Originally from Denver, CO, Bass-baritone Ben Brady received his bachelor's of Music in Vocal Performance from the University of Michigan. Recent roles include Dr. Grenville (La Traviata) and The Physician (Pelléas et Mélisande) with The Dallas Opera. This season Ben will cover Sprecher (The Magic Flute) at The Metropolitan Opera and sing Bottom (A Midsummer NIght's Dream) with Opera Theater of Saint Louis.

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In 2024 he was a Benenson Young Artist with Palm Beach Opera where he sang Luther and Crespel and covered the Four Villains (Les Contes d'Hoffmann) as well as covered Orveso (Norma.) In 2023 he sang Sciarrone (Tosca) and The Physician and Arkel (Pelléas et Mélisande) at Santa Fe Opera as a second-year Apprentice. In the summer of 2022 he covered Don Basilio in The Barber of Seville as a first-year Santa Fe Opera Apprentice. Mr. Brady was a participant in San Francisco Opera’s Merola Young Artist Program in the summers of 2020 and 2021.

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Operatic roles include Dr. Bartolo (Il barbiere di Siviglia) with North Carolina Opera, Fafner (Das Rheingold) with Dayton Opera, Colline (La Boheme) with Opera Modesto, Banco (Macbetto), Zaccaria (Nabucco) and Rocco (Fidelio) with West Bay Opera, Polyphemus (Acis and Galatea) with Eugene Opera, Dr. Dulcamara (L'elisir d’amore) with Cal Baptist University and the Page in San Francisco Opera’s Roberto Devereux. 

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In 2018 he was awarded Audience Favorite and First Place in the Tier II category of the James Toland Vocal Arts competition, and in 2021 he was awarded the Oakland Symphony Award in the Tier I category. In 2020 Mr. Brady was selected for the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions Semifinals in New York, and in 2022 he was awarded 2nd Place and Audience Favorite in the Northwest Regionals. in 2021 he took first place in the CS Music Online Competition in the Emerging Professional division. In May of 2023 he sang as a finalist in the Irene Dalis Vocal Competition with Opera San Joseand in 2024 he took the Encouragement Award in the Jensen Foundation Vocal Competition.

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