A B o U T

Adrian Ira is a musician, writer and visual artist working in various genres.

As a lyricist and composer his output includes pop, country, indie-rock, folk and classical. His original composition, Quietly Waiting, appears on Juno and Gramophone Award winning vocalist Emily D’Angelo’s new record, freezing, available now from Deutsche Grammophon. He has produced several albums of original solo material and is one half of the country outfit, The Kramer Brothers.  In 2023 his song, Painted Flowers, was integrated into Hogfish Festival’s adaptation of Bizet’s Carmen, CARMXN, in Portland, Maine.

Adrian Ira was educated at The Juilliard School and The Curtis Institute of Music. As a professional operatic tenor he has appeared with many prominent theatres, including Komische Oper Berlin, Israeli Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Canadian Opera Company, Opera Philadelphia, San Diego Opera and Opera Omaha. On the concert stage he has been heard at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, The Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. and the Steans Institute at the Ravinia Festival.  In February of 2025 he stars as Tom Rakewell in the David Hockney production of Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress with Opera Omaha.

As a visual artist his work has been exhibited in Toronto’s Distillery District and at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art in Omaha, Nebraska, as part of Opera Omaha’s 2019 ONE Festival. That same year his drawings were featured as part of the design concept for Opera Omaha’s production of Philip Glass’s, Les Enfants Terribles.