Photo: Fran Marshall Photography
Brendan Collins
Languages (fluent):
English, Italian, French, Irish
Experience
Opera
Ormonte
Partenope (Handel)
Iford Opera
2018
Antinous
Il Ritorno d'Ulysee in Patria (Monteverdi)
Opera Collective Ireland
2018
Crespel
Les Contes D'Hoffmann (Offenbach)
Irish National Opera
2018
Marchese d'Obigny
La Traviata (Verdi)
Cork Opera House
2017
Gianni Schicchi
Gianni Schicchi (Giacomo Puccini)
Opera in the Open
2017
Marcello
La Boheme (Giacomo Puccini)
Northern Ireland Opera
2017
The Husband
The Last Hotel (Donnacha Dennehy)
Theatre de Luxembourg
2017
Art
Eithne (Robert O'Dwyer)
Opera Theatre Company
2017
Masetto
Don Giovanni (Mozart)
Opera Theatre Company
2016
Fiorello
Il Barbiere si Siviglia (Rossini)
Wide Open Opera
2016
Marullo
Rigoletto (Verdi)
Longborough Festival Opera
2015
Pallante
Agrippina (Handel)
Irish Youth Opera
2015
First Nazarene
Salome (Strauss, R)
Northern Ireland Opera
2015
Wagner
Faust (Gounod)
Cork Operatic Society
2015
Donald
Billy Budd (Benjamin Britten)
Glyndebourne Festival Opera
2014
Arthur Jones
Billy Budd (Benjamin Britten)
Glyndebourne, BBC Proms, Brooklyn Academy of Music
2014
Leporello
Don Giovanni (Mozart)
Scottish Opera
2013
Pietro di Wisants
L'assedio di Calais (Donizetti)
English Touring Opera
2013
Paolo Albiani
Simon Boccanegra (Verdi)
English Touring Opera
2013
Tonio
Pagliacci (Leoncavallo)
Cork Operatic Society
2012
Giorgio Germont
La Traviata (Verdi)
Glasthule Opera
2011
Sacristan
Tosca (Puccini)
Northern Ireland Opera
2011
Escamillo
Carmen (Bizet)
Glasthule Opera
2010
Demetrius
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Britten)
English Touring Opera
2010
Count Gil
Il Segreto di Susanno (Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari)
Bijou Opera
2009
Count Gil
Il Segreto di Susanno (Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari)
Bijou Opera
2009
Count Gil
Susanna's Secret (Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari)
Bijou Opera
2009
Elviro
Xerses (Handel)
Opera Theatre Company
2009
Yamadori
Madama Butterfly (Puccini)
Opera Ireland
2008
Count Almaviva
The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart)
Taidhbhearc Opera
2007
Notary
Don Pasquale (Donizetti)
English Touring Opera
Operetta/G&S
Pish-Tush
The Mikado (Sullivan)
National Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company
2016
Pirate King
The Pirates of Penzance (Sullivan)
National Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company
2016
Lieutenant
Yeoman of the Guard (Sullivan)
National Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company
2016
Jupiter
Orpheus in the Underworld (Offenbach)
Scottish Opera
2011
Covered Covered & Performed Scenes Premiere of New Work Concert COVID-cancelled
Education
Opera Studio
Theatre de la Monnaie/De Munt, Brussels
2007–2008
PG Dip Music Performance
DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama
2005–2006
B.Mus
Cork School Of Music
1999–2003