The bass-baritone Bradley Garvin is known for his commanding stage presence and his powerful, full voice. During the current season Mr. Garvin sings the title role in Der fliegende Holländer with the Madison Opera and reprises his role as the King in Aida at The Bregenz Festival. Future engagements include roles with the Metropolitan Opera, Dallas Opera, Florida Grand Opera, and Boston Lyric Opera. During the previous season he returned as the banker and theatre director in Lulu at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, and played the roles of Monterone in Rigoletto at the Houston Grand Opera, at the Toledo Opera as Jochanaan in Salome, and the King of Egypt in Aida at the Bregenz Festival. His stage performances of the recent past include Prince Arjuna in Philip Glass’s Satyagraha at the Metropolitan Opera, the King of Egypt in Aida and the Parson in The Cunning Little Vixen at Houston Grand Opera as well as Sharpless in Madame Butterfly at the Lyric Opera of Kansas City. Among the other notable venues he has sung at are the New York City Opera, Arizona Opera, Sarasota Opera, Calgary Opera, the Opera Theater of St. Louis, Pittsburgh Opera, Minnesota Opera and Palm Beach Opera. On the concert stage he has sung Beethoven's 9th Symphony with the Delaware Symphony Orchestra, Handel's Messiah with the International Music Foundation, and he has performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in Bach's St Matthew Passion and with the National Chorale in Bach's B minor Mass, the Philharmonia Virtuosi in Haydn's Creation, the Bach Consort of Washington in the St John Passion and the Columbus Symphony Orchestra in Honegger's Cantate de Noel.