


Grammy nominee Stephen L. Bryant’s distinguished career in concert and opera has taken him around the world, with acclaimed performances in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. In the 2018-19 season, he performs in Charles Wuorinen’s opera Haroun and the Sea of Stories, based on the novel by Salman Rushdie, with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project. In July 2019, he sings as a soloist with the Mendhelssohn Club of Philadelphia, in Tan Dun’s Water Passion after St. Matthew.
Mr. Bryant’s 2015-2016 season included Tan Dun’s Water Passion after St. Matthew at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and with the Brussels Philharmonic, the roles of Cecco and Raimondo in Wagner’s Rienzi with the National Philharmonic, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Bridgeport Symphony and the title role in Mendelssohn’s Elijah with the Hartford Chorale.
A premiere interpreter of the works of Academy Award-winning composer Tan Dun, Bryant created the role of Dante in the world premiere of the opera Marco Polo and was nominated for a Grammy for “Best Opera Recording” for the opera’s release on Opus Arte. He reprised the role for productions at London’s Barbican Centre (broadcast by the BBC), the Bergen International Festival and with de Nederlandse Opera. He has also performed Water Passion after St. Matthew with the Los Angeles Master Chorale, Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart, MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony, and on tour in the Netherlands; and Tan Dun’s Orchestra Theatre II with the Hamburger Symphoniker. His other recent concert appearances include Mendelssohn’s Elijah with the New York Philharmonic and the Philadelphia Orchestra; Handel’s Messiah with the Indianapolis and Pittsburgh symphonies; Mozart’s Requiem with Princeton Pro Musica; and Verdi’s Requiem with the Washington National Opera Orchestra under the auspices of the Defiant Requiem Foundation.
Stephen L. Bryant has appeared in numerous roles with New York City Opera, most recently in productions of A Quiet Place and Intermezzo. Other opera performances include Mr. Gobineau in The Medium at the Spoleto Festival USA; Robert Gonzales in Stewart Wallace’s Harvey Milk and the Bonze in Madama Butterfly with San Francisco Opera; Capulet in Roméo et Juliette with Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Michigan Opera Theatre, Chautauqua Opera, and Toledo Opera; George Milton in Of Mice and Menwith Arizona Opera; and Indiana Elliot’s Brother in Thomson’s The Mother of Us All with Santa Fe Opera.
Tan Dun’s ‘The Water Passion’ superbly done by LA Master Chorale
“Stephen L. Bryant sang throughout the 90 minute work with sustained drama and beautiful tone. Never losing vocal control, his role as Jesus had him sing incredibly low notes, and then slowly sweep up into full operatic baritone sounds or end at high falsetto voice. His over-tone singing was quite impressive as was the general flexibility of his voice.”
– Ahdda Shur, LA Examiner – Related Link
Tan Dun’s Water Passion bathes all in excellence
“Carefully rehearsed over the past few weeks, the performance on Sunday was meticulously presented, with vocal soloists soprano-in-excelsis Delaram Kamareh and basso profundo-in-extremis Stephen L. Bryant dazzling in challenging roles that preclude nearly all potential soloists, given their respective tessituras alone…. His vocal production was prodigious and beautiful.”
– Douglas Neslund, LA Opus – Related Link
Riveting “Water Passion” at SummerFest
“Bass-baritone Stephen L. Bryant ardently propelled the passion narrative singing the words of Jesus and, in the opening section, those of John the Baptist, who aptly begins ‘Water Passion’ with St. Matthew’s account of Jesus’ baptism in the Jordan River. A veteran of numerous ‘Water Passion’ performances (he has also recorded the work), Bryant’s deep, well-modulated sonority suggested gravitas without the stoicism some singers bring to the role of Jesus in a traditional passion oratorio.”
– Ken Herman, San Diego Story – Related Link
Orchestral
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Bach
Cantatas – 4, 8, 56, 79, 80, 82, 93, 97, 106, 140, 147
Magnificat
Mass in B minor
St. John Passion
St. Matthew PassionBarber
