Tenor Errin Duane Brooks sang with Opera Dolce in October 2021 courtesy of The Metropolitan Opera. With The Metropolitan Opera, he performed as Adult Nathan in Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up My Bones and as Mingo in George and Ira Gershwin's Porgy and Bess. Recently, Errin had the honor to perform at the Going Home service of the late, great Cicely Tyson. During the 2019-20 season, Mr. Brooks made several role and company debuts, such as Mr. Charles in Ricky Ian Gordon and Lynn Nottage’s Intimate Apparel with The Lincoln Center Theater, the title role in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde with Connecticut Lyric Opera and opening his season of debuts as Mingo in Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess at The Metropolitan Opera.
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, 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.
Mr. Brooks is also well versed in concert repertoire, performing as the tenor soloist in such works as the Brahms Liebeslieder Waltzes with The National Chorale at David Geffen Hall; Haydn's Lord Nelson Mass, Vaughn-Williams Serenade to Music and Bernstein's Chichester Psalms at Carnegie Hall; Mozart’s Symphony No. 23 in D Major with Orchestra Society of New Jersey and Verdi’s Requiem with Utah Festival Opera. Errin has performed with many companies, including Boheme Opera New Jersey, Lyric Opera Chicago, Michigan Opera Theater, New York City Opera, Teatro Petruzzelli, Teatro Regio di Torino and Toledo Opera.
Recent competition wins include the Giulio Gari Foundation International Voice Competition, the George London-Kirsten Flagstad Grand Prize Award for promising Wagnerian Singer, Grand Prize in the Bel Canto Competition, second prize in the Luminarts Cultural Foundation Vocal Competition, Regional Finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and first place in The National Vocal Arts Competition for Emerging Artists.
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, 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.
Mr. Brooks is also well versed in concert repertoire, performing as the tenor soloist in such works as the Brahms Liebeslieder Waltzes with The National Chorale at David Geffen Hall; Haydn's Lord Nelson Mass, Vaughn-Williams Serenade to Music and Bernstein's Chichester Psalms at Carnegie Hall; Mozart’s Symphony No. 23 in D Major with Orchestra Society of New Jersey and Verdi’s Requiem with Utah Festival Opera. Errin has performed with many companies, including Boheme Opera New Jersey, Lyric Opera Chicago, Michigan Opera Theater, New York City Opera, Teatro Petruzzelli, Teatro Regio di Torino and Toledo Opera.
Recent competition wins include the Giulio Gari Foundation International Voice Competition, the George London-Kirsten Flagstad Grand Prize Award for promising Wagnerian Singer, Grand Prize in the Bel Canto Competition, second prize in the Luminarts Cultural Foundation Vocal Competition, Regional Finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and first place in The National Vocal Arts Competition for Emerging Artists.