David Daniels

David Daniels emerged in the 1990s among the most powerful members of the crop of fresh countertenors. His parents had been both tone of voice educators, and he qualified for several years like a tenor, nonetheless it had not been until his decision to explore the countertenor repertory that his tone of voice found its greatest element. He also fell deeply in love with the Baroque repertory, which may be the primary way to obtain roles from the countertenor tone of voice. He has stated that Handel’s music offers even more emotion than actually the histrionic verismo college of Italian opera, and he is becoming particularly from the part of Nero in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea. He sang it using the Florida Grand Opera in another of his early looks, and gained worldwide popularity in the spend the the Glimmerglass Opera’s creation in 1994, reprising the function with this company on the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1996. Daniels’ tone of voice is solid and representative of a more recent style of even more masculine countertenor performing, free of the normal hooty audio of previously exponents of the tone of voice range. Of his Nero functionality, the Wall Road Journal stated that he “brought straight down the home with ferocious coloratura.” He debuted using the Glyndebourne Festival Opera in 1996 as Didymus in Handel’s Theodora, with stage path by Peter Sellars, within a functionality that was known as riveting. He frequently sings in one of the most prominent 20th hundred years countertenor function, Oberon in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Wish, that was his London debut function using the British Country wide Opera. His various other repertory contains Handel’s Tamerlano, Xerxes and Jephtha (his Salzburg Celebration debut function), Sesto in Giulio Cesare (his Metropolitan Opera debut function in 1999) and, in concert, a unique selection of functions which range from Baroque to Britten and including such composers as Debussy, Gounod and Massenet. In 1997 he became the first countertenor to earn the sought after Richard Tucker Award.