Brian Montgomery (Baritone)
Brian Montgomery is the former Head of Vocal Studies at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. He has performed to critical acclaim with important opera companies throughout the world, including the Metropolitan Opera (Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor and Posa in Don Carlo, most notably), Lyric Opera of Chicago (Posa in Don Carlo, Germont in La Traviata, Guglielmo in Così fan tutte, Mercutio in Romeo et Juliette, Marcello and Schaunard in La Bohème, and Malatesta in Don Pasquale), Arena di Verona (Iago in Otello), Bavarian State Opera (Sharpless in Madama Butterfly, Marcello in La Bohème, Silvio in I Pagliacci, Ottokar in Der Freischütz, and Leander in The Love for Three Oranges most notably), Hamburg State Opera and Stuttgart Opera (Marcello in La Bohème), Hungarian State Opera (di Luna in Il Trovatore), Basel Opera (Iago in Otello, Sharpless, Malatesta, and Junius in The Rape of Lucretia), Atlanta Opera (title role of Verdi's Macbeth), Dallas Opera (de Bretigny in Massenet's Manon), Manitoba Opera (Renato in Un Ballo in Maschera), Palm Beach Opera (Enrico and Germont), Tulsa Opera (Zurga in Les Pêcheurs des Perles), Opera Omaha (Sharpless), Utah Festival Opera (Jack Rance in La fanciulla del West), Arizona Opera (Renato), New Orleans Opera (Sharpless), and Madison Opera (the four villains in Les Contes d'Hoffman and the title role in Rigoletto). He created the role of Sloan in the world première of Dreamkeepers by David Carlson for the Utah Festival Opera.
More recently, Montgomery sang Marcello at the Lyric Opera of Chicago and in Hannover, Germany, Alfio in Cavalleria rusticana for the Glimmerglass Opera, Germont at the Lyric Opera of Chicago and the title role in Rigoletto for the Lyric Opera of Kansas City. In Hong Kong he has performed Strauss' Salome and Elektra, Puccini's Madama Butterfly with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, and appears frequently with Opera Hong Kong and the SAR Philharmonic Orchestra, among others.
