“A real man. Velvet and silk. Strikingly handsome. A powerhouse of a voice. He puts all his colleagues in the shade. His name: Vitor Bispo. Brazilian. Already a member of an opera studio in his home country. Since last season, a member of the Opera Studio of the Bavarian State Opera. He has already appeared in small roles on the main stage. At the Cuvilliés Theatre, he is allowed to sing the torero role that seems tailor-made for him in the world’s most frequently performed opera. Strong applause.” ------Carmen (Concert - Cuvilliés Theatre) ------Tabularasa Magazin - Bravissimo, Torero! "Vitor Bispo brilliantly sang the role of Papageno." ------Papageno ------Belcanto.ru “The cast (on 21st March) were superb, but the vocal honours went to Vitor Bispo’s Count.  Whether attired in a soft silk dressing gown or martial black boots, the Brazilian baritone exuded musical and dramatic authority – both charm and menace.  But, it was also evident that the Count’s sexual (and thus political and patriarchal) domination of his court was under threat, the revolutionary context highlighted by the production’s understated but subtle interrogation of social tyranny and privilege abused.  He might wield axes, to hack his way into his wife’s dressing room, and revolvers, but this Count’s bristling machismo both reflected the opera’s sexual tensions and signalled that the number was up for his droit du seigneur.  ‘Vedrò, mentr’io sospiro’ was masterly, Bispo’s baritone beautifully supple and strong, and his command of the stage consummate, while the Count’s honeyed plea for forgiveness in Act 4, often an ambiguous moment, here persuaded.” ------Conte di Almaviva ------Opera Today