Mezzo-soprano Lucia Bradford is a native of Brooklyn, New York. She has received a BA in music education and an MM in Vocal Performance and Pedagogy from Westminster Choir College. Ms. Bradford has had the privilege of singing and touring in Russia in 2014 with Opera Noire of New York City and Spain with the American Spirituals Ensemble. She has performed works of Schubert, Rossini and Moses Hogan at the prestigious Kimmel Center in the Verizon Hall in Philadelphia with the renowned Maestro Christoph Eschenbach at the piano. She was the alto soloist in Undine Smith Moore’s The Scene for the Life of a Martyr in Minnesota with the Witness Orchestra and Chorus. Ms. Bradford has performed Menotti’s Old Maid and the Thief as Miss Todd and Bizet’s La Tragedie de Carmen as Carmen and Zita in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi with the Wendy Taucher Company. In past years at Opera North she has performed several roles including Hippolyta in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the Duchess of Plaza Toro in Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Gondoliers, the mother in Ravel’s L’Enfant des Sortileges and Mrs. Quickly from Verdi’s Falstaff in the matinee performance at Opera North. She played the role of Mercedes in Bizet’s Carmen with the Houston Ebony Opera Company. She also enjoys singing new compositions and has sung for the New York City Opera in the VOX concert performing a new work called Crescent City by Anne LeBaron as Marie Leveau also in Yoav Gal’s work called Mosheh as Miriam. She performed as Azelia Dessalines in the historic return of William Grant Still’s opera Troubled Island with City Opera in 2009 at the Schomburg Center. She was also the Mother of Paul Dunbar in the premiere of The Mask in the Mirror by Richard Thompson. She also enjoys singing other genres such as gospel and jazz. She was a winner in the soloist category of the McDonald’s Gospelfest 2000.