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Quickly distinguishing himself with a voice that the Salt Lake Tribune declares is “heaven sent,” Brian Stucki makes his Carnegie Hall debut in the 2010-11 season as he returns to the American Symphony Orchestra for Spohr’s Die letzten Dinge and Fanny Mendelssohn’s Musik Für die Toten der Cholera-Epidemie. He also returns to the roles of Ramiro in La cenerentola with Pacific Opera Victoria, Roderick in Glass’ The Fall of the House of Usher in a reprisal of the role with Polish National Opera, and Nadir in Les pêcheur de perles with Syracuse Opera and joins the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma for its production of Bolcom’s A View from the Bridge. He returns to the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra for a third time for performances of Handel’s Messiah and reprises the work with the Boise Philharmonic. Last season, he returned to the role of Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia with Opera Colorado and Arizona Opera in addition to singing his first performances of Lindoro in L’italiana in Algeri with Utah Opera, Roderick in The Fall of the House of Usher with Polish National Opera, and Der Geliebte von Morgen in Weill’s Royal Palace at the Bard Music Festival. He joined Utah Symphony for Haydn’s Creation and sang Mozart’s Requiem with Kent Tritle conducting for Sacred Music in a Sacred Space at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola in New York City.
Among his other recent engagements is his international debut as Ferrando in Così fan tutte with New Israeli Opera followed by performances of Mozart’s Mass in C, Requiem, and Mass in C minor with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra. He also joined the Compañía Nacional de Opera at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City and in Tijuana for Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Lyric Opera of Kansas City and Seattle Opera for Nadir in Les pêcheur de perles, Opera Fuoco for Ottavio in Don Giovanni under the baton of David Stern, and Kentucky Opera for the Chevalier in Dialogues of the Carmelites. He has also sung Ramiro in La cenerentola with Michigan Opera Theater and North Carolina Opera, Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Princeton Festival, Ferrando in Così fan tutte with Piedmont Opera, Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia as well as Alfredo in La traviata with Washington East Opera, and Camille in the New York premiere of Tobias Picker’s Thérèse Raquin with Dicapo Opera Theatre.
An accomplished oratorio soloist as well, Mr. Stucki’s recent performances on the concert stage include Haydn’s Creation with Boston Baroque and his Avery Fisher Hall debut as Achicham in Hiller’s The Destruction of Jerusalem with the American Symphony Orchestra and Orff’s Carmina burnana with the Milwaukee Symphony, Honolulu Symphony, and Acadiana Symphony in Louisiana. He has previously joined Handel and Haydn Society and the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra for Handel’s Messiah; Utah Symphony and Mormon Tabernacle Choir for Evangelist in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, Handel’s Utrecht Jubilate and Holst’s Psalm 86 at the Deer Valley Music Festival; and both the Waukegan Symphony and Bach Chorale Singers for Mozart’s Requiem. While at Indiana University, he joined the Chamber Orchestra and Choir for both Lukas in Haydn’s Die Jahreszeiten and Uriel in Die Schöpfung.
Mr. Stucki holds a Master of Music from Indiana University and a Bachelor of Music from Brigham Young University. Additionally, he is a former member of the Glimmerglass Opera Young American Artists Program. Also an accomplished cellist, he has released a recording of Rachmaninoff works on the Tantara label.
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