This season tenor Marcos Aguiar has sung the role of Otello with the DuPage Opera Theater. Briefly after his Otello debut he appeared as Dick Johnson in Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West with the Di Capo Opera Theater and Canio in I Pagliacci with the Augusta Opera. This summer he is scheduled to sing the role of Des Grieux in Puccini’s Manon Lescaut with the Utah Opera Festival in Logan, Utah.
A frequent performer in concert and opera, Marcos has appeared as a soloist with the State of São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestras of the Municipal Theater of São Paulo and Municipal Theater of Rio de Janeiro, the Louisiana Philharmonic, among others. In 2003, as a winner of the 6th Aldo Baldin Vocal Competition in Brazil, he was awarded his prize by principal judge Fiorenza Cossotto. In the same year he debuted as Don José in Bizet’s Carmen at the Opera Festival in Florianopolis, Brazil. In 2004 he sang concert versions of the roles of Pinkerton in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly and Don José in Bizet’s Carmen at The Municipal Theater of São Paulo and also sang the role of Don José at the Teatro da Paz Opera Festival in Belém, Brazil. In 2005 Marcos made his debut at the Municipal Theater of Rio de Janeiro singing the role of Macduff in Verdi’s Macbeth. He appeared again in Carmen and Madama Butterfly at the 2006 and 2007 IU Opera Theater seasons, singing the roles of Don José and Pinkerton. Marcos Aguiar received a Bachelors degree in Music and Voice from Santa Marcelina College in São Paulo, Brazil, and a Masters Degree in Music from Loyola University in New Orleans.