Leroy Davis

Baritone

Ryan Opera Center Ensemble

Leroy Davis is sponsored by the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation.

Baritone Leroy Davis is a second-year member of the Ryan Opera Center. Recent company debuts include Lincoln Center Theater as George Armstrong in the world premiere of Ricky Ian Gordon and Lynn Nottage’s Intimate Apparel; Opera Theatre of Saint Louis as Pastor, Layabout Man, James, Kaboom/Terence Blanchard and Kasi Lemmons’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones (world premiere) as a Gerdine Young Artist; the Phoenicia Festival as Belcore/The Elixir of Love; Boston Opera Collaborative as Leporello/Don Giovanni; and Odyssey Opera as Ernesto Malcom/Giovanni Pacini’s Maria, Regina d’Inghilterra. Davis was also seen as the Forester/The Cunning Little Vixen, Hannah Before/Laura Kaminsky’s As One, Joe St. George/Tobias Picker’s Dolores Claiborne, and Pablo Picasso/Tom Cipullo’s After Life at Boston University’s Opera Institute.Other credits include Maximilian/Candide as an Apprentice Artist with Chautauqua Opera; Aeneas and Adonis/Dido and Aeneas and Venus and Adonis, Papageno/The Magic Flute, Fiorello/The Barber of Seville, and Maitre D’ and Farley/Robert Livingston Aldridge’s Sister Carrie (world premiere and recording) as a Studio Artist at Florentine Opera; the Mandarin and Ping/Turandot with Shreveport Opera; and bass soloist for Bruckner’s Te Deum with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra.

In Lyric’s 2020/21 virtual programming, Davis appeared in Lawrence Brownlee and Friends: The Next Chapter, Master Classes with Sir Andrew Davis, Creating The Factotum, Sole e Amore, Magical Music Around the World, and Rising Stars in Concert.

For the company’s 2021/22 season Davis sings in Sunday in the Park with Lyric’s Rising Stars and as Jailer/Tosca and Pastor and Kaboom/Fire Shut Up in My Bones.

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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.

“E l’uccellino” with Leroy Davis

In this clip from "Sole e Amore," first-year baritone Leroy Davis performs Puccini's buoyant lullaby "E l'uccellino" ("And the little bird") with fellow Ryan Opera Center Ensemble member Chris Reynolds on piano.

Ryan Opera Center At Work: “April Showers”

“Though April showers may come your way, they bring the flowers that bloom in May” An American standard made popular by Al Jolson, “April Showers” reminds us that even the gloomiest clouds have a silver lining. In this installment of our Ryan Opera Center At Work series, first-year baritone Leroy Davis performs the timeless song with fellow Ensemble member Chris Reynolds on piano.

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.

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