The Brazilian bass-baritone Rodrigo Cruz graduated with a Master’s degree in Voice Performance from Indiana State University in the USA in 2020. During his studies, Mr. Cruz won the Indiana State University School of Music Concerto/Aria Competition in 2019, which provided the opportunity to perform two arias accompanied by the university's orchestra. Before that, he had concluded the Preparatory course in Lyrical Singing in 2014 at the Music Conservatory of Pernambuco, in the city of Recife, Brazil. 

Since 2012, he has been performing as a soloist and chorist in several operas, concerts, recitals, and music festivals in the USA, Brazil, Germany, Paraguay, and Austria. Most recently, Mr. Cruz performed for the first time in Berlin, Germany, with the Berlin Opera Academy: in July, as Papageno and 2nd Armored Man in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, conducted by Matthew Toogood and directed by Alan Hicks; in August, he debuted in the role title of Puccini's Gianni Schicchi, conducted by Carlos Spierer and directed by Nic Muni.

Mr. Cruz has performed in a variety of operas, including Puccini's La Bohème, as Marcello; Mozart’s Don Giovanni, as Masetto; Menotti’s The Telephone, as Ben; Bizet’s Carmen, as Escamillo; Donizetti’s Rita, as Gasparo; and Rossini’s La Cambiale di Matrimonio, as Tobia Mill. Mr. Cruz won the Opera Prize at the 14th Maria Callas Brazilian Singing Contest in 2016, providing him with the opportunity to perform the role of Schaunard in Puccini’s La Bohème in the city of São Paulo. Subsequently, he was invited to perform the same role in Asunción, Paraguay, by the Arandu Purahéi National Symphony Orchestra.

As a soloist, he also performed Mozart's Requiem; Schubert’s Mass in G Major, D167; Gounod’s Messe Brève no. 7 in C; Beethoven's Choral Fantasy; Orff's Carmina Burana; Guarnieri’s Missa Dilígite; and Villani-Côrtes’ Quinta-feira Santa.

Nowadays, he lives in Leipzig and expects to perform in January 2023 in a musical project of Baroque music from Latin America conducted by Frederico Baron Mussi, and supported by the Thomaskirche and Forum Thomanum.