Daniel Shirley, a native of Jackson, Mississippi and graduate student at Indiana University, has been featured with the IU Opera Theater as Ruggero in La Rondine, Roméo in Roméo et Juliette, and Fenton in Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor. Following a 2009 apprenticeship with Santa Fe Opera during which he covered Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni), the tenor sang the role of Edgar in the world premiere recording of Frédéric Chaslin’s Wuthering Heights at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia (Valencia) with the Orquesta de la Comunidad Valenciana and London Symphony Chorus. Other operatic engagements have included Sam in the family performance of Susannah and Larry/Matt in The Face on the Barroom Floor as an apprentice artist with Central City Opera, Don Curzio in The Marriage of Figaro as a studio artist with Chautauqua Opera, and an educational outreach tour as an Artist-in-Residence with Opera Memphis. Regional concert appearances have included St. Matthew Passion with the Bloomington Chamber Singers, Messiah with the Evansville Philharmonic, Mass in b minor with the Columbus (IN) Philharmonic, and Elijah with the Lafayette Bach Singers.