Cork Baritone Brendan Collins trained at the Cork School of Music under Robert Beare, and at the D.I.T. Conservatory, and in 2007 was granted a scholarship to study at the opera studio of Theatre de la Monnaie in Brussels under renowned bass-baritone José van Dam. In 2005 he was one of only 12 Irish singers to take part in the first Wexford Festival Young Artists programme. His roles include Almaviva/Figaro Figaro, Marcello La boheme, Escamillo Carmen, Germont La Traviata, Tonio Pagliacci, Masetto Don Giovanni, Marullo Rigoletto, Elviro Xerses, Aeneas Dido & Aeneas, Fiorello The Barber of Seville, Baron Duphol La Traviata, Captain Petrovich Eugene Onegin, and Yamadori Madama Butterfly.