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David Adam Moore
David Adam Moore was recently lauded for performances of Guglielmo in Così fan tutte full of “enviable swagger coupled with a subtle musicality and big, handsome voice” (Seattle Post-Intelligencer). He repeats the role in the 2010-11 season with Palm Beach Opera and joins the Metropolitan Opera roster for the same time. He returns to Seattle Opera for Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia, sings Masetto in Don Giovanni with Roberto Abaddo conducting the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, and joins both David Robertson and the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra for Orff’s Carmina Burana and the Orchestra of Saint Luke’s for Lieberson’s King Gesar at the Rubin Museum of Art. He also creates the role of Vincent Van Gogh in Rands’ Vincent as a guest artist with Indiana University’s Opera Theatre. Last season, he he reprised his acclaimed performances of Maximilian in Candide in Hyogo and Tokyo, Japan, having previously sung the role at Teatro alla Scala and Théâtre du Châtelet. He also returned to the roles of Prior Walter in Peter Eötvös’ Angels in America with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by David Robertson at the Barbican, and Mercutio in Roméo et Juliette with San Diego Opera, Guglielmo in Così fan tutte with Arizona Opera, and Escamillo in Carmen in the inaugural season of the Lismore Music Festival in Ireland.
The Texas native leapt into international acclaim for his portrayal of the title role in Francesca Zambello’s production of Billy Budd with the New Israeli Opera in. Also with the company, he has sung Mercutio and Littore in David Alden’s production of L’incoronazione di Poppea as well as Ned Keene in Peter Grimes. He made his German debut at Staatsoper Hannover as Figaro in Il barbiere di siviglia that was followed by the title role of Don Giovanni, a role that he also sang at the Kiel Oper. Additionally, he sang the Count in Le nozze di Figaro and Carmina Burana at the Festival Lyrique-en-Mer in Belle-Ile, France.
A frequent presence at Seattle Opera, his previous roles with the company include Guglielmo in Così fan tutte and Jake Wallace in La fanciulla del West. He recently joined Pittsburgh Opera for the title role in Billy Budd, Fort Worth Opera for Prior Walter in Angels in America; Opera Pacific for Belcore in L’elisir d’amore, Tulsa Opera for the Pilot in The Little Prince, Annapolis Opera for Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia, and Dicapo Opera for Laurent in Thérèse Raquin. His other noted performances on American stages include his New York City Opera debut as Papageno in Die Zauberflöte; Mercutio in Roméo et Juliette with the Opera Theater of Saint Louis and Utah Opera; the Count in Le nozze di Figaro with Opera Grand Rapids; and Tarquinius in The Rape of Lucretia with the Opera Festival of New Jersey. With Gotham Chamber Opera, he sang the title roles of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas and Milhaud’s Les Malheurs d’Orphée.
The baritone made his Avery Fischer Hall debut with the American Symphony Orchestra in Schumann’s Manfred followed by performances of Don Carlos in Dargomizhsky’s The Stone Guest and Janacek's From the House of the Dead with the same orchestra. He has also appeared with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra as Jesus in Elgar’s The Apostles, Orquestra Real de Sevilla singing Mozart’s Mass in C minor and Vesperae Solemnae, Utah Symphony for Vaughan Williams’ Dona nobis pacem, and the Yakima Symphony in Brahms’ Ein Deutches Requiem. Other appearances include Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen with Cleveland Red Orchestra as well as with the Cincinnati Philharmonia Orchestra at the 1998 World Exposition in Lisbon.
A staunch advocate of contemporary music, Moore has premiered a number of works by the American composers Martin Hennessy and Stephen Louis Bayne, most notably, 9/11/01 at Guggenheim Art Museum. He performed Bertha by Ned Rorem; The Gold Standard by Scott Wheeler as part of the Kenneth Koch Tribute, which was co-sponsored by the New York Festival of Song; the world premiere of Hell, a new opera by Michael Webster and Eileen Myles; and the title role in Jonathan Eaton’s microtonal opera, Traveling With Gulliver with the New York New Music Ensemble in the work’s New York premiere. Also an accomplished composer, his recent work, Kronos, was featured in a performance by the Oxymoros Dance Ensemble.
A graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and the University of Cincinnati-College Conservatory of Music, Moore has received awards in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and was recognized recently in a cover feature by Arts Patron magazine as one of the ten most promising artists to emerge from the Northwest.
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