Davide Basso

Italian tenor Davide Basso is regularly seen in London performing in opera, oratorio, and recital. In staged opera productions, Davide has performed Nemorino (L’Elisir d’Amore, Donizetti) with Tealeaf Opera, Macduff (Macbeth, Verdi) with Uncovered Opera Company, Aeneas (Dido and Aeneas, Purcell) with Opera Asteria, as well as tenor chorus for Regents Opera, Longhope Opera, Random Opera, and Opéra de Baugé. Upcoming productions include Rodolfo (La Bohème, Puccini) with Cardiff Opera, Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni, Mozart) and Goro (Madama Butterfly, Puccini) with Regents Opera, and Macduff with Tealeaf Opera. As an oratorio soloist he has performed in Handel's Messiah with St Cecilia Chorus and London Music Collective, in Mozart's Requiem with St John's Choir and Chamber Orchestra, and in Verdi's Requiem, Mendelssohn's Elijah and Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle with Barts Academic Festival Choir and Orchestra. Davide has performed with 'Dockland Sinfonia' at Barbican Hall, and Italian Orchestras 'Orchestra Ritmico Sinfonica Italiana', 'Silver Symphony Orchestra' and 'Casanova Venice Ensemble'. Recently he performed in recital with the Istante Collective for the Italian Sounds in London Festival 2022 supported by the Italian Institute of Culture. 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. Through the years he had the pleasure of providing the musical entertainment for a variety of clients, including runways for major fashion houses, gala performances and fundraising soirées, political events, as well as for private celebrations for members of the royal family. His repertoire includes opera arias, as well as songs and musical theatre, in English, Italian, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Russian, but special requests in any other language are welcome!