BIO
Bass-baritone with a 35-year international career, specialized in Opera and Symphonic Repertoire at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music and the Budapest Opera in Hungary, where he worked as a resident artist and guest performer. Licio Bruno is an Associate Professor and researcher at the Faculty of Music in Espírito Santo. He is the pedagogical coordinator of the Postgraduate courses at the Coletivo das Artes.
Winner of the Carlos Gomes Prize in 2004, he has received 10 awards in national and international Singing competitions. In 2015, he was awarded the "Order of Cultural Merit Carlos Gomes" by SBACE-SP and the Medal of the 50th Anniversary of UN Peacekeeping Forces - ABIFIP-UN.
Recognized as one of Brazil's acclaimed classical interpreters by specialized critics, he performs in various genres - opera, operetta, masses and oratorios, symphonic and chamber repertoire. He has been directed by Amir Haddad, José Possi Netto, Jorge Takla, Gianni Rato, Sérgio Britto, Werner Herzog, André Heller-Lopes, Carla Camurati, among others. He has also collaborated with various orchestras and conductors, including Lorin Maazel, Fabio Mechetti, Isaac Karabtchevsky, Kováts János, Roberto Minczuck, Pier Giorgio Morandi, and Marin Alsop, in theaters such as the Budapest Opera, Theatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Sala São Paulo, Teatro Colón in Bogotá, Argentino de La Plata in Buenos Aires, and Teatro El Circulo in Rosario.
He has sung over 80 leading roles in operas such as "Otello," "La Traviata," "Aida," "Falstaff," "Rigoletto," "Un Ballo in Maschera," "Ernani" by G. Verdi, "Carmen," "Les Pêcheurs de Perles" by G. Bizet, "Fidelio" by L.V. Beethoven, "Lucia di Lammermoor," "Elisir D’Amore," "Don Pasquale," and others by G. Donizetti, "Bluebeard Castle" by Bartok, "O Caixeiro da Taverna" and "Serafim e o lugar onde não se morre" by G. Bernstein, "Romeo and Juliet" by C. Gounod, "Iphigenie en Tauride" by C. W. Gluck, "Die Lustige Witwe" by F. Lehár, "Medeia" by Mario Ferraro, "I Pagliacci" by R. Leoncavallo, "Cavalleria Rusticana" by P. Mascagni, operas by W. A. Mozart such as "Die Zauberflöte," "Don Giovanni," "Le Nozze di Figaro," and "Cosi Fan Tutte," "La Serva Padrona" and "Livietta e Tracollo" by G. B. Pergolesi, "La Gioconda" by A. Ponchielli, operas by G. Puccini such as "La Bohème," "La Fanciulla del West," "Gianni Schicchi," "Madama Butterfly," "Manon Lescaut," "Tosca," and "Turandot," "Il Barbiere di Siviglia," "La Cenerentola," "L’Italiana in Algeri," and "Il Turco in Italia" by G. Rossini, "Die Fledermauss" by J. Strauss, "Salome" by R. Strauss, and in works by R. Wagner, such as Wotan in the Ring Cycle - "Das Rheingold," "Die Walküre," "Siegfried" – and in "Tannhäuser," "Lohengrin," and "Der Fliegende Holländer," among others.