Competitors passed through to the Preliminary

Dani Dávid

Dani Dávid

No. 7

Voice type: Bass

Country: Hungary

Date of birth: 25 October, 1989

Dávid Dani graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Singing from the Liszt Academy in 2012, received a master’s degree in the same field, and went on to earn another master’s in Teaching in 2015. He has also attended master classes held by such notable artists as Claudio Di Segni, Béla Perencz, Yevgeny Nesterenko, Kurt Rydl and Éva Marton.

In 2015, he performed the roles of the Speaker, the Old Priest and the Second Armored Man in the Liszt Academy’s production of The Magic Flute. After his university years, he performed as a bass soloist in concerts at the Liszt Academy, Vigadó Concert Hall and Matthias Church in Budapest and at the Gala Concert of the Miskolc Opera Festival, as well as in Switzerland, Austria and Germany.

He has sung opera at the Miskolc National Theatre, where he played the role of Il Commendatore in Mozart’s Don Giovanni and Sparafucile in Rigoletto.

At the MÜPA in Budapest, he appeared as Sarastro in Mozart’s The Magic Flute, directed by Attila Toronykői, and as Ramroddy Tóbiás in King Pomade’s New Clothes by György Ránki. In a joint production of the Szeged National Theatre and MuTh Theater Wien, he played the Colonel in Donizetti’s Il giovedì grasso at the Hungarian Opera. At the Szeged Open-Air Festival, he sang the role of Count Horn (Tom) in Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera. At the National Theatre of Pécs, he played Colline in La bohème, directed by Yvette Bozsik, which premiered in January 2022, and he will appear at the Eiffel Art Studios as the Priest/Harašta in Janáček’s opera The Cunning Little Vixen.

Competition Repertoire

Preliminary

Liszt: Ein Fichtenbaum steht einsam

Mozart: O Isis und Osiris – Sarastro’s aria from Die Zauberflöte

Rimsky-Korsakov: Zabylasya - Sobakin’s aria from The Tsar’s Bride

Semi-final

Verdi: A te l’estremo addio... Il lacerato spirito – Fiesco’s recitative and aria from Simon Boccanegra

Borodin: Zdorov li, knyaz? – Konchak’s aria from Prince Igor

Final

Beethoven: Hat man nicht auch Gold beineben – Roccoʼs aria from Fidelio

Tchaikovsky: Lyubvi vsye vozrasti pokorni – Gremin’s aria from Eugene Onegin

Ponchielli: Sì, morir ella de’!... Ombre di mia prosapia – Alvise’s recitative and aria from La Gioconda