Brett Polegato's artistic sensibility within the realm of the adventurous has earned him the highest praise from critics and jurors: "his is a serious and seductive voice" says the Globe and Mail, and the New York Times has praised him for his "burnished, well-focused voice" which he uses with "considerable intelligence and nuance." At the Inaugural Gala Concert for the Canadian Opera Company's new home, the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, he "nearly stole the show with a strong and characterful performance of Figaro's cocky Largo al factotum". He has already appeared on several of the world's most distinguished stages in nineteen countries, including those of Lincoln Center, La Scala, the Concertgebouw, the Opéra National de Paris, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston Grand Opera, the Teatro Real, Roy Thomson Hall, and Carnegie Hall, and participated as soloist in the Grammy Awards' Best Classical Recording of 2003 - Vaughan Williams' A Sea Symphony (Telarc) with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Robert Spano.

Brett Polegato opens the 2007/2008 season with a return to Seattle Opera where he makes his role debut as Orestes in Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride. He then travels to Salt Lake City in November to perform Mahler's Lieder eines fahrenden gesellen with the Utah Symphony. December finds Brett once again in Geneva, singing Papageno in an exciting new production of Mozart's Die Zauberflöte for the Opéra de Genève. In the New Year, he will make a rare concert appearance in Toronto, singing songs to the poetry of Walter de la Mare as part of the Aldeburgh Connection's recital series. His season culminates in a return engagement with the Canadian Opera Company, where he appears for the first time in the title role of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin in May.

During the 2006/2007 season, Brett Polegato appeared with the Toronto Symphony for performances of Mahler's Des Knaben Wunderhorn and Beethoven's Ninth Symphony; the NDR Hannover in Handel's cantata, Apollo e Dafne, with conductor Emmanuelle Haïm; and the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Bach's Magnificat. In the New Year, he returned to the Minnesota Orchestra, singing Brahms' Ein Deutsches Requiem with Roger Norrington conducting, and to the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, led by Robert Spano, for performances of Vaughan Williams' A Sea Symphony. On the operatic stage, Brett returned to the Opéra National de Lyon for the role of the Heerrufer in Lohengrin. and made his debut with the Canadian Opera Company as Valentin in Faust. Other operatic appearances included Dandini in La Cenerentola at Calgary Opera, Harlequin in Ariadne auf Naxos at Geneva Opera and Yeletsky in Pique Dame at Vlaamse Opera.

Brett appears frequently in the title role of Pelléas et Mélisande, including new productions at Strasbourg's Opéra National du Rhin, at the Leipzig Opera conducted by Marc Minkowski, and in Munich with Marcello Viotti. Pelléas was also the role which marked his Paris Opera debut in September of 2004, and he returned there as Frère Léon in Messiaen's St. François d'Assise later that season. In 2000, he made his La Scala debut as Ned Keene in Peter Grimes and his Chicago Lyric Opera debut the previous season singing Peter Niles in Mourning Becomes Electra. In 2004, Mr. Polegato made his New York City Opera debut to critical acclaim as the Count in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, and recently collaborated with Maestro Seiji Osawa in performances of Peter Grimes both in Matsumoto, Japan and at Florence's Maggio Musicale. Other operatic performances include Wiedhopf in Braunfels' Die Vögel and Fritz in Die tote Stadt both for the Opéra de Genève, the title role in Il Barbiere di Siviglia and Papageno in Die Zauberflöte Zauberflöte and the title role of Don Giovanni all with Vancouver Opera, Zurga in Les Pêcheurs de Perles with Calgary Opera, Dandini in La Cenerentola for the Opéra de Montréal, Guglielmo in Così fan tutte for Scottish Opera and also for the Opéra National de Toulouse, the Steward in Jonathan Dove's Flight for the Vlaamse Opera and the Glyndebourne Festival Opera.

Equally at ease on the concert and recital stages, Mr. Polegato made his Carnegie Hall recital debut at Weill Recital Hall in May 2003 with pianist, Warren Jones, and returned the following year with the Atlanta Symphony to reprise their Grammy Award winning performance of A Sea Symphony. He is a frequent guest artist with the Bayerisher Rundfunkorchester in Munich and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, as well as with most of the other major U.S. and Canadian orchestras. In 2005, he made his highly-acclaimed debut with the Cleveland Orchestra, in a programme which included Vaughan Williams' Five Mystical Songs and Fauré's Requiem. He has appeared as soloist with Leonard Slatkin and the National Symphony Orchestra in Walton's Belshazzar's Feast at Wolf Trap, the Chicago Symphony in the U.S. premiere of Saariaho's Cinq Reflets, the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Mahler orchestral lieder, and Zemlinsky's Lyric Symphony with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. In 2002, he returned to the London BBC Proms for a concert performance of Ravel's L'heure espagnole with Noseda conducting, and rejoined the National Symphony Orchestra at Washington D.C.'s Kennedy Center for Brahms' Ein Deutches Requiem. He has performed Handel's Messiah with the Toronto Symphony and Sir Andrew Davis, with the Handel & Haydn Society under Andrew Parrott. As a recitalist, Mr. Polegato appears frequently throughout North America and Europe, and is particularly noted for his programming choices and wide range of repertoire. He has premiered several new works, including a work written for him by Malcolm Forsythe, to the poetry of various poets including Dylan Thomas.

Polegato's discography shifts as seamlessly through genres as his live appearances. Recordings include the Vaughn Williams' A Sea Symphony, his critically praised solo disc, To A Poet, with pianist Iain Burnside, on CBC Records, an Analekta-Fleur de Lys disc of Bach's popular Coffee and Peasant Cantatas with the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, and a live period-instrument performance of Messiah by the Handel & Haydn Society on Arabesque Recordings. In March 2000, CBC Records released a disc entitled Opera Encores that joined him with tenor Benjamin Butterfield and the Canadian Opera Company Orchestra led by Richard Bradshaw. His opera recordings include Emmerich Kálmán's jazz-infused operetta Die Herzogin von Chicago (Decca) with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, and Gluck's Armide with Les Musiciens du Louvre, on the Deutsche Grammophon's Archiv label.

He finished first among the men at the 1995 Cardiff Singer of the World Competition and was awarded the William Matheus Sullivan Foundation Grant for opera. Mr. Polegato is represented exclusively by Simon Goldstone at IMG Artists.