Bradley Daley

Bradley studied at the University of Southern Queensland and the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University before going on to study in the UK and USA.

Bradley’s international engagements include the roles of Rodolfo in La bohème and Staff Officer in the world première of The Silver Tassie (for English National Opera), Lenski in Eugene Onegin (for Riverside Opera), Boris in Katya Kabanova (for Opera North), Caius in Falstaff (for Stanley Hall Opera), Alfred in Die Fledermaus (for Opera Holland Park), Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto (for Mid Wales Opera), Cavaradossi in Tosca (for Opera del Mar), Samson in Samson et Dalila (at Brangwyn Hall in Wales), Manrico in Il trovatore (at the Grosses Festspielhaus in Salzburg), Turiddu in Cavalleria rusticana (for Kentish Opera), Nemorino in L’elisir d’amore (for Garden Opera), Alfredo in La traviata (at the Gulbenkian Theatre in Kent), Canio in Pagliacci (at the Hanoi Opera House), Don José in Carmen (for Riverside Opera, London City Opera, Opera Holland Park and Opéra Nomade), Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor (for Opéra Nomade and Opera Holland Park), Riccardo in Un ballo in maschera (for English National Opera and Compagnia d’Opera Italiana di Milano), Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly (for English National Opera, Co-Opera Ireland and at Royal Festival Hall London), Gunther in The Triumph of Spirit Over Matter, Billy in Mahagonny Songspiel and Bill in Happy End (at the Muziektheater Transparant in Belgium) and Jack in Love Burns (at the Alte Staathaus in Vienna).

Bradley’s concert repertoire includes Dvorˇák’s Stabat Mater, Verdi’s Requiem, Puccini’s Messa di Gloria, Mendelssohn’s Die erste Walpurgisnacht, Elijah and Hymn of Praise, Handel’s Messiah, Williamson’s The Glitter Gang, Elgar’s The Kingdom, Gounod’s Messe Solennelle de Sainte Cécile and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. He has appeared with the Britten Sinfonia and Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and performed at the Prague Music Festival, St John’s, Smith Square, the Barbican and at the Worcester and Canterbury Cathedrals.

His Australian engagements include the roles of Rodolfo in La bohème (for Opera Australia), Remendado in Carmen and understudying the role of Florestan in Fidelio, which he subsequently performed for the whole season (for Opera Queensland), Dick Johnson in La fanciulla del West (for State Opera of South Australia) and appearing in the touring production of Monty Python’s Not the Messiah.

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