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to every role he inhabited. In 1995, Mr. Brubaker was invited to sing the role of Jimmy
Mahoney in The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny at the English National Opera. He was immediately asked back to sing Don Jose in Jonathan Miller’s new production of Carmen. Over the next several years he appeared at ENO in new productions and revivals, including House of the Dead, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Rusalka and the title role in Peter Grimes (becoming the first American to sing the role in England). He was introduced to Paris in 2000, in the role of Pierre Bezukhov in Francesca Zambello's production of War and Peace at the Opera National de Paris, followed by a reprise of Der Zwerg, Golitsin in Khovanscina (Opera News summed it up when writing about his Golitsin: "Brubaker once again showed that, for sheer stamina in high-lying music, he has few rivals" ) and Dmitri in Boris Godunov.
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Meistersinger in 1992, most notably as Mime in the Ring Cycle,(about which the New York Times said “The tenor Robert Brubaker triumphed as Mime.”),Chairman Mao in Nixon in China, Mefistofeles in Doktor Faust, Golitsin in Khovanschina and Gregor in The Makropoulos Case. His “journey” has taken him to more than 50 different theaters worldwide, where he has sung over 120 roles in the opera repertory.
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His first engagement in Europe came from
Giancarlo Menotti, who brought a production of Zemlinsky's Der Zwerg from the Spoleto Festival, USA, to the Rome Opera. Even the sometimes ambivalent Roman audience was moved by his portrayal of the dwarf, an indication of the dramatic intensity he would bring
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Among the roles he has created, are the title role in
Dominic Argento's The Dream of Valentino with the Washington Opera, and Don Ygnacio in Peter Eotvos's Of Love and Other Demons at the Glyndebourne festival. He has also had the opportunity to sing Peter Grimes in Aldeburgh, where Benjamin Britten
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Growing up on a farm in rural
Pennsylvania, he heard his first opera, (a Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast of Aida) while working in the cow stable. It's a long journey from there to actually setting foot on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera, which he has done many times since his debut as Zorn
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Continuing his career in Europe, Mr. Brubaker appeared at the
Salzburg Festival, singing the title role in Der König Kandaules, and Alviano in Die Gezeichneten (“Robert Brubaker is a tour-de-force as Alviano using his light helden tenorvoice to convey the anguish he feels.” – Michael Sinclair,
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He has sung at most of the major theaters in Italy and Spain: Herod in Salome at La Scala, Bologna, Trieste and
Barcelona (“Absolutely sensational the Herodes of Robert Brubaker... At last a Herodes sung with heroic voice.” – In Fernam Land, June 20, 2009); Hermann in Pique Dame in Naples;
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Captain Vere in Billy Budd in Genoa; Golitsin in
Khovanschina in Florence and Barcelona; Sigmund in Die WalkĂĽre in Madrid; and in Seville, Mefistofeles in Doktor Faust and Loge in Das Rheingold.
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