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Internationally recognized for his “dulcet tones” and as “a name of which you’ll certainly hear more” (Music OMH), Bradyn Debysingh currently stars on London’s West End as Ubaldo Piangi in Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s original production of The Phantom of the Opera at His Majesty’s Theatre. Based in London, he is a passionate performer whose work spans the breadth of operatic, song, choral, and musical theatre repertoire. A frequent baroque interpreter, he recently debuted as the tenor soloist in Handel’s Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day (dir. Chris Lockyer) with the Deal & Walmer Handelian Choral Society and looks forward to returning to Deal in the spring for his debut in Orff’s Carmina Burana (dir. Chris Lockyer). Further spring engagements include Dan Forrest’s Requiem for the Living and Mozart’s Requiem (dir. Steven Roberts) with Chesterfield Choral Society. Earlier in 2025 saw Mr. Debysingh’s debut with Clonter Opera Theatre, singing and tap dancing to classic musical theatre numbers in Tea with Songs from the Shows. Other concerts included Out of the Deep with Vache Baroque at both Magdalen College Chapel, Oxford and St. John Smith Square, London as well as Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle with both Chesterfield Choral Society and Fleetwood & District Choral Society.

His 2023-2024 season included Mr. Debysingh’s UK debut as “the energetic, pinpoint” (Opera Today) Don Curzio in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro at Garsington Opera with the Philharmonia Orchestra (dir. Tabita Berglund). While at Garsington, Mr. Debysingh also covered the haute-contre role of Thespis/Mercure in Rameau’s Platée (The English Concert, dir. Paul Agnew) and performed vignettes from the production at the Rudolph Steiner House in London. In addition, he debuted with Brighton Early Music Festival in the title role of Carissimi’s Jepthe. On the continent, Mr. Debysingh performed scenes from Verdi’s Falstaff and Rossini’s La Cenerentola with Classic Lyric Arts throughout Italy’s Emilia-Romagna region – most notably at Ravenna’s Basilica di San Francesco in front of the tomb of Dante Alighieri. Earlier season highlights included his Lincoln Center debut as a finalist in the American Pops Orchestra’s 7th Annual NextGen National Competition, chorus debuts in the Lyric Opera of Chicago’s productions of Wagner’s Der Fliegende Holländer and Verdi’s Aida (dir. Enrique Mazzola) and covering the role of the District Inspector in Francesca Zambello’s new Russian production of Shostakovich’s The Nose with Chicago Opera Theater (dir. Lydia Yankovskaya).

Frequently returning to the works of J.S. Bach, Mr. Debysingh was a Fellow at Emmanuel Music’s 2024 Bach Institute where he performed a variety of cantatas in the historic Emmanuel Church in the City of Boston under the direction of Ryan Turner and Pamela Dellal. While at the Bach Institute, Mr. Debysingh joined tenor Nicholas Phan for a masterclass and interview featured in Phan’s BACH 52 video series exploring the accessibility of Bach’s music. As a 2023 Tanglewood Music Center Vocal Fellow, Mr. Debysingh performed further Bach cantatas (dir. John Harbison) as well as other concert works including but not limited to Edie Hill’s Spectral Spirits, Benjamin Britten’s Canticle I, Michelle Ross’s Toujours Pour la Première Fois and Rolling Wave that Returns (world premiere), and Ania Vu’s small tendernesses (dir. Stefan Asbury). While at Tanglewood, Mr. Debysingh featured in a public masterclass with soprano Erin Morley and was mentored by Will Liverman, Dawn Upshaw, Randall Scarlatta, and Margo Garrett among others. Further masterclasses have included a residency in Thiré, France with Paul Agnew of Les Arts Florissants, workshops with Emma Kirkby and Peter Harvey at the Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart, and the Tichio-Finnie Vocal Masterclass Series with Matthew Polenzani at the Bienen School of Music.

Mr. Debysingh has performed and covered a number of roles including Oronte in Händel’s Alcina (dir. Stephen Alltop), Frederic in Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance (dir. John Robertson), Parpignol in Puccini’s La bohème (dir. Patrick Furrer), Toby in Menotti’s The Medium (dir. Jennifer Huang), and Ambrose Raines in the Midwest premiere of Cerrone’s In a Grove (dir. Alan Pierson). World premieres have included The Boy in Paul Herman’s The Gift with South Bend Lyric Opera (dir. Casey Robards) and as the featured Tap Dancer and associate choreographer in Evan Mack’s and Joshua McGuire’s The Ghosts of Gatsby (dir. Brian Villunas) at Samford University. In long association as a global and Vocal Academy Artist with Classic Lyric Arts, Mr. Debysingh has also performed many operatic scenes and arias from major works by Mozart, Bizet, Gluck, Rossini, and Verdi in bespoke venues across New York City, the Berkshires, France, and Italy. No stranger to the musical comedy, Mr. Debysingh has acted in numerous theatre roles including John Adams (1776), Jason (A Grand Night for Singing), Don Lockwood (Singin’ in the Rain), Billie Boyden (Roberta), Yonkers (Gypsy), and as part of the Cockney Quartet (My Fair Lady).

Active on the competition stage, Mr. Debysingh debuted at Carnegie Hall in 2022 as a finalist in the Oratorio Society of New York’s Lyndon-Woodside Oratorio-Solo Competition (Robert & Winifred Connelly Green Award). In 2023, he was a finalist at the Colorado Bach Ensemble’s Young Artist Competition (dir. James Kim) and received an Encouragement Award at the Kentucky Bach Choir’s Audrey Rooney Vocal Competition. Mr. Debysingh also competed as a preliminary semifinalist at the 2023 editions of the London Handel Singing Competition and Le Poème Harmonique’s Le Concours Corneille. Mr. Debysingh received 1st place at the 2019 and 2020 Alabama chapter’s National Association of Teachers of Singing Competition. In 2019, he won Samford University’s Concerto-Aria Competition and performed Mozart’s “il mio tesoro” from Don Giovanni with the Samford Orchestra at the 2,500-seat Leslie S. Wright Fine Arts Center.

In 2024, Mr. Debysingh received a full merit scholarship to complete his post-graduate diploma studies at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, U.K. He holds a Masters of Music in Voice & Opera from Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music where he worked closely with Stephen Alltop and the Alice Millar Chapel Choir as a frequent soloist in many programs of baroque music. Mr. Debysingh was part of the choir’s recent recording of Stacy Garrop’s oratorio Terra Nostra (Cedille Records) and returned in autumn 2023 as an alumnus singer for a joint concert of French choral music with singers from La Maîtrise Notre-Dame de Paris. Mr. Debysingh holds an additional Bachelor of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre and a Bachelor of Arts in Classics from Samford University.

In addition to performing, Mr. Debysingh maintains an interdisciplinary presence in the scholarship of classical antiquity. He twice presented his work on Greek and Latin pedagogy and the ancient theatre at the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, the 2020 conference for which he also arranged a virtual concert of Latin chorales and monody. In addition, he undertook further studies with the Paideia Institute and Accademia Vivarium Novum in association with Oxford Latinitas.

Mr. Debysingh is originally from Cottage Grove, Oregon where he developed his love for the stage at the Cottage Theatre. He currently resides in London and remains an avid tap dancer, published but yet aspiring poet, and Earl Grey enthusiast. SDG


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