Luiz-Ottavio Faria

Website: luizottaviofaria.com

Born in Brazil, international bass Luiz-Ottavia Faria studied at the Juilliard School of Music winning important competitions and awards including the 23rd National Carmen Gomes Competition, The Bass Guilherme Damiano Prize, The Juilliard School Scholarship, the William Randolph Hearst Foundation Award, Die Meistersinger (Aims), Austria, Opera Index, YWCA Vocal Competition, The Great Buffalo Opera Competition, The New Jersey State Opera Vocal Singing Competition and The Lola Hayes Vocal Competition. He was also a recipient of the William Matthews Sullivan Foundation Award. His operatic debut was in the role of Tom Un Ballo in Maschera alongside Carlo Bergonzi at the Theatre Municipal de Sao Paulo and he has gone on to appear in major theatres worldwide including La Scala Milan, Arena di Verona, Teatro Real Madrid and at Vienna’s Musikverein and New York’s Carnegie Hall in a most versatile and eclectic repertory.

AIDA: Ramfis/Re

Teatro Massimo di Palermo
Opéra de Marseille
Teatro di Verdura Palermo
Theatro Municipal de São Paulo
Seattle Opera
Theatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro
New Jersey State Opera
Lyric Opera Kansas City

L’AMOUR DES TROIS ORANGES: Le roi de Trèfle

Teatro di San Carlo di Napoli

ANNA BOLENA: Enrico

Teatro Verdi di Trieste

ATTILA: Title role

Palacio de la ópera de La Coruña

UN BALLO IN MASCHERA: Tom

Theatro Municipal de São Paulo
Theatro Municipal de Rio de Janeiro

LA BOHEME: Colline

Theatro Municipal de São Paulo
Knoxville Opera

I CAPULETI E I MONTECCHI: Capellio

Carnegie Hall
Teatro Filarmonico del Arena di Verona

DON CARLO: Grande Inquisitore

Abeo-Olbe Bilbao
Teatro Auditorio San Lorenzo de El Escorial
Theatro Municipal de São Paulo
Ópera de Tenerife
Teatro Comunale di Bologna

DON GIOVANNI: Commendatore

Teatre Principal de Maó Menorca
Ópera de Bellas Artes, Mexico City
Caramoor International Music Festival

ERNANI: Silva

Carnegie Hall
Festival Amazonas

DIE ENTFÃœHRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL: Osmin

The Juilliard School
Auditorio Alfredo Kraus Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER: Daland

Theatro Municipal de São Paulo

FLORENCIA EN EL AMAZONAS: El Capitan

Seattle Opera

FOSCA: Gajolo

Teatro Municipal de São Paolo

LA GIOCONDA: Alvise

Concergebouw Amsterdam
Teatro Amazonas Manaus
Theatro Municipal de São Paulo
Carnegie Hall

THE GREEK PASSION: Priest Fotis

Teatro Massimo di Palermo

LES HUGUENOTS: Marcel

Carnegie Hall
Miled Music Opera Toluca Mexico

LOHENGRIN: King Heinrich

Theatro Municipal de São Paulo

LUCREZIA BORGIA: Alfonso d’Este

Carnegie Hall
Palacio de la ópera de La Coruña

MACBETH: Banco

Teatro alla Scala
New Jersey State Opera
Theatro Municipal de São Paulo
Theatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro

MEFISTOFELE: Title role

Connecticut Concert Opera

NABUCCO: Zaccaria

Teatro Carlo Felice Genova
Teatro Massimo Palermo
Opera Baltimore
Odeon of Herodes Atticus
Opera Carolina
Teatre Principal Mallorca
Opéra National de Montpellier

NORMA: Oroveso

Opéra de Quebec
Auditorio Alfredo Kraus Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Palm Beach Opera
Kansas Lyric Opera

LES PECHEURS DE PERLES: Nourabad

Carnegie Hall
Theatro Municipal de São Paulo
Opera Carolina

I PURITANI: Sir Giorgio Valton

Amigos de la Ópera de A Coruña

PORGY AND BESS: Title role

Theater Des Westens, Berlin
Musiskferein Concert Hall, Vienna
Teatro Palácio Das Artes, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

RIGOLETTO: Sparafucile/Monterone

Teatro Filarmonico del Arena di Verona
Teatro Real Madrid
Teatro Comunale di Bologna
Pamplona (A.G.A.O)

ROMEO ET JULIETTE: Friar Laurence

Opera Grand Rapids

SIMON BOCCANEGRA: Fiesco

Teatro Massimo di Palermo
Teatro Comunale di Bologna

TANNHÄUSER: Landgraf/Biterolf

Hawaii Opera Theatre

IL TROVATORE: Ferrando

Theatro Municipal de São Paulo

TURANDOT: Timur

Arena di Verona
Palacio de la Ópera de La Coruña
Palm Beach Opera
Theatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro
L’Opéra de Toulon

I VESPRI SICILIANI: Procida

Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova

LA WALLY: Stromminger

Teatro Nacional de São Carlos Lisbon

Die ZAUBERFLÖTE: Sarastro

Palm Beach Opera
Virginia Opera
Knoxville Opera
University of Georgia Opera Theatre

Verdi MESSA DA REQUIEM; Albinoni MAGNIFICAT; Rossini STABAT MATER; Rossini MASS IN Eb MAJOR; Bach MAGNIFICAT; Bach ST MATTHEW PASSION; Elgar THE KINGDOM; Mozart REQUIEM; Beethoven SYMPHONY NO. 9

Roberto Abbado; Allex Aguilera, Antonello Allemandi; Naum Alves de Souza; Ligia Amadio; Bruno Aprea; Silvio Barbato; Enrique Batiz; Maurizio Benini; Arnaud Bernard Sergio Brito; Lorenza Cantini; Giuliano Carella; Fabrizio Maria Carminati; Alejandro Chacon; Francois Clemmons; Will Crutchfield; Giancarlo del Monaco; Srboljub Dinic; Roberto Duarte; Mark Flint; Jose’ Maria Florencio; Carroll Freeman; Riccardo Frizza; Giorgio Gallione; Franco Gentilesca; Mark Gibson; Francis Graffeo; Ward Holmquist; Chen Kaige; Peter Keuschig; Kamal Khan; Eugene Kohn; Bernard Labadie; Mauricio Garcia Lozano; Isaac Karabtchevsky; Marco Lacomelli; Bia Lessa; Ira Levin; Robert Lyall; Pier Francesco Maestrini; Fernando Malheiro; Jamil Maluf; Saverio Marconi; Kristine McIntyre; James Meena; Roberto Minckzuc; Andrew Morton; Kazushi Ono; Daniel Oren; Gregory Ortega; Roberto Oswald; Jung-Ho Pak; Henrique Passini; Antonio Pirolli; Stefano Poda; Eve Queler; Franco Ripa di Meana; Andrei Serban; Jerome Shannon; Ira Siff; Alfredo Silipigni; Kevin Stites; Thaddeus Strassberger; Eduarda Strausser; Stephanie Sundine; Kyle Swann; Yoav Talmi; Neil Veron, Luiz Mark Verzatt; Grahan Vick; Silvio Viegas; Gabriel Villela; Franco Zeffirelli.

TURANDOT – Arena di Verona alongside Guleghina, Licitra, Iveri.

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