Brace Negron (Bass-Baritone) Brazilian born Bass-Baritone
Brace Negron has been a prolific performer since his arrival to New
York in 1998.  This fall, Mr. Negron will be performing with Toledo
Opera as Count Ceprano.  This past summer, Mr. Negron performed
Christiano in Verdi's
Un Ballo in Maschera with Des Moines Metro
Opera and then flew to France to participate in a concert
series/competition as a finalist in the Azuriales Opera
Festival/Competition this August in Nice, France.  Other recent
performances include Jupiter in Offenbach's
Orpheus and the
Underworld
with Bronx Opera which nabbed Mr. Negron a solid
review in the NY Times, the Herald in
Rigoletto with New Jersey Opera,
and Figaro in
Le Nozze di Figaro with Queens College Opera Studio.
On December 2007, Mr. Negron had his Lincoln Center debut as Ali in
an excerpts program of Rossini's
L'Italiana as part of the Melody for
Peace UNESCO Concert at Avery Fisher Hall.

Past accomplishments include an Asian debut in Singapore with
Singapore Theatreworks in 2001 as the baritone lead The Cowherd in
The Silver River by Bright Sheng, the Lucerne Festival in Lucerne,
Switzerland, performing under Maestro Pierre Boulez and Daniel
Reusse in 2006, and Gregorio in
Romeo et Juliette and 2nd Armored
Man in
Zauberflote both with New Jersey Opera Theater in the summer
of 2007, and being a 2002 finalist in the Heinz Rehfuss Competition. He
has also performed with such companies as Utah Festival Opera, Des
Moines Metro Opera, Dicapo Opera and Opera North.

Mr. Negron received his master's degree from Manhattan School of
Music and his undergraduate degree from Stetson University in Deland,
Florida.

For more details, please visit
www.BraceNegron.com.