Bryce McClendon | Voice Teacher · Performer · Playwright 
Manhattan & Boston · she/her
Bryce McClendon
ScrollI — Voice Teacher
Voice
TeacherBryce's students have performed with prestigious companies and orchestras worldwide. This rapidly growing list includes:
the Metropolitan Opera · Festival d'Aix-en-Provence · Glyndebourne Opera · the Salzburg Festival · Chateau de Versailles · La Monnaie (Brussels) · Opéra national de Montpellier · Opéra de Lyon · Opéra de Lille · Grand Théâtre de Genève · Bayerische Staatsoper · English National Opera · Santa Fe Opera · Seattle Opera · Michigan Opera Theater · Opera Grand Rapids · Boston Lyric Opera · Florida Grand Opera · St. Petersburg Opera · Sarasota Opera · Chicago Lyric Opera · Wolf Trap Opera · Washington National Opera · Teatro Nuovo · the Boston Symphony Orchestra · the Cleveland Orchestra · the Chicago Symphony Orchestra · the New York Philharmonic · the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra · the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra · the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra · Apollo's Fire · American Bach Soloists · Boston Early Music Festival · Boston Baroque · Handel & Haydn Society · Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra · Portland Baroque Orchestra · L'Arpeggiata · Seraphic Fire · Freiburger Barockerchester · Collegium 1704 · Bard Music Festival · Tanglewood Music Festival · BANFF Summer Arts Festival · Danish National Opera · the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden · the Academy of Vocal Arts · Early Music Vancouver · and the Gewandhaus in Leipzig
Her students have performed at Carnegie Hall and Wigmore Hall, and have received honors from the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition, the Handel Aria Competition, the Gerda Lissner Vocal Competition, the Froville International Baroque Singing Competition, the Camille Coloratura Competition, the Oratorio Society of New York, the Musicians Club of Women, and others. Bryce is a longtime student of Haus of Shmizzay.
II — Performer
Performer
Praised for singing "gorgeously" (New York Times) and for her "staggering vocal control" (Poison Put to Sound), Bryce recently made her Off-Broadway debut in the world premiere of figaro/faggots, a play with opera by Kevin Carillo about the life and work of playwright and activist Larry Kramer, featuring the music of Mozart.
She has performed in numerous operas from the Baroque to the contemporary — including the title role in the world premiere of Being Ariodante by Johnathan Dawe — and has performed in concerts at prestigious venues throughout New York City, including Lincoln Center, National Sawdust, Mercury Store, Baryshnikov Arts Center, and Nancy Manocherian's the cell theatre.
III — Playwright
Playwright
Bryce's work encourages artists and audience members to forge deep connections, identify and question normalized forms of harm, and engage in radical, liberatory thinking.
In March 2023, her play with opera (or plopera, if you prefer) The Smallest Sound, in the Smallest Space premiered at Nancy Manocherian's the cell theatre to fully sold-out houses, including an added performance. In May of 2024, a staged reading was presented at the Clark Studio Theater at Lincoln Center, produced by The Why Collective and directed by Katy Early.
She performed her solo project The Eyes of Texas twice to sold-out houses at The Vino Theatre in Williamsburg. Her operatic play The Last Opera, a collaboration with composer Omar Najmi and director-developer Katy Early, received an initial libretto reading at Oberlin College in the Spring of 2025.
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