REPERTOIRE
Opera + Operetta (by Composer)
- Bizet
- Carmen
- El Remendado
- Cilea
- Adriana Lecouvreur
- L’Abate di Chazeuil
- Floyd
- Cold Sassy Tree
- Will Tweedy
- Floyd
- Susannah
- Little Bat McLean
- Humperdinck
- Hänsel und Gretel
- The Witch
- Kalman
- Countess Maritza
- Baron Zsupan
- Lehar
- The Merry Widow
- Camille
- Leoncavallo
- I Pagliacci
- Beppe
- Menotti
- Amahl and the Night Visitors
- King Kaspar
- Menotti
- The Consul
- The Magician
- Menotti
- The Medium
- Toby
- Moore
- The Ballad of Baby Doe
- Sam (First Crony)
- Mozart
- Die Entführung aus dem Serail
- Pedrillo
- Mozart
- Le Nozze di Figaro
- Basilio/Curzio
- Mozart
- Die Zauberflöte
- Monostatos
- Offenbach
- Les Contes d’Hoffmann
- The 4 Servants, Nathanael
- Offenbach
- La Périchole
- Piquillo
- Prokovieff
- L’Amour des Trois Oranges
- Trouffaldino
- Puccini
- Madama Butterfly
- Goro
- Puccini
- Tosca
- Spoletta
- Puccini
- Turandot
- Pang or Pong
- Smetana
- The Bartered Bride
- Vasek
- Strauss, J.
- Die Fledermaus
- Eisenstein or Dr. Blind
- Strauss, R.
- Ariadne auf Naxos
- Tanzmeister, Scaramuccio
- Strauss, R.
- Elektra
- Der Junger Diener
- Strauss, R.
- Der Rosenkavalier
- Valzacchi
- Strauss, R.
- Salome
- Zweiter Jude
- Sullivan
- The Gondoliers
- Marco or Luiz
- Sullivan
- Iolanthe
- Strephon
- Sullivan
- The Mikado
- Nanki-Poo
- Sullivan
- The Pirates of Penzance
- Frederic
- Sullivan
- Trial by Jury
- The Defendant
- Sullivan
- The Yeomen of the Guard
- Fairfax
- Verdi
- Falstaff
- Dr. Caius or Bardolfo
- Verdi
- La Traviata
- Gastone
- Verdi
- Il Trovatore
- Ruiz
- Wagner
- Der Meistersinger von Nürnberg
- David
- Wagner
- Das Rheingold
- Loge/Mime
Musical Theater Roles (alphabetized by show)
- Assassins
- The Balladeer
- Bat Boy
- Bat Boy
- The Boyfriend
- Bobby
- Carousel
- Mr. Snow
- Chess
- Freddie
- Evita
- Che
- Falsettos
- Whizzer
- Fiddler on the Roof
- Motel
- Hello, Dolly!
- Cornelius
- How to Succeed in Business w/out Really Trying
- J. Pierpont Finch
- Into the Woods
- Jack
- Jesus Christ Superstar
- Jesus or Judas
- Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
- Joseph
- The King and I
- Lun Tha
- The Life
- Jo Jo
- A Little Night Music
- Henrik
- Little Shop of Horrors
- Seymor
- Man of La Mancha
- Sancho Panza
- Me and My Girl
- The Family Solicitor
- Merrily We Roll Along
- Charlie
- A New Brain
- Gordon Schwinn
- Titanic
- Barrett, Fleet, Murdoch, Bride
- Sweeney Todd
- Tobias
- Urinetown
- Bobby Strong
ABOUT
Biography
Armenian-American character tenor Brett Noorigian Colby is garnering acclaim throughout the U.S and Europe for his strong comedic and vocal skills. In his European debut, he joined Theater Görlitz (Germany), singing the roles of Nathanaël and The Four Servants (The Tales of Hoffmann), for which German papers commented that he "mastered his diverse roles vocally, theatrically, and with immaculate diction."
