Paulo Szot received a Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Theatre World Awards for his Broadway debut in South Pacific at the Lincoln Center Theater and an Olivier nomination for the same production at the Barbican, London. He was born in São Paulo and studied at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. Other work in musical theatre: My Fair Lady, Candide, Chicago (Sao Paulo); Evita (Sydney, Melbourne, The Muny);Chicago, & Juliet on Broadway, Here We Are at Royal National Theatre (London). Opera: ten seasons with the Metropolitan Opera; collaborations with La Scala, Paris Opera,Teatro Real (Madrid), Bayerische Staatsoper, Canadian Opera, Washington Opera, San Francisco Opera, Opera di Roma, Opéra de Bordeaux, and Opéra de Marseille. Concerts: multiple collaborations with Chicago Symphony, New York Philharmonic, New York Pops, American Pops, OSESP, Barcelona Symphony and Philadelphia Orchestra. Albums include Jardim Noturno; Broadway cast recordings: South Pacific and & Juliet.