Blake Davidson

Dallas, TX native Blake Davidson is an award-winning singer who has performed all over the world, and whose range of experience includes opera, symphony, and musical theatre.  He received his vocal training at The University of North Texas and has been presented in solo concerts at NYU, Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, and the Tokyo Opera House.

Mr. Davidson has sung with the Anchorage Opera, the Dallas Opera, the Dallas Symphony (on whose Christmas CD he is the featured soloist), the Fort Worth Symphony, and The Florida Orchestra. Performances outside the US include New Zealand’s Auckland Philharmonia and the Filharmonico de Jalisco (Guadalajara, Mexico). Early in his career he was seen off-Broadway at 2nd Stage, and as the ringmaster for the Shrine circus.

Davidson’s awards and nominations include the American Repertoire Award at the Bellini Competition in Sicily, and a Best Actor in a Musical  nomination for the prestigious Leon Rabin Award for his portrayal of Fred/Petruchio in “Kiss Me, Kate”.  He is in demand as soloist and recording artist with many symphonies, most recently the Dallas Symphony “Christmas at the Superpops” concert, and a Beethoven 9th Symphony  with the Corpus Christi Symphony. In December 2019 he was the featured soloist with the San Angelo Symphony in their “Home for the Holidays” Christmas concert, and in July of 2021 he soloed with the Corpus Christi Symphony in their ‘Christmas in July’ concert.

Mr. Davidson is a producer of, and performer in, the national touring shows “The 3 Redneck Tenors” and “The Tenors of Comedy”, the latter of which was recently featured on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.

UPCOMING SCHEDULE

2023 Tour Dates (with The 3 Redneck Tenors)

May 18th – Sellersville, PA – Sellersville Theater
May 20 – Shipshewana, IN – Blue Gate Theater
May 27th – Baytown, TX – Lee College Performing Arts Center
June 2nd – Fredricksburg, TX – The Rockbox Theater
June 10th – West Jefferson, NC – Ashe County Civic Center
June 19th – Hudson, FL – Suncoast Broadway Theater
June 24th – Wilmington, OH – Murphy Theater
August 23rd – Ft. Mill, SC
September 8th – Rocky Mount, NC – The Dunn Center
September 14th – Loveland, CO – The Rialto Theater
September 26th – Rock Springs, WY
September 28th – Pinedale, WY
September 30th – Everett, WA – The Historic Everett Theatre
October 6th – Lubbock, TX – Cactus Theater
October 7th – Artesia, NM – Ocotillo Performing Arts Center
October 14th – Huntsville, TX – Old Town Theatre
October 27th – Glen Allen, VA – The Cultural Arts Center
November 11th – Statesville, NC – Mac Grey Auditorium
November 17th & 18th – Hudson, FL – Suncoast Broadway Theater
November 27th – Berlin, OH – Amish Country Theater
December 1st – Marietta, GA – The Strand Theatre
December 3rd in Newnan, GA
December 4th in Waleska, GA
December 9th & 10th – Littleton, NC – Lakeland Cultural Arts Center
December 11th & 12th – Hilton Head, SC – Sun City Hilton Head
December 14th – Maryville, TN
December 16th – Marshall, TX

Feel the Rhythm!, Voices Intimae
“Blake Davidson’s outgoing manner was allied to an attractively brassy baritone.”
– Scott Cantrell, DALLAS MORNING NEWS

H.M.S. Pinafore (Bill Bobstay), The Living Opera
“Actually, the Living Opera has a fine bunch of singers. Blake Davidson’s Bill Bobstay is a standout, with a particularly powerful and well-formed voice.”
– Scott Cantrell, DALLAS MORNING NEWS

Man of La Mancha (The Duke/Dr. Carrasco), Casa Manana
“Blake Davidson as the doctor . . . provides some of the show’s best singing.”
– Lawson Taitte, DALLAS MORNING NEWS

Evita (Juan Peron), Lyric Stage
“Davidson’s lush voice and sharp acting skills made his performance bounce.”
– Elaine Liner, THE DALLAS OBSERVER

Carnegie Hall (Weill Hall) concert
“The marvelous American baritone Blake Davidson gave his wonderful stage presence and rich, house-filling voice to Rogers & Hammerstein’s “Soliloquy” from Carousel. He is a splendid performer who brings a great dignity and maturity that goes beyond his still relatively few years. As he grows as an artist, I will not be at all surprised to see him join the ranks of such great singers as Thomas Hampson or William Sharp.”
– Jeffrey James, Editor, INTERNATIONAL COMPOSER

Pagliacci (Tonio), Auckland Philharmonia
Auckland, NZ
“The two Americans impressed . . . Blake Davidson, as Tonio, putting the Prologue across with the same pizzazz that one might expect from a baritone who has Rodgers and Hammerstein’s ‘Soliloquy’ under his belt.”
– William Dart, THE NEW ZEALAND HERALD

Rodgers and Hammerstein Tribute, The Florida Orchestra
Tampa, Clearwater, St. Petersburg, FL
“Davidson . . . has a tour de force in ‘Soliloquy.'”
– John Fleming, ST. PETERSBURG TIMES

The Best of Broadway, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra
Forth Worth, Texas
“Davidson just about brought the house down with ‘Ol’ Man River’.”
– Punch Shaw, FORT WORTH STAR TELEGRAM

Tribute to Richard Rodgers, Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Dallas, Texas
“Mr. Davidson would probably win the Mr. Personality award, his ‘Soliloquy’ from Carousel glowed with life.”
– Olin Chislm, DALLAS MORNING NEWS

Broadway!, Dallas Symphony Pops
Dallas, Texas
“Blake Davidson stood out from the pack with a ringing, glorious baritone. He displayed exceptional power even in his highest notes and a consistently gorgeous tone.”
– Punch Shaw, FORT WORTH STAR TELEGRAM

“Dallas Christmas Gala” CD recording
Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
“The high points . . . are Blake Davidson’s solos, his baritone as warm and rich as plum pudding.”
– Scott Cantrell, DALLAS MORNING NEWS

 

Blake Davidson with The Tenors of Comedy performing as The 3 Torettos on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon

Blake Davidson sings “Grateful”

Blake Davidson as Elijah
with the Texas Wesleyan University orchestra and chorus.

The Music of the Night from “Phantom of the Opera”

Where is the Life that Late I Led? From “Kiss Me Kate”

Where Thine that Special Face? From “Kiss Me Kate”

I’ve Come to Wive it Wealthy in Padula From “Kiss Me Kate”

Blake Davidson sings “Lean Away” by Gene Scheer