Brian Keith Johnson, baritone

Brian Keith Johnson has performed many roles in opera from Figaro in il barbiere di Siviglia to Ford in Falstaff. As a member of Actors’ Equity Association, he has also performed a variety of musical theatre roles ranging from Jim in Big River and Joe in Show Boat to Pilate in Jesus Christ Superstar and Father/God in Children of Eden. Operatic roles include Henry Box Brown and Frederick Douglass in Opera Columbus’ World Premiere of Leslie Burrs’ Vanqui; Masetto in Don Giovanni and Valentin in Faust with Cleveland Opera; Bellomy in The Fantasticks, Dewain in I Was Looking At The Ceiling and Then I Saw The Sky, Belcore in The Elixir of Love and Figaro in The Barber of Seville with Lyric Opera Cleveland; Crown in Porgy and Bess with The Beck Center and Union Avenue Opera and Germont in La Traviata with The Carolina Master Chorale. This season’s operatic engagements include Sharpless in Madama Butterfly with Opera Western Reserve, The Bonze in Madama Butterfly with The Canton Symphony Orchestra and Michele in Il Tabarro with Union Avenue Opera.

Mr. Johnson’s concert performances include excerpts from Die Zauberflöte and La Cenerentola with The Cleveland Orchestra; Carmina Burana with both The San Jose Ballet and The Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre; Porgy in Porgy and Bess, The Five Mystical Songs, The Bach Magnificat, Carmina Burana and The Messiah with The Akron Symphony Orchestra; The Fauré Requiem and Carmina Burana with The Youngstown Symphony Orchestra; The Bach Magnificat, Crown in Porgy and Bess, Carmina Burana, Adam in The Creation and Schlendrian in The Coffee Cantata with The Canton Symphony Orchestra; The Brahms Requiem and Mussorgsky’s Songs and Dances of Death with The Duke Symphony Orchestra; The Mozart Requiem, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and Carmina Burana with The Ashland Symphony Orchestra; The Mozart C Minor Mass with The Dayton Bach Society; La Traviata and La Boheme with The New Opera Festival di Roma Orchestra in Rome, Italy; Elijah and The Verdi Requiem with The Warren Philharmonic Orchestra; La Boheme and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with The Missouri Symphony Orchestra and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with The Springfield Symphony Orchestra. This season’s concert engagements include Dvorak’s Te Deum with The Master Singers Chorale, Elijah with The Suburban Symphony, The Messiah and The Brahms Requiem with The Akron Symphony Orchestra and The Songs of Travel by Ralph Vaughan Williams with The Duke Symphony Orchestra.