Brett Polegato

Brett Polegato appears regularly on the world's most distinguished stages including those of Lincoln Center, La Scala, the Concertgebouw, the Opéra National de Paris, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston Grand Opera, the Teatro Real, Roy Thomson Hall, the Kennedy Center and Carnegie Hall, and can be heard as soloist in the Grammy Awards’ Best Classical Recording of 2003 - Vaughan Williams’ A Sea Symphony with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Brett Polegato opened the Canadian Opera Company’s season as Sharpless, his role debut, in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly. He spent the winter in Oslo, performing Il Conte Almaviva, in a new production of Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro. A series of performances of Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem with the Colorado Symphony was followed by a lieder concert with the Aldeburgh Connection. He sang the title role in Don Giovanni for Calgary Opera and made his debut with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra in Vaughan Williams’ A Sea Symphony. Polegato's recordings include his critically praised solo disc, To A Poet, with pianist Iain Burnside, Bach's popular Coffee and Peasant Cantatas with the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, and a live period-instrument performance of Messiah with the Handel & Haydn Society.

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