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date = "2018-01-21T17:25:00-05:00"
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publishDate = "2018-01-21T17:25:00-05:00"
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title = "Timothy J. Bruno"
website = "http://www.timothyjbruno.com/"

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2018-19 marks the finale of Mr. Bruno’s affiliation as a Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist with the Washington National Opera. He will have his role debuts at the WNO as Dottore Grenvil in _La Traviata_ followed by the French General in _Silent Night_. In 2019, he will create the role of Daddy in WNO’s world-premiere of _Taking Up Serpents_ by Kamala Sankaram and Jerre Dye as part of the American Opera Initiative. With the New Orleans Opera, he will star as Osmin in _Abduction from the Seraglio_. Back at WNO, he will cover the role of Méphistophélès in _Faust_, and then appears in the world-premiere of Liszt’s lost opera, _Sardanapale_, performing Beleso at the Library of Congress.  In the summer, he returns to Des Moines Metro Opera for Colline in _La bohème_ and the First Apprentice in _Wozzeck_.  

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In 2017-18, Mr. Bruno performed Il frate in _Don Carlo_, Don Basilio in _The Barber of Seville_, the King in _The Little Prince_, the Sodbuster in the world premiere of Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek’s _Proving Up_, and covered Melisso in _Alcina_. With the Washington Concert Opera, he debuted as Il Priore in Bellini’s _La Straniera_ and appeared as Il viscount di Suze in Donizetti’s _Maria di Rohan_ under the baton of Mo. Antony Walker. Mr. Bruno also debuted at The Glimmerglass Festival, performing Don Basilio in _The Barber of Seville_ and The French General in _Silent Night_.

Previous seasons include his debut at Des Moines Metro Opera as the Mandarin in _Turandot_, and Bosun in _Billy Budd_ while covering the role of John Claggart. With the WNO, he also performed Antonio and Dr. Bartolo in _The Marriage of Figaro_, Hortensius in _Daughter of the Regiment_, Warden Benton in _Dead Man Walking_, Lo zio Bonzo in _Madama Butterfly_, Il Commendatore in _Don Giovanni,_ and appeared in the world-premieres of Mohammed Fairouz’s _The Dictator’s Wife and Luna Pearl Woolf’s Better Gods_. He also sang other commanding roles such as Colline in _La bohème_ as a Filene Young Artist with Wolf Trap Opera, Méphistophélès in _Faust_ and Raimondo in _Lucia di Lammermoor_ with Winter Opera St. Louis, Wotan in the Jonathan Dove reduction of _Die Walküre_ with Union Avenue Opera, Osmin in _Abduction from the Seraglio_ and Der Wanderer in Act One of _Siegfried_ with Queen City Chamber Opera, Abimélech in _Samson et Dalila_ with the Atlanta Symphony, alongside Stephanie Blythe and Stuart Skelton, and the Commendatore in _Don Giovanni_, alongside Angela Meade as Donna Anna with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Bruno also maintains a strong presence in contemporary opera. He has been involved in three world premieres as part of the American Opera Initiative at Washington National Opera, where he also appeared as General Cobb and James Fowler in the revision of Philip Glass’ _Appomattox_. As well, he portrayed Louis XVI in _Ghosts of Versailles_ at Wolf Trap Opera, and covered Eric Owens as the Storyteller in John Adams’s _A Flowering Tree_ with Cincinnati Opera.

Prior to his summers at Wolf Trap, Mr. Bruno was an Apprentice Artist in Central City Opera’s Bonfils-Stanton Training Program, where he performed the role of Dr. Bartolo in _Le Nozze di Figaro_. As an Apprentice Artist at Opera Saratoga, he covered Sparafucile in _Rigoletto_ and performed Berthold in Offenbach’s _Le 66_. He performed Curio in _Giulio Cesare_ and Antonio in _Le Nozze di Figaro_ as a Resident Artist with Michigan Opera Theater, and made his professional debut in 2011 as a Young Artist with Cincinnati Opera. There he performed Count Ceprano in _Rigoletto_ and Second Armed Guard in _Die Zauberflöte_. He has also appeared with Toledo Opera, Opera Columbus, Annapolis Opera, and El Paso Opera, among others.

In demand as a concert artist, Mr. Bruno appeared in Schubert’s _Mass in G_ and Mozart’s _Requiem_ and _Coronation Mass_ at the Washington National Cathedral, Handel’s _Messiah_ with the Memphis Symphony, the Bluffton Bach Festival, and at the Niswonger Performing Arts Center, Haydn’s _Creation_ with the Ann Arbor Cantata Singers, and Mendelssohn’s _Elijah_ with the Vermillion Symphonic Choir. He has also appeared with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the Toledo Symphony, the Dayton Bach Society, the Knox Music Series, St. Michaels in the Hills, and the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra.

Mr. Bruno is a recipient of prizes from the Metropolitan Opera’s National Council Auditions, the Opera Birmingham Competition, the Annapolis Opera Competition, Partners for the Arts, the Harold Haugh Light Opera Competition, and Singer’s Club of Cleveland. He is an alumnus of the Master of Music program at the University of Cincinnati’s College Conservatory of Music and holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Bowling Green State University.