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| Lomeli, David | Tenor | |
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 Born in Mexico City, David Lomeli is quickly gaining prominence for the great beauty of his voice. A first-prize winner in Placido Domingo’s 2006 Operalia, Mr. Lomeli is the first Mexican tenor ever to have won the First Prize, and the first singer ever to win both the opera and zarzuela divisions in the world-renowned singing competition.
In 2006 he was the first-prize winner at the national tenor competition Nicolas Urcelay in Merida, Mexico and winner of the Palm Beach Opera Competition, Montserrat Caballé Competition, Zachary Foundation and Jose Iturbi Voice Competition.
Mr. Lomeli begins the 2009–2010 season as Rinuccio in Gianni Schicci for San Francisco Opera. He will be heard in an opera aria concert with soprano Nuccia Focile at University of California, Berkeley and will make his debut in Dijon, France as The Duke in Rigoletto. He will make his debut with the Berlin Philharmonic in Verdi’s Requiem followed by a gala concert in Prague. He will complete the season as Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni, for his debut with Michigan Opera Theater. Mr. Lomeli began the 2008 – 2009 season as Rodolfo in La bohème at Theatre Basel in Basel, Switzerland and then joined San Francisco Opera as a member of their prestigious Adler Fellowship Program. In the summer of 2009, he made his San Francisco Opera debut as Alfredo Germont in La Traviata, conducted by Donald Runnicles. Also during the 2008 – 2009 season Mr. Lomeli sang a concert of arias and duets at Southern Mississippi University, followed by his company debut with Madison Opera singing the title role of Gounod’s Faust. In the summer of 2009 he was heard in concert in Bad Kissingen as part of the Kissinger Sommer, a concert he repeated in Oslo, Norway. Most recently, Mr. Lomeli stepped in at the last moment to replace world famous tenor Rolando Villazon at the Teatro de Bellas Artes in Mexico City in a Gala concert to celebrate the tenth anniversary of S.I.V.A.M., Mexico’s most prestigious Young Artist Development Program. A graduate of the Los Angeles Opera’s Domingo-Thornton Young Artist Program, Mr. Lomeli made his debut with the company as Count Lerma and the Royal Herald in Don Carlos. Further performances in Los Angeles include Saboyano and Javier in Luisa Fernanada and Rodolfo in La bohème, which he also performed in Tel Aviv. In the summer of 2008 he appeared in concert with the Ventura Symphony and also with the Munich Radio Orchestra at the Bad Kissingen Festival, followed by performances of Don Ottavio in Mozart’s Don Giovanni as part of San Francisco Opera’s Merola Program. As a winner of Operalia, he joined the Puerto Rico Symphony orchestra in a Gala concert in 2007. Other highlights of the 2006 – 2007 season include a TV special for Television Española with Montserrat Caballé, a concert in Monterrey, Mexico with Gustavo Dudamel, and the opening of the Forum of Cultures in Monterrey with Eugene Kohn. Mr. Lomeli studied at the Accademia de Perfezionamento per Cantanti Lirici alla Scala and has worked with such distinguished musical authorities as Placido Domingo, James Conlon, Bruno Rigacci, Gustavo Dudamel, Mignon Dunn, Denise Massé, Joan Dornemann, and César Ulloa. He is a recipient of both the Placido Domingo and Pepita Serrano scholarships. Mr. Lomeli’s repertoire includes Alfredo in La Traviata, Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi, Rodolfo in La bohème, Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor, the title role in Faust, Macduff in Macbeth, and the Duke in Rigoletto. Management William G. Guerri, Matthew A. Epstein of CAMI: cami.com |
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| Buffs Performance(s): | 11/6/06 | |
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