Brent Reilly Turner

American tenor Brent Reilly Turner has been critically acclaimed across the United States. Turner’s appearances in opera, concert and recital have been characterized as having a full, dramatic timbre, energetic personality and unique honesty. In the 2017-’18 season, Turner makes his company debuts with Heartbeat Opera and Opera Birmingham in the role of Don Jose in Bizet’s Carmen and Brook’s The Tragedy of Carmen. In 2016, he also debuted with Austin Opera and Atlanta Opera and will be returning for Austin Opera’s 2017 production of Bizet’s Carmen. Turner was named the Grand Prize Winner in the 2015 McCammon Voice Competition, the 2015 James Toland Vocal Competition, the 2015 New Jersey State Opera Competition, the 2014 Peter Elvins Competition, the 2014 Mary Jacobs Singer of th