Dover BeachBeethoven
Choral Fantasy
Mass in C
Symphony No. 9Bloch
Sacred ServiceBrahms
Ein Deutsches RequiemBritten
War RequiemCopland
Old American SongsDun
Orchestra Theater II
The Water Passion of St. MatthewDuruflé
RequiemDvorák
Requiem
Stabat Mater
Te DeumFauré
RequiemHandel
Jephta
Judas Maccabaeus
Messiah
Samson
Saul
Solomon
TheodoraHaydn
The Creation
Harmoniemesse
Lord Nelson Mass
Missa Cellensis
Paukenmesse
The Seasons
TheresienmesseMahler
Symphony No. 8Mendelssohn
Elijah
Die Erste Walpurgisnacht
St. Paul
Te DeumMozart
Coronation Mass
Great Mass in C minor
Regina Coeli in C
Requiem
Solemn VespersRachmaninoff
The BellsRossini
Stabat MaterSchubert
Mass in A-flat
Mass in B-flat
Mass in E-flat
Mass in GSchumann
RequiemStravinsky
Les NocesTan Dun
Water Passion After St. MatthewVaughan Williams
Dona Nobis Pacem
Five Mystical Songs
A Sea SymphonyVerdi
Requiem
Opera
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Beethoven
Fidelio (Rocco, Pizarro)Bernstein
Candide (Bear-Keeper, Grand Inquisitor, Tsar Ivan)
A Quiet Place (Sam)Bizet
Carmen (Escamillo, Zuniga)Britten
Billy Budd (John Claggart)Donizetti
Lucia di Lammermoor (Raimondo)Floyd
Of Mice and Men (George)Gounod
Roméo et Juliette (Capulet)Handel
Giulio Cesare (Giulio Cesare)Leigh
Man of La Mancha (Don Quixote)Menotti
The Medium (Mr. Gobineau)Mozart
Così Fan Tutte (Don Alfonso)
Don Giovanni (Leporello, Masetto)
Le Nozze di Figaro (Figaro, Bartolo)
Die Zauberflöte (Sarastro, Sprecher)Puccini
La Bohème (Colline, Benoit, Alcindoro)
Gianni Schicchi (Betto)
Madama Butterfly (Bonze, Sharpless)
Tosca (Scarpia)Rodgers
South Pacific (Emil de Becque)Rossini
La Cenerentola (Alidoro)
L’Italiana in Algeri (Haly)
Il Viaggio a Reims (Lord Sidney)Sondheim
Sweeney Todd (Sweeney Todd)Strauss, Johann
Die Fledermaus (Frank)Strauss, Richard
Intermezzo (Kammersanger)Stravinsky
The Rake’s Progress (Nick Shadow)Tan Dun
Marco Polo (Dante)Thomson
The Mother of Us All (Indiana Elliot’s Brother)Verdi
Aida (Amonasro, Ramfis)
Otello (Montano)
Rigoletto (Monterone)
Un Ballo in Maschera (Sam)Wallace
Harvey Milk (Robert Gonzales)
Orchestral
Bach
Cantatas – 4, 8, 56, 79, 80, 82, 93, 97, 106, 140, 147
Magnificat
Mass in B minor
St. John Passion
St. Matthew PassionBarber
Dover BeachBeethoven
Choral Fantasy
Mass in C
Symphony No. 9Bloch
Sacred ServiceBrahms
Ein Deutsches RequiemBritten
War RequiemCopland
Old American SongsDun
Orchestra Theater II
The Water Passion of St. MatthewDuruflé
RequiemDvorák
Requiem
Stabat Mater
Te DeumFauré
RequiemHandel
Jephta
Judas Maccabaeus
Messiah
Samson
Saul
Solomon
TheodoraHaydn
The Creation
Harmoniemesse
Lord Nelson Mass
Missa Cellensis
Paukenmesse
The Seasons
TheresienmesseMahler
Symphony No. 8Mendelssohn
Elijah
Die Erste Walpurgisnacht
St. Paul
Te DeumMozart
Coronation Mass
Great Mass in C minor
Regina Coeli in C
Requiem
Solemn VespersRachmaninoff
The BellsRossini
Stabat MaterSchubert
Mass in A-flat
Mass in B-flat
Mass in E-flat
Mass in GSchumann
RequiemStravinsky
Les NocesTan Dun
Water Passion After St. MatthewVaughan Williams
Dona Nobis Pacem
Five Mystical Songs
A Sea SymphonyVerdi
Requiem
Opera
Beethoven
Fidelio (Rocco, Pizarro)Bernstein
Candide (Bear-Keeper, Grand Inquisitor, Tsar Ivan)
A Quiet Place (Sam)Bizet
Carmen (Escamillo, Zuniga)Britten
Billy Budd (John Claggart)Donizetti
Lucia di Lammermoor (Raimondo)Floyd
Of Mice and Men (George)Gounod
Roméo et Juliette (Capulet)Handel
Giulio Cesare (Giulio Cesare)Leigh
Man of La Mancha (Don Quixote)Menotti
The Medium (Mr. Gobineau)Mozart
Così Fan Tutte (Don Alfonso)
Don Giovanni (Leporello, Masetto)
Le Nozze di Figaro (Figaro, Bartolo)
Die Zauberflöte (Sarastro, Sprecher)Puccini
La Bohème (Colline, Benoit, Alcindoro)
Gianni Schicchi (Betto)
Madama Butterfly (Bonze, Sharpless)
Tosca (Scarpia)Rodgers
South Pacific (Emil de Becque)Rossini
La Cenerentola (Alidoro)
L’Italiana in Algeri (Haly)
Il Viaggio a Reims (Lord Sidney)Sondheim
Sweeney Todd (Sweeney Todd)Strauss, Johann
Die Fledermaus (Frank)Strauss, Richard
Intermezzo (Kammersanger)Stravinsky
The Rake’s Progress (Nick Shadow)Tan Dun
Marco Polo (Dante)Thomson
The Mother of Us All (Indiana Elliot’s Brother)Verdi
Aida (Amonasro, Ramfis)
Otello (Montano)
Rigoletto (Monterone)
Un Ballo in Maschera (Sam)Wallace
Harvey Milk (Robert Gonzales)
Audio
Britten: War Requiem – After the Blast of Lightning

