Patrick Dailey

Patrick Dailey has been described as possessing “a powerful and elegant countertenor voice” and a “VOCAL STANDOUT”. International credits include the UK and Brazilian premieres of Hasse’s Marc’Antonio e Cleopatra with the Woodhouse Opera Festival and Il Festival de Ópera Barroca as all as the international premiere of Soosan Lolavar’s I.D. Please in the Tete a Tete New Opera Festival in London. He made his NYC cabaret debut in 2017 at the invitation of Tony Award winning composer Jason Robert Brown at Subculture NYC. On April 4th, Mr. Dailey served as featured artist, conductor, and music curator for the official MLK50 commemoration at the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, TN. Later that fall, he premiered the role of Mini-B/Boris the Boar in Dan Visconti and Cerise Jacobs’s Permadeath: A Video Game Opera with White Snakes Projects in Boston, MA to great acclaim. This spring, Mr. Dailey became the first countertenor to perform with Shreveport Opera singing Kyle in Robert Paterson’s Three Way: Masquerade. The reminder of the 2019 season included engagements with the IRIS Orchestra, ALIAS Chamber Ensemble, Music By Women Festival, and Boston Early Music Festival. As a scholar, he presented a performative presentation entitled “The Anatomy of the Black Voice: Peculiarities, Challenges, and Regional Differences” at the Center for Black Music Research’s 2013 Black Vocality Symposium. Mr. Dailey is a graduate of both Morgan State University and Boston University and serves on the voice faculty at Tennessee State University (TSU). At TSU, he established the Big Blue Opera Initiatives and the annual Harry T. Burleigh Spiritual Festival. Visit www.PatrickDaileyCT.com for more information.