David Sadlier

Biography

David Sadlier's career has encompassed leading operatic roles, acclaimed concert appearances, and a distinguished record as a voice teacher and arts administrator.

Having sung a significant variety of repertoire, David is a BariTenor with a wide vocal range and penetrating resonance.  He is most at home in Germanic Lied and operatic repertoire of Wagner and Mozart, the English art song and operatic repertoire, and a wide swath of concert material.  He has performed with opera companies across the US and concert and recital venues throughout the US and Europe.  Notable engagements abroad include performances at St. Martin in the Fields (London, UK), Schumannhaus (Zwickau, DE), Teatro Principál (Puebla, MX), The Sheldonian Theater (Oxford, UK), and the Bad Reichenhaller Philharmonic.  In the states, a partial list of engagements as soloist include performances with The Virginia Symphony, The New Orleans Symphony Chorus,  the New Orleans Opera, The Baltimore Lyric Opera, Baltimore Concert Opera, The Cleveland Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Opera Theater of St. Louis, and Opera North, among others. Recently David sang the title role in Mitridate; re di Ponto (The Cleveland Opera) and is scheduled to appear as Loge in Das Rheingold with Dramatic Voices Midwest.

As a pedagogue, he has guided singers from their earliest studies through to professional careers, drawing on a deep knowledge of vocal physiology, repertoire, and the demands of the modern operatic marketplace.  David is a Professor of Voice at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and on the voice faculty at the Metropolitan Opera's Lindemann Young Artist Development Program.

David is also the Founder and General Director of Music Across the Pond which is aimed at teaching the intricacies of effective and communicative art song performance to classical singers and pianists.