Bradley Daley

Bradley Daley’s international career has won him critical acclaim for some of opera’s most expansive tenor roles. These have included Siegfried and Siegmund in Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, Der Kaiser in Strauss’s Die Frau ohne Schatten, Verdi’s Otello, Florestan in Beethoven’s Fidelio, Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci, Don José in Bizet’s Carmen, Erik in Wagner’s Der fliegender Holländer and the title role in Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito. Bradley has also won Greenroom Awards for his interpretations of Mao Tse-tung in John Adam’s Nixon in China and Curley in Carlisle Floyd’s Of Mice and Men.

Most recently Bradley has been regularly appearing in various Ring Cycles in Germany, the UK and Australia. Future engagements include Ring Cycles for Longborough Festival, Kiel Opera, Opera Australia and Melbourne Opera. In concert this year he will return to the Sydney Opera House to sing Puccini`s Messa di Gloria and excerpts from Turandot as Calaf.

In his home country of Australia Bradley is a long time favourite of both opera companies and audiences alike. He has performed major principal roles with Opera Australia, including Curley in Of Mice and Men, Don José in Carmen and Siegmund in Der Ring at the Victorian Arts Centre. For his home State company of Opera Queensland he has sung Florestan in Fidelio, Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, Rodolfo in La bohème, Basilio/Curzio in Marriage of Figaro and Bob Boles in Peter Grimes for the Brisbane Festival. For South Australian Opera he has sung Dick Johnson in La fanciulla del West, Narraboth in Salome, Canio in Pagliacci, the title role in Otello and Walter in Der Meistersinger, Act 3 in concert. In 2021 Bradley debuted as Tito in La Clemenza di Tito for the newly formed National Opera in Canberra and for Victorian Opera he has sung Mao Tse-tung in Nixon in China and in Der fliegende Holländer.

Bradley has extensively toured the USA, Europe, Australia and the UK.
In the Uk he made his debut with the English National Opera Company as Rodolfo in La bohème and he has worked with Opera North, Welsh National Opera, Holland Park Opera, Longborough Festival and Co-Opera Ireland. In Europe he has performed and toured regularly with Kiel Opera, Muziektheatre Transparent in Belgium, Compagnia d'Opera Italiana di Milano and Opera Nomade in Paris. In 2005 Bradley was invited to give the first performance of a Western opera in Vietnam at the Hanoi Opera House. Concert appearances have included Festival Hall, the Barbican in London, Brangwyn Hall in Wales, Großes Festspielhaus Salzburg, Melbourne Town Hall and the Sydney Opera House.

Bradley has been involved in two world premières: he created the role of Staff Officer in English National Opera’s The Silver Tassie by Mark Anthony Turnage and the role of Gunther in The Triumph of Spirit over Matter for Muziektheatre Transparent, Belgium.

Concert performances have included the Rachmaninoff’s The Bells, Dvoràk's Stabat Mater, Verdi's Requiem, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, Die erste Walpurgisnacht for the Prague Music Festival, Messiah with the Britten Sinfonia at Snape Maltings, Elgar’s The Kingdom and The Dream of Gerontius at Melbourne Town Hall.

Bradley is arguably one of the most versatile and sought-after performers in Australia and Northern Europe..