Unfortunatley, Andreas Scholl had to cancel his participation in BVA due to illness. But luckily he could step in: Countertenor Nicholas Tamagna joined our faculty!
Thank You, Nicholas, for the inspiring work with our young singers!
Here is his impressive biography:
Nicholas Tamagna has risen meteorically in recent years and is now one of the world’s most fascinating and in demand alto voices. Highlights of recent seasons have undoubtedly included the role of Polinesso in Handel’s Ariodante at Tel Aviv Opera, participation as Ermano in the multi-award winning CD recording Gismondo, re di Polonia (opera by Leonardo Vinci) on the Parnassus label and extensive concert touring, his Met debut in March 2020 as Narciso in Handel’s Agrippina alongside Joyce DiDonato, Harry Bicket, Kate Lindsey and Brenda Rae, whose performance was broadcast in cinemas worldwide; his Bayreuth Baroque debut as Timagene in Vinci’s Alessandro nell’Indie; and his spectacular interpretations of the Handel roles Ruggiero in Alcina at the Halle Handel Festival and Tolomeo in Giulio Cesare at the Göttingen Handel Festival and at the Netherlands Reisopera.
In the 2023/2024 season, the countertenor’s outstanding projects include the role of Refugee in a new production of The Flight at the Staatstheater Oldenburg, the title role of Orfeo in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice at Tel Aviv Opera, his San Francisco Opera debut as Armindo in Handel’s Partenope, Tolomeo in Handel’s Giulio Cesare at Warszawska Opera Kameralna, the role of Casimiro in Caldara’s Il Venceslao as a tour project and CD recording, and many more.
Nicholas recently triumphed in the title role of Giustino in the Legrenzi Opera of the same name at Pinchgut Opera in Sydney, Australia in May 2023, as Disinganno in Handel’s Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno at the Staatsoper Hannover from September 2020 to October 2021, as Ruggiero in Vivaldi’s Orlando Furioso from December 2019 to June 2022 at Tchaikovsky Hall Moscow, Salle Seine Bilancourt and Konzerthaus Dortmund, in his solo programme Die Liebe und der Wahnsinn at Schloßtheater Celle and as Silvio in Handel’s Il Pastor Fido in June 2019 at the Handel Festival Halle.
His engagements have taken him to other major opera houses, concert halls and festivals around the world, including Carnegie Hall, the Opéra Royal de Versailles and the Opéra de Vichy, the Handel Festival in Göttingen, the Potsdam Music Festival, the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, the Musiktheater an der Wien, the US Spoleto Festival, Opera Omaha and many more. As part of the early music ensemble, Le Poème Harmonique, he has toured France extensively in different projects.
Other roles include: Pane and Endimione in Cavalli’s La Calisto, Cesare and Tolomeo in Giulio Cesare, Farnace in Mozart’s Mitridate, Prince Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus, the Sorceress in Dido and Aeneas, the title role of Siroe in Hasse’s opera of the same name and Ruggiero in Alcina, among others.