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Excerpt)

Handel: Messiah – Why Do the Nations?

Rogers: Camelot – If Ever I Would Leave You

Loewe: South Pacific – Some Enchanted Evening

Sondheim: Sweeney Todd – Epiphany

Documents
Short Biography
Grammy nominee Stephen L. Bryant’s distinguished career in concert and opera has taken him around the world, with acclaimed performances in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. In the 2018-19 season, he performs in Charles Wuorinen’s opera Haroun and the Sea of Stories, based on the novel by Salman Rushdie, with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project. In July 2019, he sings as a soloist with the Mendhelssohn Club of Philadelphia, in Tan Dun’s Water Passion after St. Matthew. His 2017-18 season included a performance as soloist with Soundstreams Canada. |
Full Biography
Grammy nominee Stephen L. Bryant’s distinguished career in concert and opera has taken him around the world, with acclaimed performances in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. In the 2018-19 season, he performs in Charles Wuorinen’s opera Haroun and the Sea of Stories, based on the novel by Salman Rushdie, with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project. In July 2019, he sings as a soloist with the Mendhelssohn Club of Philadelphia, in Tan Dun’s Water Passion after St. Matthew.
Mr. Bryant’s 2015-2016 season included Tan Dun’s Water Passion after St. Matthew at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and with the Brussels Philharmonic, the roles of Cecco and Raimondo in Wagner’s Rienzi with the National Philharmonic, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Bridgeport Symphony and the title role in Mendelssohn’s Elijah with the Hartford Chorale.
A premiere interpreter of the works of Academy Award-winning composer Tan Dun, Bryant created the role of Dante in the world premiere of the opera Marco Polo and was nominated for a Grammy for “Best Opera Recording” for the opera’s release on Opus Arte. He reprised the role for productions at London’s Barbican Centre (broadcast by the BBC), the Bergen International Festival and with de Nederlandse Opera. He has also performed Water Passion after St. Matthew with the Los Angeles Master Chorale, Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart, MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony, and on tour in the Netherlands; and Tan Dun’s Orchestra Theatre II with the Hamburger Symphoniker. His other recent concert appearances include Mendelssohn’s Elijah with the New York Philharmonic and the Philadelphia Orchestra; Handel’s Messiah with the Indianapolis and Pittsburgh symphonies; Mozart’s Requiem with Princeton Pro Musica; and Verdi’s Requiem with the Washington National Opera Orchestra under the auspices of the Defiant Requiem Foundation.
Stephen L. Bryant has appeared in numerous roles with New York City Opera, most recently in productions of A Quiet Place and Intermezzo. Other opera performances include Mr. Gobineau in The Medium at the Spoleto Festival USA; Robert Gonzales in Stewart Wallace’s Harvey Milk and the Bonze in Madama Butterfly with San Francisco Opera; Capulet in Roméo et Juliette with Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Michigan Opera Theatre, Chautauqua Opera, and Toledo Opera; George Milton in Of Mice and Menwith Arizona Opera; and Indiana Elliot’s Brother in Thomson’s The Mother of Us All with Santa Fe Opera.