Bass-baritone Brian Bonin has benefitted from a sustained relationship with the touring company Peach State Opera. He most recently sang Zuniga in the company’s production of Bizet’s Carmen (2019-20) and has also performed all of the Mozart/DaPonte operas with the company – the title role in Don Giovanni (2016), Guglielmo in Così fan tutte (2014) and Count Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro (2012). In summer 2015, Brian performed Joseph DeRocher in Dead Man Walking for the Louisiana Concert Movement, with composer Jake Heggie and Sister Helen Prejean coaching the cast. He has also sung with the Lyric Opera Studio of Weimar (Germany), Opéra Louisiane, New Orleans Opera, Opera in the Ozarks, the Aspen Opera Theater Center, and LSU Opera Theater in roles such as Conte Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro, Guglielmo in Così fan tutte, Schaunard in La bohème, Count Ceprano in Rigoletto, Junius in The Rape of Lucretia, Voltaire/Pangloss/Cacambo/Martin in Candide, King Melchior in Amahl and the Night Visitors, the Speaker in Die Zauberflöte, and Johann in Werther. Brian earned the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in vocal performance from Louisiana State University and is an Assistant Chair in Fine Arts and Associate Professor of Music at Perimeter College of Georgia State University.