Cited as "a musician of distinction among singers" by the Washington Post, soprano Dinah Bryant consistently wins high praise for her international operatic and concert performances, Liederabends and recordings. Miss Bryant has performed more than 50 operatic roles throughout Europe and the Americas. She made her first foray into the music of Richard Wagner as Senta in Der fliegende Holländer at the Opera de Bellas Artes in Mexico City in 1995 and joined the roster of the Metropolitan Opera in 1996 making her house debut as Gerhilde in Die Walküre.
Miss Bryant has performed extensively as 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 Exultate, jubilate! and many concert arias of Mozart 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.
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.
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