This season, Brett sings Basilio/Curzio (Le Nozze di Figaro) with Green Mountain Opera Festival, Njegus (The Merry Widow) with Manahattan Lyric Opera in Ft. Lauderdale, and the Tenor in Handel's Messiah and Goro (Madama Butterfly), both with Boheme Opera (a role he has also sung with Virginia Opera, Anchorage Opera, Opera Illinois, Midland Symphony (MI), Metro Lyric Opera (NJ) and Cedar Rapids Opera). Other recent engagements include The Four Servants (The Tales of Hoffman) with Theatre Goerlitz (Germany); Beppe (I Pagliacci) with Opera Delaware; Spoletta (Tosca) and Blind (Die Fledermaus) with Opera Illinois; Basilio/Curzio (Nozze di Figaro) with Connecticut Grand Opera; Camille (The Merry Widow) with Rimrock Opera; Piquillo (La Perichole) with West Bay Opera; El Remendado (Carmen) with Mobile Opera; Bardolfo (Falstaff), Little Bat (Susannah), and Basilio/Curzio (Le Nozze di Figaro) with Cedar Rapids Opera. As an Apprentice Artist at Utah Festival Opera and Sarasota Opera, Brett was seen as Little Bat (Susannah), Professor (South Pacific), Florenze (Naughty Marietta), and Tanzmeister (Ariadne auf Naxos).
Equally at home on musical theatre stages, Brett has starred in and recorded albums for two original musicals in New York: Vivianna (a re-telling of La Traviata) and My Heinous Life, for which NYC papers said, "Brett's commanding tenor voice and sure stage presence kept the nonsense moving briskly", and was dubbed "sweet candy." Other musical theatre roles to his credit are Jesus in Jesus Christ Superstar, a modernized version of The Pirates of Penzance at NYC's South Street Seaport, and two summers in Elmira, NY and Hartford, CT, portraying Young Mark Twain in Mark Twain: The Musical. He has been featured in the independent comedy film The War on the War on Drugs, and been heard frequently on Power 105.1 FM's "Dr. Dre in the Morning" Show, singing operatic renditions of popular Rap songs in a segment called "Hip-Hopera."
A resident of Asbury Park, NJ, Brett currently serves as President of the Arts Coalition of Asbury Park.
Contact Information
Harwood Management, Inc.
P.O. Box 250390, Columbia University Station
New York, NY 10025
phone: 212.663.2447 or 212.864.0773
fax: 212.663.1129
email: jim@harwood-management.com
EDUCATION + OTHER
Education
Music Theater Bavaria (Oberaudorf, Germany) - Richard Owens, dir., 2002
Rowan College (Glassboro, NJ) - B.M. Vocal Performance, 1997
Stagedoor Manor Theatre Arts Training Center, 1989-1992
Other
APPRENTICE PROGRAMS
- Utah Festival Opera
- Michael Ballam, Mary Shearer
- 2001
- Sarasota Opera
- Roger Bingaman, Greg Trupiano
- 2002
CONDUCTORS
- Barbara Day Turner
- Jacques Lacombe
- Jerome Shannon
- Gerald Steichen
- Peter Mark
- Anton Coppola
- Fiora Contino
- Jeanine Wagar
VOICE
- Kamel Boutros
- Katherine Johnson
DIRECTORS
- David Grabarkowitz
- Tim Coleman
- Marc Astafan
- Dorothy Danner
- James Marvel
- Shaun Churchman
- Ellen Schlaefer
- Reegan MacKenzie
ACTING
- Bijan Ahsef-Jah
- Jack Romano
COACHES
- William Hicks
- Gary Norden
- Liz Hastings
- Eric Malson
- Emily Hamper
- Mitchell Cirker
- Nathalie Doucet
- Anthony Laciura
DANCE
- Rolann Owens
- Rusty Curcio
Other Skills
Experienced Trombonist, Conversational in German & French