David Salsbery Fry's 2025-26 season starts off with BMO/sounds's debut recording of Argento's Poe

Singer David Salsbery Fry's diverse career as a singer, recording artist, actor, and narrator kicks off this 2025-26 season with his fifth recording for Grammy Award-winning record label BMOP/sound, utilizing his expressive, powerful bass in several roles - Theater Director, M. Dupin, etc. in the premiere recording of Dominick Argento's The Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe.

Mr. Fry's previous recordings with Odyssey Opera in collaboration with Boston Modern Opera Project (BMOP) include the 2025 release of Foss and Karsavina’s The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (as The Stranger) (BMOP/sound 1102), as the Earl of Pembroke in Rosner and Stevenson’s The Chronicle of Nine (BMOP/sound 1081), as Butt the Hoopoe in Wuorinen and Fenton’s Haroun and the Sea of Stories (BMOP/sound 1075), as the narrator in Fussell’s Cymbeline (BMOP/sound 1059), and as Methousael and Sadoc in La reine de Saba (Odyssey Opera).

Fry has also recorded for record labels Naxos, New World, Navona, and Albany.

Recent engagements include Dvorak's Stabat Mater with Harvard Summer Chorus, appearances with Jupiter Opera, Westchester Oratorio Society, Holy City Arts & Lyric Opera (South Carolina), Opera Siam (Thailand), Chicago Opera Theater, Odyssey Opera, and Opera Tampa. With a voice that transcends genres, Fry was engaged by Marvel Entertainment and Six to Start (the company behind "Zombies, Run!"), and voiced the character of Charles Xavier (Professor X) in "X-Men: Age of Orchis" for the popular mobile interactive fitness adventure offering.

ABOUT DAVID
Singer David Salsbery Fry continues to captivate audiences with each role. Acclaimed for his expressive, powerful bass voice, wide range and nuanced versatility, along with an authentic and engaging stage presence, Fry's diverse career includes the roles of singer, actor, narrator, and recording artist. Having performed throughout the United States, in Europe, Canada, Thailand, and Israel, Fry continues to expand his relationship with orchestras and opera companies through a broad range of repertoire, from Verdi, Mozart, Rossini, and Britten, to Argento, Chen, Foss, Fussell, Honegger, Sondheim, and more.

As comfortable with new music as he is with established operas and arias, David Salsbery Fry has premiered works by numerous composers, including Robert Aldridge, Shawn Brogan Allison, Lembit Beecher, Justine F. Chen, Frank Corcoran, Chaya Czernowin, John David Earnest, Ruby Fulton, Juliana Hall, Jenny Olivia Johnson, Louis Karchin, Lowell Liebermann, Adam Maor, Eric Nathan, Osnat Netzer, Steve Potter, Arnold Rosner, Joseph Summer, Kristian Twombly, Nicholas Vines and Scott Wheeler. He has also collaborated with Mark Adamo, James Granville Eakin III, Oliver Knussen, Ari Benjamin Meyers, Nico Muhly, John Musto, Judith Shatin, and Charles Wuorinen.

With a voice that has been praised as “Incredible! …Truly remarkable and astounding…”, “darkly sonorous,” and possessing “almost impossibly deep tones”, Fry has created a name for himself in the recording arena, appearing on recordings for Albany, Navona, BMOP/sound, Naxos, New World and Odyssey Opera.

A passionate advocate for performers with disabilities and a supporter of inclusion and diversity in all art forms, Fry believes in the importance of accessibility in the arts for artists with disabilities. He has written articles for and been featured in such media outlets as The Disabled Divas Podcast, Howl Round, Classical Singer, The Liberated Voice, and Opera and Disability.

David Salsbery Fry holds a B.A. from The Johns Hopkins University, a M.M. in Opera Performance from the University of Maryland at College Park, and a Graduate Diploma in Voice from The Juilliard School. Among his numerous awards are Semifinalist, Concours Musical International de Montréal, Finalist, Middle Atlantic Region, The Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, and the Grand Prize of the Bidu Savão International Vocal Competition.

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