Bass
Website: luizottaviofaria.com
Biography
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.
Roles performed
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 ENTFÜHRUNG 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
Videos
Concerts include
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
Conductors and Directors he has worked with
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.
Recordings – DVD
TURANDOT – Arena di Verona alongside Guleghina, Licitra, Iveri.
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