One of the most important dramatic tenors in the world today, Brandon Jovanovich has won international acclaim in leading operatic theaters, including Opéra national de Paris, the Metropolitan Opera, the Royal Opera House, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Bayerische Staatsoper, Opernhaus Zürich, Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels, San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Canadian Opera Company, Opera Australia, Glyndebourne Festival, and more. 

This Season 2024/25 Brandon Jovanovich returns to Opernhaus Zürich to reprise the role of Bacchus in Ariadne auf Naxos. Later in the season Jovanovich stars as the monomaniacal Captain Ahab of composer Jake Heggie’s adaptation of Herman Melville’s epic Moby Dick at the Metropolitan Opera. In Munich, Jovanovich performs in the premiere of Pénélope by Fauré in the Bayerische Staatsoper’s first ever performances of the oeuvre. Based on Homer’s Odyssey, Jovanovich stars as Ulysse premiering this Summer 2025. 

Last Season 2023/24, Jovanovich returned to the international stage with an array of exciting role reprisals around the globe. Jovanovich opened the season as the title role of Peter Grimes for his return to Teatro alla Scala, followed by performances as Gherman in The Queen of Spades at Bayerische Staatsoper in Winter 2024 and in the Summer Festival 2024. Jovanovich also returned to Berlin  as Dick Johnson in Lydia Steier’s production of La Fanciulla del West at Staatsoper Berlin. 

Season 2022/23 season, Jovanovich returned to the Metropolitan Opera in the revival of Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk followed by his return to Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona as Luigi in Il Tabarro. In the Winter of 2023, the tenor had a triumphant performance run as Laca in Jenufa at Palau des les Arts in Valencia. Jovanovich returned to Wiener Staatsoper as Florestan in Fidelio, and then debuted at Bergen National Opera in Rusalka. 

Season 2021/2022,  showcased Jovanovich’ mastery of skill and performance in his repertoire. Jovanovich returned to Deutsche Oper Berlin as Siegmund in Stefan Herheims’ new production of Die Walküre, conducted by Sir Donald Runnicles; to Covent Garden as the title role in Lohengrin, and Bacchus in Ariadne auf Naxos at the Metropolitan Opera. In June of 2022, Jovanovich performed alongside the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra under Maestro Yannick Nézet-Séguin for a concert performance of Act 1 of Die Walküre at Carnegie Hall. 

Jovanovich commands an especially wide repertoire ranging from Florestan in Fidelio to Wagnerian roles such as Siegmund in Die Walküre and the title roles in Lohengrin and Parsifal, as well as Cavaradossi in Tosca, Dick Johnson in La Fanciulla del West, Gherman in The Queen of Spades, Don José in Carmen, the title role in Don Carlos, and Enée in Les Troyens. He began the 2019/20 season with two significant role and house debuts: Canio in Pagliacci at the Dutch National Opera and Samson in Samson et Dalila at Staatsoper Berlin. In the 2018/19 season, Jovanovich appeared at Wiener Staatsoper as Enée, subsequently reprising the role in a new production at Opéra national de Paris. He returned to Deutsche Oper Berlin for his debut in the title role of Parsifal and to the San Francisco Opera as the Prince in Rusalka, a role he has sung often in theaters including the Metropolitan Opera, Wiener Staatsoper, Lyric Opera of Chicago, and Houston Grand Opera, as well as at the Glyndebourne Festival. He also returned to Bayerische Staatsoper as Dick Johnson, a role in which he debuted the season prior at Opernhaus Zürich.

Jovanovich made his much-anticipated house debut with Opéra national de Paris as Walther von Stolzing in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, a role he previously debuted at San Francisco Opera. He has appeared in Zürich in the title role of Lohengrin, as Florestan in Fidelio, and as the Prince in Rusalka. Jovanovich also appeared as Sergei in Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk for his debuts at Opernhaus Zürich, the Royal Opera House under Antonio Pappano, the 2017 Salzburg Festival in a production conducted by Marius Jansons, as well as at the Metropolitan Opera. Jovanovich returned to Salzburg in 2018 as Gherman in The Queen of Spades. He made his debuts at Wiener Staatsoper and Opera Australia as Don José in Carmen, which he has also performed at Bayerische Staatsoper, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Gran Teatre del Liceu, the Metropolitan Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago and more. 

Jovanovich’s has interpreted the role of Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly across the globe from the Metropolitan Opera, to Santa Fe Opera, Dallas Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, and San Francisco Opera, where it was broadcast in high-definition in movie theaters across the United States. He has also sung the title role of Lohengrin at Deutsche Oper Berlin and the San Francisco Opera; Siegmund in Die Walküre in Berlin, Chicago and San Francisco; Des Grieux in Manon Lescaut at La Monnaie in Brussels and in Munich; the title role in Les contes d’Hoffmann at Teatro alla Scala; the title role in Peter Grimes at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples; Bacchus in Ariadne auf Naxos in Munich, Chicago and at the Boston Lyric Opera; Florestan in Andreas Homoki’s new production of Fidelio at the Verbier Festival under the baton of Marc Minkowski; Enée in Les Troyens in Chicago; the title role in Don Carlos with the Houston Grand Opera; Walter in the Lyric Opera of Chicago’s production of Weinberg’s The Passenger; Sam in Michael Cavanagh’s new production of Floyd’s Susannah at the San Francisco Opera; and Cavaradossi in Tosca with the Canadian Opera Company, Oper Köln, Seattle Opera, Opéra national de Bordeaux, Vlaamse Opera in Belgium, and at the Bregenz Festival (which was featured in the James Bond film Quantum of Solace). 

Brandon Jovanovich has appeared in concert internationally, in such works as Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde, Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder, and the Verdi Requiem. He has also sung Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and San Francisco Symphony, both under the baton of Michael Tilson Thomas, and made his debut in Vienna performing Janacek’s Glagolitic Mass with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra.