LUCIA BRADFORD

Mezzo-soprano, Lucia Bradford is a native of Brooklyn, N.Y. 

Ms. Bradford has performed a number of operatic roles including Carmen in Bizet’s La Tragedie de Carmen, Zita in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi, La Principessa in Puccini’s Suor Angelica, The Mother  in Ravel’s L’Enfant des Sortileges, Mercedes in Bizet’s Carmen, Mrs. Quickly in Verdi’s Falstaff,  Miss Todd in Menotti’s Old Maid and the Thief, the Duchess of Plaza Toro in Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Gondoliers, Azelia Dessalines in William Grant Still’s opera Troubled Island, Douglas Tappin’s I dream as Grandma, Mary Watkins’ Emmett Till as Mamie Till and Maria in Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, Berta in The Barber of Seville and Marcellina in Le Nozze di Figaro 

Her concert works include the St Matthews Passion with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Bach’s, Weihnachts oratorium, De Falla’s El amor Brujo,

Mozart's Vesperae solennes de Confessore, Hadyn’s Lord Nelson Mass, William Grant Still’s And they lynched him, Nathanial Dett’s The Ordering of Moses, Julia Perry’s Stabat Mater, Beethoven’s Mass in C major, Handel’s Messiah with the National Symphony, the Mozart Requiem, Durufle Requiem, Bach B minor Mass, St John’s Passion and St Matthew’s Passion with the Voices of Ascension, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Bach’s Magnificat, at Carnegie Hall with the Oratorio Society of N.Y.

Ms. Bradford has had the privilege of singing at Carnegie Hall, the Kimmel Center, Merkin Hall and touring in Russia, Budapest, Spain, 

the Caribbean and throughout the United States. In the classical world her repertoire ranges from sacred works and oratorio to opera. She also enjoys performing a variety of genres including contemporary opera, jazz, gospel and blues.

Upcoming performances include  singing Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang and Paul Moravec’s All Shall Rise (Premier performance) at Carnegie Hall and the Bach Magnificat and Reena Esmail’s The Love between us: A Prayer for Unity with the New York Choral Artists.