Performer Biography

Daniel Fridley

Daniel Fridley, bass, is a third year doctoral student in the Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) Historical Performance Practice program, studying with Ellen Hargis and Dean Southern. His “wide palette of colors” (Parterre Box) and “spotless, resonant bass” (Cleveland Classical) lends itself well to a wide variety of genres and styles. He obtained his Masters of Music degree in Vocal Performance from the Cleveland Institute of Music (CIM) in 2017. This summer he was a Studio Artist with Teatro Nuovo, singing Pretore in Rossini’s La gazza ladra, and the previous summer he was a Studio Artist with Central City Opera.

Recent performances include Buxtehude’s Membra Jesu Nostri (L’Académie du Roi Soleil); Thésée in Rameau’s Hippolyte et Aricie (CIM and CWRU joint production); Fiorello in Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia (Cleveland Opera Theater); “Dangerous Love,” a program of fiery 17th-century Italian music (Newberry Consort); Dottore Grenvil in Verdi’s La traviata (The Cleveland Opera); Jesus in Bach’s St. John Passion (Atlanta Baroque); Leporello in Mozart’s Don Giovanni (La Musica Lirica); and Polyphemus in Handel’a Acis and Galatea (CWRU).