Mr. Brisbon has enjoyed both national and international success as an operatic tenor. His lead roles include Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, Hoffmann in Tales of Hoffmann, Count Almaviva in The Barber of Seville, Sportin’ Life in Porgy and Bess, Tchekalinsky in Pique Dame, Ernesto in Don Pasquale, Joe in Carmen Jones, and Zoogy in Carly Simon’s Romulus Hunt. Mr. Brisbon has appeared with Orlando Opera Company, Edmonton Opera (Alberta, Canada), Opera Ebony/Opera North, The Metropolitan Opera Guild, The Kennedy Center, Lake George Opera Festival, the Bienale Festival of Munich, Germany, Ashlawn Opera Festival, The Pennsylvania Opera Theater, and Opera Ebony. Mr. Brisbon has been honored to sing leading roles with several notable composers, directors, and conductors, including Gian Carlo Menotti, John Demain, Eduardo Müller, Karen Keltner, Francesca Zambello, Mark Lamos, Wesley Balk, Tania Léon, André Raphael, Barbra Silverstein, and Carly Simon. He has also appeared at Carnegie Hall, Teatro Colón Buenos Aires, Municipal São Paulo, Teatro Sols Montevideo, and the Virgin Islands. Equally comfortable in recital and oratorio, he has appeared as a soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra as Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Undine Smith-Moore’s Scene From The Life Of A Marty, the South New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, and the Lancaster Symphony, among others. He has also performed lead roles in Musicals for Equity Theatre companies such as Jim in Big River and the Phantom in the premiere of The Phantom of the 187th St. Playground for Bushfire Theater Company. Honors include: Winner of the Luciano Pavarotti-Opera Company of Philadelphia International Voice Competition, Liberace Foundation, recipient of the Richard Gold Memorial Award of the Shoshona Foundation, winner of the National Society of Arts and Letters Award, Mid. Atlantic Region, twice First Place winner of the Mario Lanza Competition, recipient of the Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation Grant, recipient of the Philadelphia Music Foundation Grant, and winner of the W. Russell Johnson Award and the Esther Boyer Student Soloist Award. Mr. Brisbon was also featured in the acclaimed book by author Elaine Mack, Black Classical Musicians of Philadelphia: Oral Histories Covering Four Generations. 

Perry Brisbon has given masterclasses for the Pittsburgh Unified Auditions and served as a vocal clinician and adjudicator for national high school musical theatre auditions, the National H.S. Jazz Festival, and the Virginia Thespians scholarship auditions. 

Perry Brisbon earned a Doctor of Music Education from Liberty University, a Master of Opera degree from the Curtis Institute of Music, received a Professional Studies Certificate from Temple University, and completed his B.A. in Vocal Performance from Temple University via Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, where he pursued a double major in Theatre and Drama and Music.