Danielle Bavli is an American soprano from New York City now based in Sydney, Australia. Praised for her “warmth and tendresse” (San Diego Story), Danielle is a versatile performer across a broad spectrum of operatic and lyric theatre repertoire.

In the 2024 season, Danielle made her Australian debut as Mabel in The Pirates of Penzance with Rockdale Opera Company. Her 2022-2023 season highlights included Luanna in Angel of the Amazon (Encompass New Opera Theatre), Gherardino in Gianni Schicchi, and Bridesmaid in Trial by Jury (Salt Marsh Opera) and Servilia in La clemenza di Tito (Bronx Opera). 2022 saw Danielle return to the Janiec Opera Company at Brevard Music Center - where she starred as Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia and appeared as concert soloist in Opera's Greatest Hits and An Evening with Cole Porter.

Other recent highlights include Norina in Don Pasquale (Pacific Northwest Opera) and The Queen of Night in Die Zauberflöte (Opera NEO). Other roles include L'Eternita and Calisto (cover) in Cavalli's La Calisto (Opera NEO), Soprano 1 in Glass's Hydrogen Jukebox (Boston Conservatory Opera), Cunegonde (cover) in Bernstein's Candide (Brevard Music Center), Stephanie in Heggie's To Hell and Back (Vanderbilt Opera Theatre), Amy March in Adamo's Little Women (Vanderbilt Opera Theatre) and Carey in Ching's Speed Dating Tonight! (Vanderbilt Opera Theatre).

Danielle was the winner of the 2019 Music Worcester Young Artist Competition and was featured on a 2018 WQXR Young Artists Showcase. She is the recipient of an Emerging Talent Award from Kurt Weill Foundation's Lotte Lenya Competition - which “celebrates singing actors who can ‘do it all’ across the dynamic landscape of lyric theater.” She was a 2021 Milnes VOICE Studio participant at the Savannah VOICE Festival and has been a member of the College Light Opera Company. She has also performed with the Vancouver International Song Institute (VISI) and SongFest, Odyssey Opera and Boston Opera Collaborative.

Danielle's operatic foundation was built during an 8-season career in the Children's Chorus of The Metropolitan Opera, New York. She holds a Master of Music in Opera Performance at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee and a Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance from the Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University (where she received the Michelson Award for Collaborative Arts and the Robin Nell Dickerson Award for excellence in performance and scholarship).