Scott Brunscheen

Scott J. Brunscheen’s “sweet and substantial lyric tenor” (Chicago Tribune) continues to gain recognition in a wide range of operatic and concert repertoire. Engagements during the 2016-17 season include Haydn's L’isola disabitata with Haymarket Opera Company, Purcell's The Fairy Queen, and the world premiere of Stewart Copeland's The Invention of Morel with Chicago Opera Theater and Long Beach Opera, and Mozart's Die Zauberflote with Madison Opera. Other recent engagements include productions of Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites (singing L’Aumônier and understudying Chevalier de la Force) and Donizetti's La Favorite (covering Don Gaspar) under maestro Will Crutchfield at the Caramoor Bel Canto Festival. In the Fall of 2015, he sang Peter Quint & Prologue in Britten’s The Turn of the Screw with Chicago Fringe Opera. Mr. Brunscheen has understudied and performed in Donizetti's La Fille du Regiment, Puccini’s Tosca, and Heggie's Dead Man Walking (Madison Opera), Glass’ The Fall of the House of Usher, Mose in Egitto, Giasone, and Die Zauberflöte (COT), Chin’s Alice in Wonderland and Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd (Opera Theater of St. Louis), Rossini’s Guillaume Tell, Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia (Caramoor), Rossini’s La Cenerentola, Dean Burry's The Brothers Grimm (Lyric Opera of Chicago Lyric Unlimited), Britten's The Rape of Lucretia (CFO), Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia and La Cenerentola and Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Candid Concert Opera), and Mozart's Don Giovanni with Opera New Jersey.