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ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES

Davia Bouley Photo: Simon Pauly
Contralto/Second Lady

Acclaimed for having a voice of “true beauty”
(Operawire), American contralto Davia Bouley is
attracting attention from US and European audiences
alike for her distinctive rich voice and her alluring
stage presence. She has performed with opera
companies, music festivals and in concert all over
the United States and Europe, including Cincinnati
Opera, Theater Dortmund, Indianapolis Opera,
Isarphilharmonie München, Aspen Music Festival,
Berliner Philharmonie, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden
and Deutsche Oper Berlin.
In the 2023-24 season, Bouley returned to the
Deutsche Oper Berlin for some exciting new
productions and role debuts: Maestra delle Novizie in
Suor Angelica and Third Secretary in Nixon in China.
She reprised her roles as Delia in Il viaggio a Reims
and Dritte Dame in Die Zauberflöte. She made
her concert debuts at the Alte Oper Frankfurt and
the Liederhalle Stuttgart as well as a return to the
Meistersingerhalle Nürnberg, Isarphilharmonie
München and the Berliner Philharmonie as Flosshilde
in Der Ring an einem Abend.

In recent seasons, she made a role and house debut Bostridge, and Hippolyta in a new production of
as Siegrune in Die Walküre with Theater Dortmund, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, under the musical
directed by Peter Konwitschny; a return to the US as direction of Sir Donald Runnicles.
the alto soloist in Handel’s Messiah with the Texas As a concert soloist, Bouley has performed many
Master Chorale; return to Deutsche Oper Berlin notable works in the alto repertoire, including Bach’s
as Dritte Dame in Die Zauberflöte, and a tour of Magnificat, Mozart’s Requiem and Solemn Vespers,
concert debuts as Flosshilde in Der Ring an einem Duruflé’s Requiem, Haydn’s Theresienmesse,
Abend with the Weimar Staatskapelle, performing at Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 and Choral Fantasy,
the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Isarphilharmonie Debussy’s Trois Chansons and Handel’s Messiah.
München, Weimarhalle, Meistersingerhalle Nürnberg She has also performed contemporary works such
and the Berliner Philharmonie. as George Crumb’s Unto the Hills and Jean Berger’s
Bouley made her European debut at the Deutsche Five Songs on Poems of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots
Oper Berlin in the 2017-18 season as the at the Grandin Festival.
2 Paysanne in their new production of Meyerbeer’s A native of Southern California, she received her
nd
Le Prophète under the baton of Enrique Mazzola. Bachelor of Arts with an emphasis in Voice at
She then went on to perform more roles at Deutsche Pepperdine University, under the tutelage of Henry
Oper that season, including Zweite Dame in Das Price. She earned her Master of Music in Vocal
Märchen von der Zauberflöte, Delia in Il viaggio a Performance from the University of Cincinnati
Reims and Lola in Cavalleria Rusticana. She has since College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) as a student
become a regular guest soloist with the company, of Kenneth Shaw.
returning recently to perform roles including Dritte www.daviabouley.com
Dame in Die Zauberflöte, the Beggar Woman in
Graham Vick’s Death in Venice alongside Ian

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