by BBermudez | Apr 24, 2016 | News & Events
San Diego Story
San Diego Opera’s Madama Butterfly’ Vocal Paradise
by Ken Herman, April 18th 2016
Baritone Bernardo Bermudez created an unusually mellifluous and sympathetic Prince Yamadori, the suitor who would rescue the abandoned Cio-Cio San
http://www.sandiegostory.com/san-diego-operas-madama-butterfly-vocal-paradise/
Backtrack
Latonia Moore a shimmering Madama Butterfly in San Diego
by Erica Miner, April 17th, 2016
“Company team players Scott Sikon and Bernardo Bermudez were appealing as Bonze and Yamadori respectively.”
https://bachtrack.com/review-madama-butterfly-latonia-moore-san-diego-april-2016
Opera Today
San Diego Opera Presents a Tragic Madama Butterfly
By Maria Nockin April 23rd, 2016
“As is usual with San Diego Opera, committed fine artists inhabited the smaller roles. J’Nai Bridges was a caring and compliant Suzuki. Joseph Hu was a thoroughly amusing Goro, Scott Sikon a frightening Bonze, and Bernardo Bermudez a pretentious Yamadori.”
http://www.operatoday.com/content/2016/04/san_diego_opera.php
by BBermudez | Oct 9, 2015 | Videos
Video performances with Marina Del Rey Symphony Summer 2015
Largo Al Factotum from Rossini’s il Barbiere di Siviglia
Luche la fe por el triunfo from Moreno Torroba’s Luisa Fernanda
by BBermudez | May 31, 2015 | News & Events
Splash Magazine
Faust Review-West Bay Opera’s Futuristic Take on a Classic
By Steve & Suzanne Cooper, May 2015
“Two other newcomers to this company were also outstanding. Bernardo Bermudez, in the role of Valentin, Marguerite’s soldier brother, delivered a beautiful haunting solo in his first appearance, bemoaning the fact that he was leaving his sister to go to war….”
http://www.lasplash.com/publish/Entertainment/cat_index_san_francisco_performances/faust-review.php
Repeat Performances and the Piedmont Post
West Bay Opera delivers triumphant Faust
By Adam Broner, May 22, 2015
“Bernardo Bermúdez was a sterling Valentin with a golden baritone….”
San Francisco Classical Voice
Not a Dull Moment in West Bay Opera’s Dystopian Faust
By Charlise Tiee, May 25, 2015
“Baritone Bernardo Bermudez made for an earnest Valentin with his dry, pleasant voice….”
https://www.sfcv.org/reviews/West-Bay-Opera/Not-a-Dull-Moment-in-West-Bay-Opera-s-Dystopian-lt-em-gt-Faust-lt-/em-gt
San Jose Mercury News
A magnificent ‘Faust’ staged by West Bay Opera
By John Orr, May 23, 2015
“All the other principals — Bernard Bermudez as Valentin, Molly Mahoney as Siebel, Patrict Houston as Marthe and Ryan Bradford as Wagner — are in excellent voice….”
http://www.mercurynews.com/peninsula/ci_28179265/magnificent-production-faust-staged-by-west-bay-opera
by BBermudez | Oct 2, 2014 | News & Events
San Francisco Classical Voice
Ravishing, Rich Rigoletto at Livermore Valley Opera
By Steven Winn, September 27th, 2014
“Bernardo Bermudez captured the Mantuan courtier Marullo’s bored corruption effectively. A luridly yellow costume, by designer Abra Berman, supplied visual amplification of the point.”
https://www.sfcv.org/reviews/livermore-valley-opera/ravishing-rich-rigoletto-at-livermore-valley-opera
by BBermudez | Aug 10, 2014 | News & Events
St. Louis Today, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
A Streetcar Named Desire’ makes a welcome stop at Union Avenue Opera
By Sarah Bryan Miller
August 02, 2014
Bernardo Bermudez was an appropriately hunky Stanley, with a big, burnished baritone and excellent diction….
BroadwayWorld (BWW) OperaWorld.com Reviews: A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE Shines at Union Avenue Opera
By Steve Callahan
August 5, 2014
Baritone Bernardo Bermudez is very much at home in the role of Stanley. He’s vocally strong, as well as proud, fit and comfortable in Stanley’s iconic masculinity. It’s a splendid job.
Blanche, Stella and Mitch all have lyrical arias or ariettas. Only Stanley is without one. But what is an aria? It’s the verbal expression of a character’s inner feelings. Stanley, the iconic male, is not verbally articulate; he expresses himself not with words but with his body, his muscle, his hands. So, alas, though Bernardo Bermudez deserves one, Stanley should really not have an aria.
Ladue News
Operatic Form Fits ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’: Opera Review
By Mark Bretz
August 4, 2014
Bernardo Bermudez and Katherine Giaquinto share sparks of chemistry that show how Stanley’s primordial impulses brings out Stella’s lusty, earthy nature. Their verbal sparring is offset by the obvious sexual delight in each other, which makes Stanley’s brutish assaults on her all the more shocking. Both performers bring convincing acting and singing to their roles.
KDHX 88.1 Independent Music Plays Here
Andre Previn’s music for ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ falls somewhat short of expectations
By Gary Scott
August 2014
Bernardo Bermudez as Stanley Kowalski and Anthony Wright Webb as “Mitch” Mitchell were likewise well-matched. Both men resonated with warmth and vigor, exuding a rugged yet vulnerable rawness that just might have pleased Tennessee Williams.
