Anthony Reed

Bass

Ryan Opera Center Ensemble

Anthony Reed is sponsored by J. Thomas Hurvis.

Bass Anthony Reed is a third-year member of the Ryan Opera Center and an alumnus of the Curtis Institute of Music and the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. A former Adler Fellow and participant in the Merola Opera Program with San Francisco Opera, his highlights on stage there include King of Egypt/Aida, Speaker/Die Zauberflöte, and Dottore Grenvil/La traviata. Reed recently sang Frère Laurent/Roméo et Juliette with Wolf Trap Opera, Don Basilio/Il barbiere di Siviglia with Annapolis Operaand Haydn's Creation with North Carolina Master Chorale. His repertory also encompasses Sarastro/Die Zauberflöte and Don Magnifico/La Cenerentola, among others. He has performed with GRAMMY Award-winning symphony orchestras and some of the world’s most esteemed conductors including Nicola Luisotti and Donald Runnicles. Previously at Lyric, Reed sang Prison Guard #2/Dead Man Walking (debut), Commissioner/Madama Butterfly, and Narumoff/The Queen of Spades.

In 2020/21 virtual programming he appeared with Collaborative Arts Institute of Chicago and with Lyric in Master Classes with Sir Andrew Davis, Sole e Amore, Magical Music Around the World, and Rising Stars in Concert.

For Lyric in 2021/22 Reed performs in Sunday in the Park with Lyric’s Rising Stars as well as Assassin and First Apparition/Macbeth, Second Armored Man/The Magic Flute, and Sciarrone/Tosca.

Photo: Andrew Bogard

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"Das Zauberlied” with Martin Luther Clark and the 2020/21 Ryan Opera Center Ensemble

In this lively excerpt from Magical Music Around the World, tenor Martin Luther Clark performs "Das Zauberlied” (“The Magic Song”) with the 2020/21 Ryan Opera Center Ensemble and Music Director Craig Terry on piano.

“Casa mia” with Anthony Reed

Home is where the heart (and coffee) is! Composed in 1908, Puccini used a folk-song text for "Casa mia" ("My home"), performed here by Ryan Opera Center bass Anthony Reed with Maestro Enrique Mazzola on piano in Sole e Amore.

Sole e Amore (Sun and Love)

Revel in the sounds of Italy with Sole e Amore (Sun and Love), the latest concert from Lyric Opera of Chicago and The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center.

Ryan Opera Center At Work: "Whither Must I Wander"

Continuing our Ryan Opera Center At Work series, bass Anthony Reed and pianist Chris Reynolds perform the melancholy song "Whither Must I Wander" from Ralph Vaughan Williams's song cycle "Songs of Travel," based on the poems of Robert Louis Stevenson.

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