Cited as "A musician of distinction among singers" by the Washington Post and "A Young Artist to Watch" by Musical America, soprano Dinah Bryant has won consistently high praise for her international operatic and concert performances, Liederabends and recordings. Miss Bryant has performed more than 50 operatic roles throughout Europe and North America. She made her first foray into the music of Richard Wagner in 1995 as Senta in Der fliegende Holländer at the Opera de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. Miss Bryant joined the roster of the Metropolitan Opera in 1996 making her house debut as Gerhilde in Die Walküre.

In June of 2005 Miss Bryant returned to the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires as Sieglinde in Die Walküre under the baton of Charles Dutoit, after having débuted in this role in 2004 at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City’s first ever production of DieWalküre. She opened the 2003-2004 season performing a Gala Concert with the Johnstown Symphony Orchestra. Also in the season she was heard with both the National Symphony Orchestra and the OFUNAM Orchestras in Mexico in Handel’s Messiah and Strauss’ Vier Letzte Lieder, respectively.

During the 2002-2003 season, Miss Bryant returned to the Virginia Opera as Chrysothemis in Elektra, was in Paris for A Sea Symphony of Vaughan-Williams, and sang Verdi’s Messa da Requiem with the Tulsa Philharmonic and the Flint Symphony. She sang an Opera Gala at the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels, and was a guest of the National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico for Carmina Burana. Miss Bryant also appeared in concert for Berlioz’ Les nuits d’Eté with the National Orchestra of Mexico, She also made appearances with the Luxembourg Philharmonic (formerly the RTL) and was soloist in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Long Beach Symphony.

In recent seasons Miss Bryant made her début as Marie in Wozzeck at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, sang the title role of Salome in Mexico City, St. Gallen, Grand Rapids and Knoxville, Gutrune in Götterdämmerung in Santiago, Chile, Wesendonk Lieder with the National Orchestra of Belgium, sang her first Leonore in Fidelio in Durham, North Carolina and performed Liederabends in France, Belgium and the Netherlands.

Since 1989 Miss Bryant has sung acclaimed performances as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni in Dortmund and Kiel, the title role of Ariadne auf Naxos in Mexico City and at the Virginia Opera, Leonora in Il trovatore at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, and Salome and Chrysothemis in Elektra in Mexico City. Highlights of Miss Bryant's early career included engagements as a lyric soprano in Detroit with Antal Dorati, with Lorin Maazel at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, as well as in Paris, New York, Munich, Brussels, Liege, Marseille and Stuttgart.

Miss Bryant has performed extensively as a soloist with orchestra in Strauss' Vier Letzte Lieder, Beethoven's Missa Solemnis and Ninth Symphony, Mahler Symphonies Nos. 2, 4, & 8, Orff's Carmina Burana, Brahms' Ein Deutsches Requiem, the Stabat Mater and Requiem of Dvorak, Gorecki's Symphony No. 3, Berlioz' L'enfance du Christ, Ravel's Shéhérazade, Rossini's Stabat Mater, Handel's Messiah, and the Exultate, jubilate! and many other Mozart concert arias. She has appeared with the RTL Orchestra, the Netherlands Radio Orchestra, the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, the RAI Orchestra in Turino, L'Orchestre Municipal de Lille, the Liége Philharmonic, the National Orchestra of Mexico, the Brighton Philharmonic, the Australian Chamber Orchestra, the Belgian Radio Orchestras, and the Maryland Symphony, to name a few.

Miss Bryant's concert appearances as a Lieder recitalist have included recitals on the main stage of Carnegie Hall, in Paris at the Théatre des Grevlins, at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., at the Lobero Theater in Santa Barbara, on the Schubert Club International Artists Series, in Brussels at the Palais des Beaux Arts with bass-baritone José Van Dam, at the Théatre de la Monnaie, at the Cercle Gauloise, at the Festival Lyrique de Beausoleil in Monaco, at the Palais des Papes in Avignon, and at the Swedish Early Summer Music Festival. She has also performed several live recitals over the Netherlands Radio Network.

Her recording of Strauss Lieder with pianist Daniel Blumenthal was the winner of a Golden Disc Award by Bruxelles-Europe Arts Magazine. Miss Bryant again joined Daniel Blumenthal in a highly praised CD of Wolf's Mörike Lieder on Autograph Records, followed by a collection of songs of Joseph Marx on Etcetera Records. Miss Bryant was the voice of the leading lady, Sophie, in the 1989 Academy Award-nominated film, Le maitre de Musique (The Music Teacher) with José Van Dam, for which she was awarded a Grand Prix du Disque.

Miss Bryant lives in Brussels, Belgium with her husband, pianist Daniel Blumenthal. They are both on the faculty of the Royal Flemish Conservatory of Music.

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