David Adam Moore maintains a prolific international career as a performer, director, and digital media artist. As a leading baritone, Moore has garnered critical acclaim worldwide for his ability to breathe life into characters with a rare blend of power and vulnerability. He performs regularly with the world’s most important opera houses and orchestras, including the Metropolitan Opera, Covent Garden, Teatro alla Scala, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Carnegie Hall, the Salzburg Festival, Grand Théatre du Généve, Théâtre du Châtelet, and the BBC Symphony, with broadcast and recording credits including the BBC, Arte TV, PBS, NPR, Radio France, RAI, Innova, Erato, New Amsterdam, and ORF. His diverse repertoire of over 60 principal roles includes classic characters such as Don Giovanni and Eugene Onegin, epic song cycles including Schubert’s Winterreise and Brahms’ Die Schöne Magelone, and contemporary figures such as Britten’s Billy Budd, Joseph DeRocher in Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking, Stanley Kowalski in Andre Previn’s A Streetcar Named Desire, and Prior Walter in Peter Eötvös’ Angels in America. Moore is a celebrated interpreter of contemporary music, and has created roles in world premieres for some of today’s most important composers, including Thomas Adès, Peter Eötvös, Mary Kouyoumdjian, John Eaton, and David T. Little.
Current season highlights include three world premieres: Abbott Cuno in Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Hildegard at L.A. Opera and NYC’s Prototype Festival; Taming the Lightning, an immersive electroacoustic cantata for baritone and sonified live plant with words and music by Moore, at University of California, Davis, and Tom in Mary Kouyoumdjian and Royce Vavrek’s Adoration at the Prototype Festival and L.A. Opera. Other notable appearances include Moore’s staged, multimedia production of Schubert’s Winterreise at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Atlanta Opera, Portland Opera, National Sawdust NYC, Des Moines Metro Opera, and Anchorage Opera; Joseph DeRocher in Dead Man Walking with Lyric Opera of Kansas City and Des Moines Metro Opera, Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire with Virginia Opera; Prior Walter in Peter Eötvös’ Angels in America with MüPA Budapest, National Opera Wroclaw (Poland), and Fort Worth Opera; and Eugene Onegin with the Atlanta Opera and Arizona Opera. Moore and his artistic partner, director/designer Vita Tzykun, were recently named to the biennial XLIST: World’s 100 Most Creative Visionaries in Experiential Art & Design by the experiential industry hub, XP Land. Together, they are founders and Artistic Directors of the NYC-based transmedia collective, GLMMR. His work in composition, stage direction, stage design, digital media design, and installation/performance art has been presented by the Guggenheim Museum (with Holly Herndon), Lyric Opera of Chicago, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, San Diego Opera, Atlanta Opera, New Amsterdam Records, and National Sawdust. His projection design work has been featured in Lighting and Sound America Magazine, and his award-winning photography has been published by the Frankfurter Allgemeine and Boosey & Hawkes Music. A protégé of the influential voice pedagogue and author, Richard Miller (Structure of Singing, Training Tenor Voices), Moore served as Miller’s Principal Research Assistant at the Otto B. Schoepfle Vocal Arts Center at Oberlin Conservatory, where was honored as a McNair Scholar and National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences grant recipient. Moore currently serves on the faculty of the National Theater Institute, where he teaches Transdisciplinary Storytelling and Voice, in addition to serving as Granada Artist-in-Residence and Visiting Professor at University of California – Davis. He has given lectures and masterclasses at Oberlin Conservatory, Mannes School of Music, University of Tel Aviv, Rice University Shepherd School of Music, San Diego State University, University of Texas, and Carnegie Hall’s Weill School of Music. He has served on the advisory boards of San Diego Opera’s Opera Hack and Austin Opera’s Innovation Council in collaboration with other thought leaders and technologists from major corporations and cultural institutions to find new paths forward from the intersection of historical arts and emerging technology. David Adam Moore’s Website
Photo Credit: Vita Tzykun
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