Brandon Jovanovich

Brandon Jovanovich appears regularly at the world’s leading opera companies and is celebrated for his passionate stage portrayals of roles in French, Italian, German, and Slavic opera. He began the 2025–26 season in the title role of Parsifal at San Francisco Opera and later returned to Lyric Opera of Chicago as Herod in Salome. Jovanovich also joined Boston Lyric Opera for a new, staged version of Das Lied von der Erde alongside Raehann Bryce-Davis.  

Other recent opera highlights include Fauré’s Penelope at the Bayerische Staatsoper, the company premiere of Jake Heggie’s Moby Dick at The Metropolitan Opera, the title role of Peter Grimes at Teatro alla Scala, and a program of Wagner scenes with Washington National Opera. In past seasons, Jovanovich has also appeared at the Staatsoper Berlin, Gran Teatre del Liceu, Wiener Staatsoper, Royal Opera House, Deutsche Oper Berlin, and Salzburg Festival, among many others.

Jovanovich has also had much success with concert work throughout Europe and the United States. His orchestral appearances include Schoenberg’s Gurre-Lieder with Orchestra Köln and The Hallé, Mahler’s Eighth Symphony with the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne and the Dresdner Philharmonie, and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the RAI National Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, and Aquitaine National Orchestra.

A native of Billings, Montana, Jovanovich received his training at Northern Arizona University and the Manhattan School of Music. He was the recipient of the 2007 Richard Tucker Award and was twice a New York City district winner in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. He was a founding member of the Seattle Young Artists program and a member of the Santa Fe Opera Apprentice Program, where he received the Anna Case Mackay Award. He won the Crawley Award from the Young Patronesses of the Opera/Florida Grand Opera Voice Competition and, in 2004, received the prestigious ARIA Award.