Michael Davidson - Te Deum from Tosca

My dad sings the Te Deum from Puccini's Tosca. The pics are from Parsifal, Nabucco, Freischuetz, Otello, Andrea Chenier and of Sant Andrea della Valle.

Resume of Michael Davidson, baritone

Born in Long Beach, California, Michael Davidson studied voice with the Bolshoi's Verdi baritone Vladimir Dubinsky (a student of Antonio Cotogni's), while Hugo Strelitzer and Herbert Weisskopf were his coaches. Michael gave his European debut at the Concertgebouw presenting a variety of Verdi arias, later he returned there to sing the title-roles in Leoncavallo's Edipo Re (a role concipated for Titta Ruffo) and Dallapiccola's Il Prigionero. Further engagements include the Royal Opera Stockholm, National Theater Mannheim, Royal Opera Antwerp, Vancouver Opera, the Staatsopern in Vienna, Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, Stuttgart and the Gran Teatro de Liceu. Additionally the operas in Cologne, Karlsruhe, Portland, Hannover, Wuppertal, Basel, Frankfurt, Nürnberg, Dortmund and the Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf-Duisburg.
Among his stage-partners have been Luciano Pavarotti (Rigoletto), Mirella Freni (La Boheme), Raina Kabaivanska (Madama Butterfly), Lucia Popp (Der Rosenkavalier), Eva Marton (Tosca), Montserrat Caballe (Aida), Martina Arroyo (Aida), Tatjana Troyanos (Carmen), Nadine Connor (La Traviata), Maria Chiara (Otello), Anton Dermota (Palestrina), Ileana Cotrubas (Rosenkavalier), Fiorenza Cossotto (Il Trovatore), Agnes Baltsa (Rosenkavalier), Diana Damrau (Hänsel und Gretel, Rigoletto, Der Freischütz) and Waltraud Meier (Cardillac, Carmen, Il Trovatore, Der Rosenkavalier, Rigoletto). Michael Davidson has appeared in concerts with Mario del Monaco, Erika Köth and Renee Kollo and with such conductors as Giuseppe Patane, Alberto Erede, Kees Bakels, Hans Wallat, Horst Stein, Donald Runnicles and Nello Santi. Mr. Davidson also performed the King in Die Kluge under the direction of the composer Carl Orff. For his artistic accomplishments he has been awarded the title of Kammersänger. Michael Davidson retired from the stage in 1999 as Tonio (I Pagliacci), over 40 years after his debut. His son Robert is now an aspiring young baritone.

Throughout his career Mr. Davidson's repertoire has had a particular focus on the works of Giuseppe Verdi, singing the lead baritone roles in Otello, Un Ballo in Maschera, La Forza del Destino, Il Trovatore, Luisa Miller, La Traviata, Falstaff, Aida, Attila, Don Carlo and I Masnadieri and the title-roles of Rigoletto, Macbeth, Simon Boccanegra, and Nabucco.

He however also frequently portrayed such roles as the four demons (Les Contes D'Hoffmann), Scarpia (Tosca), Michele (Il Tabarro), Rance (La Fanciulla del West), Marcello (La Boheme), Enrico (Lucia di Lammermoor), Tonio (I Pagliacci), Alfio (Cavalleria Rusticana), Barnaba (La Gioconda), Escamillo (Carmen), Amfortas (Parsifal), Wolfram (Tannhäuser), Faninal (Der Rosenkavalier), the High Priest of Dagon (Samson e Dalilah), Valentin (Faust), Dunois (Joan of Arc), Gerard (Andrea Chenier), Sebastiano (Tiefland), the count in Capriccio as well as the title-roles in Gianni Schicci, Edipo Re, Eugene Onegin, Guglielmo Tell and Cardillac.

To purchase a complete recording of Edipo Re live from the Concertgebouw Amsterdam please follow this link:
http://www.opera-club.net/release.asp?rel=75

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• Baritone

[vbbaryton]

superbe, peut-on trouver des enregistrements dans le commerce et plus d'informations sur ce magnifique baryton?

[primobaritono]

I'm very glad you enjoyed it ! :) I'm sorry but I do not speak French, however I believe you asked about commercial recordings of my father ? Unfortunately all I have are live recordings. If you're curious about any more information regarding my dad, feel free to ask. :)

[HRHSirJohnSteed]

Thank you for both posting and sharing this fine interpretation of Puccini's Tosca. Much appreciated.

[rupepill]

No wonder, with this inspiring paternal role model, that you are an enthusiastic and dedicated vocal student - a worthy son of a worthy father.

[Power1960]

Bravoooooooooooooooo,

I'm so happy for you and your father..

[jelyse07]

Bravo :D

Thank you for posting this primobaritono.

[pearlmuth3]

Just was blown away and I prefer live anyhow. I met Jussi Bjorling's son Rolf after a concert he gave in Chicago back in 1964 and I spoke to him afterwards and he had this problem of course of the constant comparison to his famous dad he had a similiar sound in the middle that was definitely genetic but the top was not nearly as good, yet he had a very fine voice at that time, then in Sweden later he sang roles not even his father would sing live, Calaf etc. so it ended he was a nice fellow

[canzonettasullaria]

What a thrilling performance!

[shalabal]

Great!!!