Evan Bravos
baritone
Marked as a “talent to watch”
John Von Rhein, Chicago Tribune
Marked as a “talent to watch” (John Von Rhein, Chicago Tribune), Baritone Evan Bravos has received critical acclaim for his “lovely lyric baritone” (Opera News).
The 2025-26 season kicks-off with a solo recital Beyond Byzantium: It’s All Greek to Me! at the National Hellenic Museum for its inaugural concert series. The recital brings to light classical Greek art song, and operetta of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In the winter months, Mr. Bravos joins fellow Chicago College of Performing Arts Voice Faculty colleagues, Karim Sulyman, and pianist Shannon McGinnis (Associate Dean of CCPA’s Music Conservatory) for a festive Schubertiad where he reprises a staple of the repertory, Schubert: Der Winterreise. In March, he joins Chicago’s oldest musical organization, The Apollo Chorus (founded in 1872) for performances of Bach: St. Matthew Passion, and in May, returns to Opera Santa Barabra, where he performs the title role in Robert Aldridge and Herschel Garfein: Elmer Gantry.
In the 2024-25 season, Bravos had several featured performances, including the premiere of a song cycle The Pure and Impure by composer Elizabeth Doyle at Piano-Forte Studios in Chicago; a reprise of a role he premiered, Kenny Kincaid, in Okpebholo & Campbell: The Cook-Off with New Orleans Opera; Vaughan Williams: Sea Symphony with the Helena Symphony and several engagements singing Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem including with the Apollo Chorus (Chicago), The Grace Chorale (Brooklyn NY) and the Evanston Symphony.
Highlights for the 2023-24 season included revisiting the role of Count Almaviva, Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro in Columbia, South Carolina (Christopher James Ray); Countess’ Lackey/Ivan Ivanovich, Shostakovich: The Nose with Chicago Opera Theater (Lidiya Yankovskaya and Francesca Zambello); a featured performance of Schubert: Der Winterreise for Opera Up Close; a debut with Helena Symphony on Rachmaninoff: The Bells of Ecstasy (Allan R. Scott) and Vaughn Williams: Five Mystical Songs (JosephWelch) and two performances with Jake Heggie for the Chicago Opera Theater premiere of his and Gene Scherer’s new opera, Before It All Goes Dark.
The 2022-23 season, saw Bravos in Boston for Let’s Celebrate! (White Snake Projects), Silvio, I Pagliacci, (Opera Tampa) and Kenny Kincaid in Okpebholo & Campbell The Cook-Off (Chicago Opera Theater). Other favorites include Riff, West Side Story (New Philharmonic Opera); Maximilian, Candide (Ravinia Festival); George Jones, Weill: Street Scene, and Masetto, Don Giovanni (Virginia Opera); Inman, Higdon: Cold Mountain (Music Academy of the West); and Tom Joad, Gordon: The Grapes of Wrath. House credits include Sarasota Opera, San Diego Opera, Central City Opera, Aspen Music Festival, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, and Lyric Opera of Chicago. In concert, he has sung with the symphonies of Santa Fe, Milwaukee, Madison, Hawaii and Colorado. As a recitalist, he has sung as a Vocal Fellow at Ravinia Festival’s Steans Music Institute, the Collaborative Arts Institute of Chicago and Horto Music Festival in Pelion,Greece.
Bravos earned the Doctorate of Musical Arts at Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music. He serves as Artist Faculty and Associate Program Director of Opera at Roosevelt University’s Chicago College of Performing Arts.