Hailed by Opera News Magazine as “superb,” and “show-stealing,” baritone Igor Vieira made his professional debut in his native Rio de Janeiro  at age 17 singing the role of “Le Dancaïre” in Bizet’s Carmen.

 Subsequent roles have included Junius in Britten's The Rape of Lucretia, the title role as well as Leporello in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Ford in Verdi’s Falstaff, Lescaut in Puccini’s Manon Lescaut, and most recently the title role in Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande.

 Mr. Vieira has sung 59 different operatic roles ranging from the Baroque Period to World Premiers, with such companies as the Teatro Municipal of Rio de Janeiro, the Amazonian Opera Festival, The Belém Opera Festival, Opera du Villecroze (France,) Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Opera Theater of Philadelphia, Teatro Barakaldo (Spain,) West Bay Opera, Berkeley Opera, San Francisco Lyric Opera, Fremont Opera, Rimrock Opera, Festival Opera/Walnut Creek, Oakland Opera Theater, Teatro Sao Pedro (Brazil,) Belcantanti Opera, Pocket Opera, Opera Santa Barbara, Sacramento Opera and Pacific Repertory Opera.

He was a world finalist of the 1995 Luciano Pavarotti Voice Competition in Philadelphia, a recipient of the Margareth Tudor Award (Princeton) for two consecutive years and the Kaplan Foundation Award (Kansas City) for outstanding artistry, as well as Second Place on the East Bay Opera League Voice Competition in 2006 and a semi-finalist of the Competizione d'Opera in Dresden - Germany in 2008.

In the concert and oratorio fields, Mr. Vieira has performed the baritone soloist parts in Haendel’s “Messiah” with the Rutherford’s Symphony in Vermont, Fauré’s “Requiem” with the Orchestre du Provence in Villecroze – France, Orff’s “Carmina Burana” with the  National Symphony in Bogotá  - Colombia and the Marin Symphony in California, Mozart's Requiem with Silicon Valley Symphony and Mozart's C minor Mass and Saint-Saens's Christmas Oratorio with the Master Works Chorale in Redwood City - California.

Mr. Vieira holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Music from the Westminster Choir College in Princeton - New Jersey, and a Master’s Degree in Voice Performance from the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

While in Kansas City, Mr. Vieira was a member of the Lyric Opera of Kansas City Young Artists Program, singing over 12 different productions with that company.

New Jersey Opera Theater - 2006

Lyric Opera of Kansas City - 2005 

With Mallinda Hasslet and Oriel Garza Ornelas