Nicholas Tamagna

Nicholas Tamagna is an American-Italian countertenor, at home in Baroque opera, contemporary music and art song. Praised by The New York Times for his "full, rounded tone," he has sung at the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, the Theater an der Wien, the Wiener Staatsoper, Carnegie Hall, the Israeli Opera, the Linbury Theatre at the Royal Opera House, and the Händel-Festspiele in Göttingen, Halle and Karlsruhe. His roles include Giulio Cesare, Tolomeo, Rinaldo, Polinesso and Ruggiero, and Narciso in Agrippina for his Met debut. In new music he is known for the Refugee in Jonathan Dove's Flight. This season: Altissimo at the Staatstheater Meiningen, Guido in a new Flavio directed by Max Emanuel Cenčić in Meiningen, Tolomeo in Giulio Cesare and Stradella in La Serenata dei delitti at the Warsaw Chamber Opera, and Live on Tape at Musikhuset Aarhus. On record: with Le Poème Harmonique (Outhere), with ¡Sacabuche! (ATMA Classique), and on award-winning albums for Parnassus Arts Productions and Bright Shiny Things, among them Vinci's Gismondo, re di Polonia. Also Sultans of the Opera and Donne all'Opera. He is co-founder and artistic director of Forum neue Kunst in Oldenburg, and teaches voice at tamagnavocalstudio.com. nicholastamagna.com · Represented by Parnassus Arts Productions · Photos: Dorota Szczepańska