B i o g r a p h y

Lauded for his rich bass voice and compelling storytelling, Vincent Graña has delighted audiences across the country. He has performed with Opera Santa Barbara as Noye (Noye’s Fludde), The Officer (Il barbiere di Siviglia), and Colline in their 25th anniversary season production of Puccini’s La Bohème. He has since reprised the role of Colline with Pacific Opera Project and Dayton Opera. With Dayton Opera he also performed Zuniga (Carmen). Other previous engagements include Simone (Gianni Schicchi) with Martina Arroyo’s Prelude to Performance, Bartolo (Il barbiere di Siviglia) with the Aspen Opera Center as a Fellowship Artist, and Spanish Sailor and Gardiner cover (Moby Dick) with Opera San Jose. With Teatro Nuovo he has appeared as Il Priore (La Straniera), Podestà (La Gazza Ladra), Mirabolano (Crispino e La Comare), and will be returning this season as Alessio in La Sonnambula. With Opera Theater Rutgers he debuted the roles of Bottom in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Pangloss in Candide, as well as reprising the role of Colline (La Bohème).

 

Mr. Graña is equally comfortable on the concert stage. With the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra, he has performed Bach’s Cantata 80, Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy, Handel’s Messiah, and Rafael and Adam in Haydn’s The Creation. His concert repertoire also includes the Mozart Requiem, the Verdi Requiem, Brahms’ Vier Ernste Gesänge, and Mussorgsky’s Songs and Dances of Death.

 

Since 2019 he has joined the Metropolitan Opera chorus in their productions of Götterdämmerung, Lohengrin, and Der fliegende Holländer, Aïda, Fidelio, and will be returning next season in Turandot.

 

Mr. Graña has been a Philadelphia District Winner and a Los Angeles District Encouragement Award recipient in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. He has also received multiple grants from Southern California’s Opera Buffs.

 

He received his B. M Magna Cum Laude in Music Education, M.M. in Vocal Performance, and D.M.A. in Vocal Performance from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. At Rutgers, Mr. Graña has received many awards for academic and performing achievements including the Presser Foundation Award (2009) and the Michael Fardink Memorial Award (2010 & 2025). He has also trained under the baton of Maestro Lorin Maazel at the Castleton Festival, renowned artist Samuel Ramey at the Crested Butte Music Festival, and with legendary coach Joan Dornemann at the International Vocal Arts Institute in New York, Montréal, and Tel Aviv.