Davide Basso

Recently nominated for ‘Best Performance in an Opera’ at the 2025 Off West End Awards, and praised for his “tonal beauty and rock-solid technique” in Opera Magazine, Italian tenor Davide Basso is regularly seen in the UK and Europe performing in opera, oratorio, and recital. Alongside his stage operatic career, he has the pleasure of providing musical entertainment for a variety of clients, including runways for major fashion houses, gala performances and fundraising soirées, political events, as well as private functions and celebrations, including for members of the royal family. In staged opera productions, Davide has performed Enrico (Maria de Rudenz, Donizetti) with Gothic Opera, Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni, Mozart) with Regents Opera, Rodolfo (La Bohème, Puccini) with Cardiff Opera and The Opera Makers (cover) for the 2024 Grimeborn Festival, Macduff (Macbeth, Verdi) with Uncovered Opera Company and Tealeaf Opera, Nemorino (L’Elisir d’Amore, Donizetti) with Tealeaf Opera, Aeneas (Dido and Aeneas, Purcell) with Opera Asteria. In concert, other roles include Narraboth/Erste Jude (Salome, R. Strauss), Junger Diener (Elektra, R. Strauss), Maître de cérémonies (L’Amour de Trois Oranges, Prokofiev). Upcoming engagements include performing the role of Rodolfo in Bohème with Regents Opera, touring the UK and France. As a tenor soloist he has performed in Handel's Messiah with the Bath Philharmonia conducted by Gavin Carr and with the London Music Collective, and in Verdi's Requiem, Mendelssohn's Elijah and Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle with Barts Academic Festival Choir and Orchestra. He has also worked as a soloist with the Dockland Sinfonia at Barbican Hall, Halifax Symphony Orchestra, and Italian Orchestras Orchestra Ritmico Sinfonica Italiana, Silver Symphony Orchestra and Casanova Venice Ensemble. Before re-training in classical singing, Davide was a successful jazz vocalist, and performed as a soloist and in ensembles in Italy, New York and at venues in the UK including: Barbican Hall, Royal Albert Hall, Cadogan Hall, Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, and for London Fashion Week and London Jazz Festival. He has performed and toured extensively in Italy, Switzerland, and Turkey, as well as regularly appearing on Italian television. His repertoire includes opera arias, art songs and musical theatre, in English, Italian, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Russian, but special requests in any other language are welcome!