Michelle Bradley is making her HGO mainstage debut as Mother in Breaking the Waves. In spring 2022, she gave a Live from the Cullen recital with Patrick Summers for HGO Digital. During the 2023-24 season, Bradley performed the title role in Aida with the Lyric Opera of Chicago. In concert she was heard as the soprano soloist in Barber’s Knoxville, Summer of 1915 with the Shepherd School Symphony Orchestra and Robert Spano; as the soprano soloist in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Des Moines Symphony; in a concert of opera arias and gospel, Morris and Friends, in Takoma Park; and in recital with the Tulsa Opera. Engagements during the 2024-25 season include an opera gala at Temple Emanu-El in New York City. Notable recent roles include Madame Lidoine in Dialogues of the Carmelites with the San Francisco Opera; the title role in Aida with Fort Worth Opera, the Savonlinna Opera Festival, and Prague State Opera; the title role in Tosca with Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Diego Opera, and Tulsa Opera; Donna Anna in Don Giovanni at Japan’s Hyogo Performing Arts Center; Liù in Turandot with the Metropolitan Opera; and many others. Bradley is a graduate of the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. She 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.