Tenor Brendan Daly has sung a wide range of roles on stages across the country, specializing in Mozart, the high-flying bel canto works of Rossini and Donizetti, Baroque repertoire, operetta / musical theatre, and contemporary opera.
This spring, Brendan finishes a two-season residency at Opera Colorado. High points with the company include The Barber of Seville (Almaviva) and The Tales of Hoffmann (Nathanael) with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra; state-wide tours of Romeo and Juliet (Romeo), The Music Shop (Ivan), and La Cenerentola (Ramiro); a mainstage cover of Ferrando in Cosi fan tutte; and a number of high-profile recital, event, and radio engagements.
While in Denver, he also made notable oratorio appearances with the Colorado Chamber Players in Handel's Messiah and Bach Cantatas 184 and 140. He returns to Colorado in August to sing the Bruckner Requiem at the Colorado Music Festival.
Continuing a new foray into music of the Baroque era, Brendan will then appear at the White Mountain Bach Festival as Acis in Handel's Acis and Galatea. He will also sing Bach's Cantata 110 with the Festival Orchestra and Chorus, followed by recital performances in Boston.
Deeply committed to new music, Brendan appeared at the 2008 Aspen Festival as the central character in Mason Bates' new opera California Fictions. His twentieth-century music credits include Candide in a Bernstein on Broadway program with the Boston Pops, the Wise Man in Hindemith’s Hin und Zurück at the Tanglewood Contemporary Music Festival, solo appearances in Opera Boston's acclaimed production of Kurt Weil's Mahagonny, and, most recently, a Denver performance of Benjamin Britten's song cycle Les Illuminations de Rimbaud.
A native of Atlanta, GA, Brendan earned his BA from Harvard in Music and Romance Languages and Literatures before beginning vocal training at the Longy School of Music, where he received his Master's in 2004. He has been a Tanglewood Fellow and recently completed the Young Artist Program with Opera Theatre of Saint Louis.
June 12, 2010
