Paulo Szot

"Paulo Szot sings with a power that sweeps you off your feet " - The New York Times (Stephen Holden) Paulo Szot is one of the most acclaimed and versatile baritones in the world having garnered international acclaim as an opera singer, an award winning musical theatre star, a consummate concert performer and an actor. Paulo Szot was born in São Paulo and raised in Ribeirão Pires, Brazil. He began his musical training at the age of five, first studying piano and later adding violin and dance. Szot studied at the Jagiellonian University in Poland, the country from which his parents had emigrated following World War II. In 2008, Szot was cast as Emile De Becque in the Broadway revival of South Pacific at Lincoln Center Theatre, directed by Bartlett Sher. He was awarded the Tony Award, Drama Desk, Outer Critic’s Circle and Theater World Awards for his portrayal, becoming one of a few actors to receive such honors on a Broadway debut. With more than 70 opera productions in his résumé since 1997, Szot had his Metropolitan Opera debut in 2010 as Kovalyov in The Nose by Dimitri Shostakovich, conducted by Valery Gergiev and directed by William Kentridge. In 2019 will continue to appear in Opera Australia’s Evita as Juan Peron in Melbourne; also appeared with OSESP, in Brazil and recorded his first album in his homeland, “Jardim Noturno – Canções e Obras para Piano de Claudio Santoro”