Music M@A Presents: Raehann Bryce-Davis, mezzo-soprano

Raehann Bryce-Davis has been hailed by The New York Times as a “striking mezzo-soprano” and by the San Francisco Chronicle for her “electrifying sense of fearlessness.” In the 2021–2022 season, Ms. Bryce-Davis made notable house debuts at the Metropolitan Opera in Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress; at La Monnaie de Munt, Brussels, as La Zia Principessa in Suor Angelica; and at the Glimmerglass Festival singing Azucena in Il Trovatore. Additionally, she returned to both Los Angeles Opera and the Staatstheater Nürnberg as Azucena in Il Trovatore, and to Opera Ballet Vlaanderen as Der Komponist in Ariadne auf Naxos. On the concert stage, she joined Chineke! for a BBC Proms performance of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony conducted by Kevin John Edusei, and she sings solo recitals at the Tuesday Musical Club in San Antonio with pianist Heeyoung Choi, and for the Merola Opera Program with pianist Jeanne-Minette Cilliers. 

Program: 

Richard Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder 

Melissa Dunphy: "Come, My Tan-Faced Children" 

Margaret Bonds: "Birth" 

Florence Price: "The Crescent Moon" 

Maria Thompson Corley: "The Beauty in My Blackness" 

Maria Thompson Corley: "I Am Not an Angry Black Woman" 

Peter Ashbourne: "Fi Mi Love Have Lion Heart" 

Tickets are available as part of the Music@Amherst 2023–2024 subscription packages, via the ticketing website listed below, from Aug. 22 until Sept. 14. Single tickets are also available at amherst.universitytickets.com beginning Friday, Jan. 26. Seating is assigned. 

Single ticket prices: 

General Public: $28 

Senior Citizens (65+): $22 

Students, with valid ID: $12 

Amherst College Students, with current AC ID: FREE