Raehann Bryce-Davis has been hailed by The New York Observer as “one of the best mezzo-sopranos of this generation.”

In the 2024-25 season, Ms. Bryce-Davis makes her Houston Grand Opera debut as Azucena in Il trovatore, and at the Grand Théâtre de Genève as Marfa in Khovanshchina directed by Alejo Perez. She will return to the Dutch National Opera as Marina in a new Kirill Serebrennikov production of Boris Godunovunder the direction of Vasily Petrenko. In concert, she appears at New Orleans Opera to sing her role debut in Samson et Dalila, and with the Winston-Salem Symphony to perform Verdi’s Reqiuem.

In the 2023-2024 season, Ms. Bryce-Davis debuted at Santa Fe Opera as Ježibaba in Rusalka in a new production directed by Sir David Pountney and conducted by Lidiya Yankovskaya. She also made house debuts Opera Philadelphia as Lizzie in the world premiere of Ten Days in a Madhouse, and at Oper im Steinbruch as Amneris in Aida. She returned to the Metropolitan Opera as Ella in X: The Life and Times of Malcom X, a new production by Robert O’ Hare. She also made a return to Dutch National Opera as La Zia Principessa in Il Trittico, a new Barrie Kosky production conducted by Lorenzo Viotti. In concert engagements, she appeared with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Das Rheingold conducted by Gustavo Dudamel. She performed Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jaime Martín and gave recitals alongside pianist Jeanne-Minette Cilliers at Vocal Arts Society in Washington D.C., San Francisco Performances, Music at Amherst, and St. Matthew’s Music Guild in California.

As a producer/performer, Ms. Bryce-Davis has released “To the Afflicted,” her first music video, which received widespread critical acclaim and was chosen as an official video for World Opera Day. Her second digital short, “Brown Sounds,” was co-produced with Los Angeles Opera and Aural Compass Projects, and won Best Music Video at film festivals around the globe including the New York International Film Awards, New York Cinematography Awards, Hollywood Boulevard Film Awards, the Anatolian Short Film Festival, and the Silk Road Film Awards – Cannes.

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In the 2021-2022 season, Ms. Bryce-Davis debuted at the Metropolitan Opera as Baba the Turk in The Rake’s Progress conducted by Susanna Mälkki, and at La Monnaie de Munt, Brussels as La Zia Principessa in Suor Angelica. She returned to both Los Angeles Opera and the Staatstheater Nürnberg as Azucena in Il trovatore, and to Opera Ballet Vlaanderen as the Komponist in Ariadne auf Naxos. On the concert stage, she sang solo recitals at both the Tuesday Musical Club in San Antonio, Texas, and for the Merola Opera Program.

Highlights of recent seasons include her role debut as Eboli in Don Carlos at Opera Ballet Vlaandren, her role debut as Sara in Roberto Devereux also at Los Angeles Opera, opposite Angela Meade and Ramón Vargas and conducted by Eun Sun Kim, and her house debut at Los Angeles Opera as Big Stone in the world premiere of Matthew Aucoin’s Eurydice. She has sung Léonore in Donizetti’s La Favorite at the Teatro Massimo di Palermo, Marguerite in Berlioz’s La Damnation de Faust conducted by John Nelson with the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Costa Rica, both Ms. Alexander in Satyagraha and Nezhata in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Sadko at Opera Ballet Vlaanderen, Kristina in Janáček’s The Makropulos Affair at the Janáček Brno Festival, Wellgunde in Wagner’s Die Ring-Trilogie at Theater an der Wien, and Madeline Mitchell in Jake Heggie’s Three Decembers at Opera Maine.

Concert highlights include the world premiere of Paul Moravec’s Sanctuary Road at Carnegie Hall, the recording of which won a Grammy Nomination. Verdi’s Messa da Requiem, both with conductor Kent Nagano and the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal at the Olympic Stadium and the Oratorio Society of New York at Carnegie Hall, and Elgar’s Sea Pictures at the Musikverein Vienna with the Tonkünstler Orchestra.

Others include Anthony Davis’ We Call the Roll with The Lied Society, Martinů’s Juliettawith the American Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, John Corigliano’s Of Rage and Remembrance at the Aspen Music Festival, the world premiere of Come, My Tan-Faced Children by Melissa Dunphy at Lyric Fest, Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, and Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky with Philippe Entremont at Manhattan School of Music.

Ms. Bryce-Davis is a recipient of the George London; the 1st Place and Audience Prize-winner of the Concorso Lirico Internazionale di Portofino, chaired by Dominique Meyer; winner of the 2016 Richard F. Gold Career Grant at the Merola Opera Program; winner of the 2015 Hilde Zadek Competition at the Musikverein in Vienna; and the 2015 Sedat Gürel – Güzin Gürel International Voice Competition in Istanbul. She holds a Master of Music and Professional Studies certificate from the Manhattan School of Music and a Bachelor of Music from the University of Texas at Arlington.