Fri, Nov 15 at 7:30 PM
New World Center
Friday, November 15 at 7:30 PM
Saturday, November 16 at 7:30 PM
Sunday, November 17 at 2:00 PM
- Carlos Miguel Prieto, conductor
- Michelle Bradley, soprano
Program
- Ortiz : Hominum: Suite for Orchestra
- Barber : Knoxville: Summer of 1915
- Dvořák : Symphony No. 9, “From the New World”
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Michelle Bradley, a native of Houston, Texas, is in her final year of the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. She has performed a variety of roles, including Mozart’s Fiordiligi and Donna Anna, Richard Strauss’ Marschallin and Verdi’s Alice Ford.
This season Ms. Bradley returned to the Metropolitan Opera as Clotilde in the new David McVicar production of Norma, which opened its season. She will also appear in Santiago, Chile as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni. On the concert stage she will make her debut at the May Festival in Verdi’s Requiem, sing R. Strauss’ Four Last Songs with the Santa Cruz Symphony, a program of Chausson and Caplet chamber works with the New World Symphony and solo recitals in Palm Beach and Santiago. Future engagements include a debut in a leading role in Frankfurt and a return to the concert stage in Paris.
In the Metropolitan Opera’s 2016-17 season, Ms. Bradley made debuts in Mozart’s Idomeneo and as the High Priestess in Verdi’s Aida. Other engagements included recitals at the Théâtre du Châtelet and New York’s Park Avenue Armory, and a return to Santa Cruz for Verdi’s Requiem.
In January 2016 Ms. Bradley performed in Carnegie Hall’s Neighborhood Recital Series in honor of Marilyn Horne, and in May she made her debut singing Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Santa Cruz Symphony. Prior to that, she completed a nationwide recital tour ending in May of 2015.
Ms. Bradley is the 2017 recipient of the Leonie Rysanek Award from the George London Foundation, the 2016 recipient of the Hildegard Behrens Foundation Award and a first-place winner in the Gerda Lissner and the Serge and Olga Koussevitzky vocal competitions. She is the 2014 grand-prize winner of The Music Academy of the West’s Marilyn Horne Song Competition.
Ms. Bradley received her master of music degree in vocal performance from Bowling Green State University. She has participated in master classes with Stephanie Blythe, Anne Sofie von Otter, Marilyn Horne, Deborah Voigt, James Morris and Renata Scotto.