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David Daniels

David Daniels (born 12 March 1966) is an American

United States

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countertenor

Countertenor

A countertenor is a male voice type whose vocal range is equivalent to that of a contralto, mezzo-soprano or a soprano, usually through use of falsetto, or more rarely the normal or modal voice....
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els was born in Spartanburg, South Carolina

Spartanburg, South Carolina

Spartanburg is the largest city in and the county seat of Spartanburg County, South Carolina, South Carolina, United States. It is the second-largest city of the three primary cities in Upstate South Carolina region of South Carolina....
, the son of two singing teachers. He began to sing as a boy soprano, moving to tenor

Tenor

The tenor is a type of male voice type and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between the C one octave below middle C to the A above in choral music, and up to high C in solo work....
as his voice matured. He studied music at the Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music

Cincinnati Conservatory of Music

The Cincinnati Conservatory of Music was a conservatory, part of a girls' finishing school, founded in 1867 in Cincinnati, Ohio. It merged with the College of Music of Cincinnati in 1955, forming the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, which is now part of the University of Cincinnati....
. Dissatisfied with his achievements as a tenor, Daniels switched to singing countertenor during graduate studies at the University of Michigan

University of Michigan

The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan is a public university research university located in the state of Michigan. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan, which also includes two regional campuses in University of Michigan-Flint and University of Michigan-Dearborn....
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els made his professional singing debut in 1992.

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David Daniels (born 12 March 1966) is an American

United States

Countertenor

Youth

Daniels was born in Spartanburg, South Carolina

Spartanburg, South Carolina

Tenor

Cincinnati Conservatory of Music

University of Michigan

Professional debut

Daniels made his professional singing debut in 1992. In 1997, he won the Richard Tucker Award

List of Richard Tucker Award winners

The Richard Tucker Award is awarded annually by the Richard Tucker Music Foundation to an USA-born opera singer on the threshold of a major national and international career. The award carries a cash prize ....
. In 1999, he made his debut with the Metropolitan Opera

Metropolitan Opera

The Metropolitan Opera Association of New York City, founded in April 1880, is a major presenter of all types of opera including Grand Opera. Peter Gelb is the company's general manager and James Levine is music director....
as Sesto in Giulio Cesare
Giulio Cesare

Giulio Cesare in Egitto is an Italian language opera in three acts written by George Frideric Handel in 1724. The libretto was written by Nicola Francesco Haym....
. His repertoire has grown to include other major Handel's roles, including Julius Caesar: Arsace in the comedy Partenope

Partenope

Partenope is an opera by George Frideric Handel, first performed at the Her Majesty's Theatre in London on 24 February, 1730....
(at the Lyric Opera of Chicago

Lyric Opera of Chicago

Lyric Opera of Chicago is one of the leading opera companies in the United States. It was founded in Chicago in 1952, under the name 'Lyric Theatre of Chicago' by Carol Fox, Nicol? Rescigno and Lawrence Kelly, with a season that included Maria Callas's American debut in Norma ....
), the title role in Tamerlano
Tamerlano

Tamerlano is an opera in three acts, with music by George Frideric Handel to an Italy text by Nicola Francesco Haym, adapted from Agostin Piovene's Tamerlano together with another libretto entitled Bajazet after Nicolas Pradon's Tamerlan, ou La Mort de Bajazet....
and Arsamene in Xerxes. At the Bavarian State Opera

Bavarian State Opera

The Bayerische Staatsoper is an opera company based in Munich, Germany in existence since 1653. Its orchestra is the Bavarian State Orchestra....
in Munich he played the title roles in Rinaldo
Rinaldo (opera)

Rinaldo is an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel, now a part of the standard operatic repertoire. The Italian libretto was written by Giacomo Rossi based on episodes of Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata ....
and Orlando
Orlando (opera)

Orlando is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel. The Italian language-language libretto was adapted from Carlo Sigismondo Capece's L'Orlando after Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, which was also the source of Handel's operas Alcina and Ariodante....
as well as David in Saul. Furthermore he interpreted Ottone in Monteverdi

Claudio Monteverdi

Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi , was an Italian composer, viol, and singer.Monteverdi's work, often regarded as revolutionary, marked the transition from the music of the Renaissance music to that of the Baroque music....
's L'Incoronazione di Poppea
L'incoronazione di Poppea

L'incoronazione di Poppea is an opera seria in three acts by Claudio Monteverdi to an Italian libretto by Giovanni Francesco Busenello, based on historical incidents described in the Annals ....
. In Vivaldi

Antonio Vivaldi

Antonio Lucio Vivaldi , nicknamed il Prete Rosso , was a Baroque music composer and Venice priest, as well as a famous virtuoso violinist, born and raised in the Republic of Venice....
's opera Bajazet
Bajazet (opera)

Bajazet is an Italy opera composed by Antonio Vivaldi in 1735. Its libretto was written by Agostino Piovene. It was premiered in Verona, during the Carnival season of that year....
, he sang the role of Tamerlano.

Daniels has also branched out from the baroque roles usually associated with counter-tenors to include Oberon in Benjamin Britten

Benjamin Britten

Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, Order of Merit Order of the Companions of Honour was an England composer, conducting, viola and pianist....
's Midsummer Night's Dream at the Metropolitan Opera and as Orfeo in Gluck

Christoph Willibald Gluck

Christoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck was an opera composer of the early classical period. After many years at the Habsburg court at Vienna, Gluck brought about the practical reform of opera's dramaturgical practices that many intellectuals had been campaigning for over the years....
's Orfeo ed Euridice
Orfeo ed Euridice

Orfeo ed Euridice is an opera composed by Christoph Willibald Gluck based on Orpheus, set to a libretto by Ranieri de' Calzabigi. It belongs to the genre of the azione teatrale, meaning an opera on a mythological subject with choruses and dancing....
at the Royal Opera House

Royal Opera House

The Royal Opera House is an opera house and major performing arts venue in the London district of Covent Garden. The large building, often referred to as simply "Covent Garden", is the home of Royal Opera, London , Royal Ballet, London and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House....
, Covent Garden

Covent Garden

Covent Garden is a district in London, England, located on the easternmost parts of the City of Westminster and the southwest corner of the London Borough of Camden....
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Art songs

In addition to his operatic work, Daniels also gives regular recitals, for which he has developed a repertoire that includes nineteenth and twentieth century art songs not usually associated with countertenors, with works by such composers as Berlioz and Poulenc.

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(in parterre box
Parterre box

Parterre box is an ezine devoted to opera, about which it cultivates a campy, critical, strongly opinionated attitude with explicit "gay" overtones....
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