Baritone Leroy Y. Davis is a second-year member of the Ryan Opera Center. In the Lyric Opera of Chicago’s 2020-21 virtual programming, Davis appeared in Lawrence Brownlee and Friends: The Next Chapter, Master Classes with Sir Andrew Davis, Creating The Factotum, Sole e amore, Magical Music Around the World, and Rising Stars in Concert. Recent company debuts include The New York Festival of Song; the world premiere of Ricky Ian Gordon and Lynn Nottage’s Intimate Apparel at Lincoln Center Theatre; Opera Theatre of Saint Louis as Pastor, Layabout Man, James, Kaboom/Terence Blanchard and Kasi Lemmons’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones (world premiere) as a Gerdine Young Artist; the Phoenicia Festival as Belcore in L'elisir d'amore; Boston Opera Collaborative as Leporello in Don Giovanni; and Odyssey Opera as Ernesto Malcom,Giovanni Pacini’s Maria, Regina d’Inghilterra.