Baritone
Website: www.davidedamiani.com
Biography
Born in Tavullia, Pesaro Italy, Davide Damiani made his debut as a baritone in Tel Aviv in the title role of Don Giovanni, going on to become a member of the ensemble of the Wiener Staatsoper, where he appeared as Sharpless, Belcore and Conte d’Almaviva and in new productions of Enescu’s Oedipe, Le Prophète and Fedora as well as singing Comte de Toulose in Verdi’s Jérusalem under Zubin Mehta. Equally at home in contemporary opera as in the standard repertory, he has appeared in almost every Italian theatre and in many principal theatres on the international circuit and is highly considered as an outstanding actor/singer.
Roles performed
ADRIANA LECOUVREUR: Michonnet
Oper Frankfurt
L’Opéra de Nice
AIDA: Amonasro
Split Summer Festival
Bern Casino Auditorium
AN UNSEREM FLUSS (L. Navok): Fred Bucksmann
Oper Frankfurt
LA BOHEME: Marcello
Teatro Sociale di Como
Teatro Donizetti di Bergamo
Teatro Grande di Brescia
CARMEN: Escamillo
Hamburgische Staatsoper
Teatro Massimo Palermo
LES CONTES D’HOFFMANN: Four Villains
Wiener Volksoper
DEATH IN VENICE: Traveller/etc
L’Opéra de Nice
DIDON (Piccini): Iarbe
Teatro Petruzzelli di Bari
DON GIOVANNI: Title role
Welsh National Opera
Deutsche Oper am Rhein
Filarmonica di Verona
Canadian Opera Company
Palm Beach Opera
Teatro Petruzzelli di Bari
Noga Theater Tel Aviv
ELEGY FOR YOUNG LOVERS: Gregor Mittenhofer
Teatro delle Muse Ancona
FALSTAFF: Ford
Teater Basel
Teatro Verdi di Trieste
FEDORA: De Siriex
Wiener Staatsoper
LA FORZA DEL DESTINO: Don Carlo di Vargas
St Gallen
GENOVEVA: Siegfried
Teatro Massimo di Palermo
GESUALDO CONSIDERED AS A MURDERER (Francesconi): Gesualdo
Holland Festival Amsterdam
IL GIURAMENTO (Mercadante): Manfredo
Wexford Festival
GOYESCAS: Paquiro
Teatro Lirico di Cagliari
GUILLAUME TELL: Title role
Holland Festival
Teatr Wielki Warsaw
Saarländisches Staatstheater – Saarbrücken
Teatro Massimo di Palermo
William Tell Festival Interlaken
Metropolitan Opera (cover)
JERUSALEM: Comte de Toulouse
Wiener Staatsoper
Jerusalem Festival
JULIE (Boesmans): Jean
Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie
Wiener Festwochen
Aix en Provence Festival
KRENEK TRILOGY – DREI OPERN: Dictator
Oper Frankfurt
LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR: Enrico
Israeli Opera
MACBETH: Title role
Grand Théâtre de Genève
MADAMA BUTTERFLY: Sharpless
Wiener Staatsoper
Tokyo
Avenches Opéra Festival
MANON LESCAUT: Lescaut
Teatro Massimo di Palermo
Teatro La Fenice di Venezia
Teatro del Giglio di Lucca
NABUCCO: Title role
Split Summer Festival
LE NOZZE DI FIGARO: Conte d’Almaviva
Teatro Lirico di Cagliari
Wiener Staatsoper
Teatro Filarmonico di Verona
Deutsche Oper am Rhein
OEDIPE: Créon
Wiener Staatsoper
Enescu Festival
OEDIPE: Oedipe
Bucharest National Opera
ROH – London (cover)
LES OISEAUX DES PASSAGE (Vacchi): Alexander
Teatro Comunale di Bologna
PAGLIACCI: Tonio
Wexford Festival
PETER GRIMES: Balstrode
Oper Graz
PRINCE IGOR: Title role
Wiener Volksoper
I PURITANI: Riccardo
Palm Beach Opera
RAKES PROGRESS: Nick Shadow
Teatro Regio di Parma
Teatro L. Pavarotti di Modena
Reggio Emilia
Teatro Bellini di Catania
RAPE OF LUCRETIA: Prince Tarquinius
Grand Théâtre de Genève
Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
Teatro L. Pavarotti di Modena
Reggio Emilia
Teatro Regio di Parma
RIGOLETTO: Title role
Theater Bern
St Margarethen Festival
Korea National Opera
DAS RHEINGOLD: Donner
Wiener Staatsoper
IL TEOREMA DI PASOLINI (G. Battistelli): Paolo
Deutsche Oper Berlin
TOSCA: Scarpia
Theater Basel: St Margarethen Festival
Hong Kong Opera
Braunschweig Open Air Festspiele
LA TRAVIATA: Giorgio Germont
Tokyo
La Fenice di Venezia
Israeli Opera
Malmö Opera
L’UOMO DAL FIORE IN BOCCA (Brewaeys): L’uomo
Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie
LES VEPRES SICILIENNES: Guy de Montfort
L’Opéra de Nice
Oper der Stadt Bonn
LA VESTALE: Publio
Wexford Festival
VOLO DI NOTTE (Dallapiccola): Il Signor Rivière
Verdi Orchestra Milano
Video
Showreel: https://youtu.be/Tle3re3yl7c
Concerts
Beethoven SYMPHONY NO. 9; De Falla ATLANTIDA; Gounod MORS ET VITA; Haydn DIE SCHÖPFUNG; Henze NOVAE DE INFINITO LAUDES; Lukaszewski MISSA DE MARIA A MAGDALA; Mozart VESPERAE SOLENNES DE CONFESSORE; Rossini PETITE MESSE SOLENNELLE; Schoenberg A SURVIVOR FROM WARSAW (Italian version); Stravinsky LES NOCES: Turchi EXIL PER BARITONO E GRANDE ORCHESTRA; R. Vlad INVETTIVE E INVOCAZIONI PER BAR. E GRANDE ORCHESTRA
Conductors and Opera Directors he has worked with
Paolo Arrivabeni; Bertrand de Billy; Giampaolo Bisanti; Roland Böer; Riccardo Chailly; Myung-Whun Chung; Nicholas Cleobury; Patrick Davin; Enrico Delamboye; Srboljub Dinić; Gabriele Ferro; Asher Fisch; Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos; Michael Gielen; Anton Guadagno; Marco Guidarini; Michael Güttler; Nikolaus Harnoncourt; Alexander Joel; Lothar Koenigs; Fabio Luisi; Zubin Mehta; Ingo Metzmacher; Carlo Montanaro; Riccardo Muti; John Neschling; Kazushi Ono; Daniel Oren; Renato Palumbo; Marcello Panni; David Parry; Luca Pfaff; Carlo Rizzi; Pietro Rizzo; Juraj Valčuha; Jonathan Webb.
Daniele Abbado; Calixto Bieito; Luc Bondy; Valentina Carrasco; Robert Carsen; Willy Decker; Götz Friedrich; Christof Loy; Stefano Mazzonis di Pralafera; Francesco Micheli; Hans Neuenfels; Pier Luigi Pizzi; David Pountney; Jette Steckel; Franco Zeffirelli; Graham Vick.
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