Grammy Award-winner Errin Duane Brooks is becoming one of the most sought-after tenors in the industry. Recently, Mr. Brooks just finished covering the title character in Verdi's Otello, and also singing the First Armored Man in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, the First Noble in Wagner’s Lohengrin, and the High Priest in Mozart's Idomeneo, all with the Metropolitan Opera. The summer of 2022 was a summer of debuts for Brooks, who recently made his company and role debut singing Bacchus in Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos, both with Vashon Opera and Lakes Area Music Festival. Mr. Brooks also sang the role of Robbins in George and Ira Gershwin's Porgy and Bess in his company debut with Des Moines Metro Opera. Other roles performed includes Mingo in Porgy and Bess, Pinkerton in Puccini's Madane Butterfly, and Canio in Leoncavallo’s I Pagliacci.

 

An avid fan of new music and great music that is rarely done, Mr. Brooks began the fall of his 2018-19 season as part of an exciting new project, The-Mile-Long Opera: a biography of 7’oclock by Pulitzer prize-winning composer David Lang and acclaimed poets Anne Carson and Claudia Rankine, performed on New York’s High Line. In May 2019 Mr. Brooks made his much-anticipated return to New Amsterdam Opera as Jean de Baptîste in Massenet's Hérodiade. That same month, he made his debut with American Opera Project in their world-premiere production of Stonewall, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots sparked by the late great Marsha P. Johnson.

 

Mr. Brooks is also becoming well-versed in concert repertoire, performing in such works as the Schoenberg arrangement of Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde in April 2022 with Washington Heights Chamber Orchestra at Washington Heights Collegiate Church, the tenor soloist in Brahm's Liebeslieder Waltzes in April 2019 with The National Chorale at David Geffen Hall, Haydn's Lord Nelson Mass, Vaughn-Williams Serenade to Music and Bernstein's Chichester Psalms in May 2018 at Carnegie Hall, Mozart’s Symphony No. 23 in D Major in April 2018 with Orchestra Society New Jersey, and Verdi’s Requiem in August 2017 with Utah Festival Opera.

 

Competition winnings for Errin Duane includes The Sullivan Foundation Awards, The Wagner Society of New York, the Giulio Gari Foundation International Voice Competition and most notably, earning the George London-Kirsten Flagstad Grand Prize Award for promising Wagnerian Singer in the 2017 George London Foundation Competition.

 

Upcoming roles and performances for Mr. Brooks includes Calaf in Puccini's Turandot and Adult Nathan in Terrence Blanchard's Fire Shut Up in My Bones, both with the Metropolitan Opera, Rodolpho in Puccini's La Boheme with Port Angeles Symphony, and a titular role debut in Verdi’s Otello with Vashon Opera.

 

Graduating with honors, Errin Duane received his Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance with a minor in Business from Madonna University, his Master of Music in Vocal Performance at Bowling Green State University and an Artist Diploma in Opera from Roosevelt University.