American bass-baritone Brad Walker is a Merola Opera Program alum (2015) and a former Adler Fellow. For this special concert, Brad will be accompanied by Maureen Zoltek. This concert is by invitation only.
Brad Walker is rapidly establishing himself as one to watch in American opera. After spending the summer performing Betto in Gianni Schicchi, he was invited to join the illustrious Adler Fellowship at San Francisco Opera, where he will spend the next two years. He recently earned an Artist Diploma from the Yale School of Music where he starred as Figaro in Le Nozze di Figaro, Colline in La Bohème, and Don Magnifico in La cenerentola.
During his time at Yale, he performed his first Messiah with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra, and made his Lincoln Center debut in Dvorak’s Stabat Mater. In 2014 was named one of the winners of the Boston District in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, as well as receiving the Apprenticeship Award from Chautauqua Opera where he spent three summers.
During his time with Chautauqua he was seen as The Bonze in Madama Butterfly and Jake in The Ballad of Doe. He was sang two concerts with the Chautauqua Symphony, as well as performing William Jennings Bryan from Baby Doe in a pastiche including all the performing arts of Chautauqua for a sold out, five thousand seat crowd, on the stage of the historic amphitheater. Walker has also severed as apprentice artist with Des Moines Metro Opera, where he covered Colline, and spent two years with the Lyric Opera of Kansas City where he was seen as Fiorello in Il barbiere di Sivigla.
While obtaining his Master’s Degree from the University of Kansas, Mr. Walker was a mainstay in their productions, where he was seen as Guglielmo in Cosi fan tutte, Sir Roderick in Gilbert and Sullivan’s Ruddigore, Mr. Peechum in John Gaye’s The Beggar’s Opera, Orgon in Tartuffe and Colline in La Bohème. His academic credits also include performing as Le Duc in Romeo et Juliette, and Olin Blitch in Susannah at Michigan State University, where he earned his Bachelor’s.
