Greta Bradman, legendary cricketer Sir Donald Bradman’s grand – daughter, Australian soprano, recitalist and stage performer is all set to make a debut performance in India this October. Recipient of 2013-14 Australian International Opera Award, winner of Critics choice awards including an APRA/AMCOS “Performance of the Year” award (2013) and numerous OzCart awards Greta will now be visiting India for the Australian World Orchestra’s tour of India. Greta Bradman, described as a soprano ‘with rare warmth and timbral richness’ (The Australian) has signed a debut recording deal with Decca Classics Australia for an album entitled ‘My Hero’.

The new album is a tribute to many of Greta’s own heroes – Richard Bonynge, her maternal grandfather Horace Young (an amateur opera singer), and her paternal grandfatherSir Donald Bradman, the legendary Australian cricketer with a lesser-known but ardent passion for music and especially the soprano voice.

It was SirDonald Bradman, himself a pianist, composer and former boy soprano soloist, as well as Horace Young, whose appreciation of the great voices imbued in their granddaughter a love for singers and singing. The old LPs in Sir Donald’s collection that Greta adored as a little girl, return to inform the repertoire on her Decca operatic debut recording which includes music by Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Bellini, Rossini, Verdi and Massenet, as well as a trio of bon-bons: ‘When you wish upon a star’, ‘Edelweiss’ and ‘I dreamt I dwelt in marble halls’.

In 2014, Richard Bonynge chose Greta to sing the title role of Rodelinda in the Handelopera of the same name with him conducting, of which ‘Classic Melbourne’ wrote: ‘With a dark mezzo quality in her middle voice and an ability to float her voice when singing soft sustained notes and intricate coloratura passages, she was at times uncannily similar in vocal quality to Sutherland’.

Greta has also garnered high praise from Zubin Mehta, for whom she auditioned in Vienna in March 2015, and with whom she will perform in October this year on the Australian World Orchestra’s tour of India.