Raehann Bryce-Davis is making her HGO debut as Azucena in Il trovatore. Other highlights of her 2024-25 season include Dalila in Samson et Dalila at New Orleans Opera, Marfa in Khovanshchina at Grand Théâtre de Genève, and Marina in Boris Godunov at Dutch National Opera. During the 2023-24 season she made her house debut at Oper im Steinbruch performing as Amneris in Aida and sang the roles of Jezibaba in Rusalka at Santa Fe Opera; Fricka in Das Rheingold with LA Philharmonic, Lizzie in 10 Days in a Madhouse at Opera Philadelphia; Ella in X, the Life and Times of Malcolm X at Detroit Opera and the Metropolitan Opera; and La Zia Principessa in Il trittico at Dutch National Opera. Recent highlights include her returns to both LA Opera and the Staatstheater Nürnberg as Azucena in Il trovatore, as well as performances at La Monnaie de Munt, Brussels as Zia Principessa in Il trittico. Additional credits include Leonora in La favorite at the Teatro Massimo di Palermo, Ms. Alexander in Satyagraha at Opera Ballet Vlaanderen, and Wellgunde in Wagner’s Ring cycle at Theater an der Wien. She produced the digital short, Brown Sounds, which won Best Music Video at the New York International Film Awards, New York Cinematography Awards, Hollywood Boulevard Film Awards, and the Silk Road Film Awards in Cannes. Bryce-Davis is a 2018 recipient of the George London Award, the first place and Audience Prize winner of the 2017 Concorso Lirico Internazionale di Portofino competition, a winner of the 2016 Richard F. Gold Career Grant, a winner of the 2015 Hilde Zadek Competition at the Musikverein in Vienna, and a winner of the 2015 Sedat Gürel-Güzin Gürel International Voice Competition in Istanbul.
HGO Debut