and as "a triumph" by the San Francisco Chronicle.

Mr. Vieira made his professional debut in his native Rio de  Janeiro - Brazil at age 17 singing the role of Dancaïre in Bizet’s Carmen; subsequent credits have included the title roles in Rossini's  Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Mozart's Don Giovanni and Le Nozze di Figaro, as well as Verdi's Rigoletto; also Junius in Britten's The Rape of Lucretia, Ford in Verdi’s Falstaff, Tonio in Leoncavallo's I Pagliacci, Germont in Verdi’s La Traviata, and most recently Scarpia in Puccini’s Tosca. 

Mr. Vieira has performed 112 different operatic roles ranging from the Baroque to World Premieres, with such companies as the San Francisco Opera, the Theatro Municipal of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil,) Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Opera San José, Opera Tampa, Teatro Barakaldo (Spain,) Teatro Solís (Uruguay,) Hawaii Opera Theater, Opera Grand Rapids, West  Bay Opera, Berkeley Opera, Theatro São Pedro (Brazil,)  Palácio das Artes (Brazil,) Tacoma Opera, Opera Santa Barbara, Sacramento Opera, Phoenix Hall (Japan) and the Opera Festivals of Belém and Manaus in Brazil, and the Festival Napa Valley and Mendocino Music Festival in the US, to name a few.

Mr. Vieira had the honor of making his San Francisco Opera debut in the role of Happy in Puccini's La Fanciulla del West, returning in following seasons in the roles of Gubetta in Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia with Renee Fleming in the title role (a production that has been commercially released on video by the Euroarts  label) and Il Famigliare in Donizetti's Roberto Devereaux with Sondra Radnovsky.

In the Concert and Oratorio field, Mr. Vieira has performed with the National Symphonies of Brazil and Colombia, the Marin Symphony, the Peninsula Symphony, the Standford Symphony, as well as the Prague Philharmonic.

Mr. Vieira has toured Europe singing the soloist parts in Mozart’s Grand Mass in C minor in Hungary and Slovakia as well as the Dvorak’s Requiem at the world famous Dvorak’s Hall in Prague – Czech Republic. 

He has also made his San Francisco Symphony debut at Davies Concert Hall singing the baritone solo in Orff’s Carmina Burana under Ragnar Bohlin and his Kennedy Center debut, singing the baritone solo in Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast with the Washington Chorus and Orchestra under Christopher Bell. 

Mr. Vieira holds a Bachelors of Arts in Music from the prestigious Westminster Choir College in New Jersey, as well as a Masters degree in Voice Performance from the University of Missouri in Kansas City.