Paulo Szot

Paulo Szot is a Brazilian operatic baritone singer and actor. He made his opera debut in 1997 and his international career has included performances with the Metropolitan Opera, La Scala di Milano, Paris Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, Opera Australia, Liceo de Barcelona, among many others.

In 2008, he made his Broadway debut as Emile De Becque, reprising the roles in 2022 and 2026, in a revival of South Pacific, for which he won the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical, the Drama Desk Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award and the Theatre World Award. In 2012 he was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for best actor in a musical, and in 2014 was nominated for the MAC Award for best Celebrity Artist becoming the first Brazilian to receive such honors. His other stage credits include portraying the role of Juan Perón in the Sydney Opera House production of Evita, starring as Billy Flynn in the 2020/2021 cast of Broadway’s Chicago, and originating the role of Lance in the hit Broadway musical & Juliet. He starred in the London premiere of Stephen Sondheim's Here We Are in 2025 and later that year starred as Hades in the Broadway cast of Hadestown.