Nicholas Tamagna

Nicholas Tamagna has risen meteorically in recent years and is now one of the world’s most fascinating alto singers. Highlights of recent seasons have undoubtedly included the participation as Ermano in the multi-award winning CD recording Gismondo, re di Polonia (opera by Vinci) on the Parnassus label and extensive concert touring, his Met debut in March 2020 as Narciso in Handel’s Agrippina, 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.

Nicholas Tamagna’s engagements have taken him to other major opera houses, concert halls and festivals around the world, including Carnegie Hall, the Opéra Royal de Versailles, the Opéra de Vichy, the Potsdam Music Festival, the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, the Musiktheater an der Wien, the US Spoleto Festival and Opera Omaha. There he has performed with the Melbourne Consort, Malandain Ballet Biarritz, Operamission, One World Symphony, Opera Omnia and many others. As part of the early music ensemble, Le Poème Harmonique, he has toured France several times with different operas.

In recent years he has sung Pane in Cavalli’s La Calisto, Farnace in Mozart’s Mitridate, Prince Orlofsky in Strauss’ Die Fledermaus, and the title role in Gluck’s Orpheus and in Hasse’s Siroe, among others. Nicholas Tamagna can be seen on DVD recording in the title role of Glass’ Akhnaten (Orange Mountain Music), the Spirit in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas (Outhère Music), and with the Canadian early music ensemble ¡Sacabuche! in performances of unpublished works of the Italian Baroque (ATMA Classique). He was the first prize winner of the inaugural Nico Castel International Mastersinger Competition. In 2011 he won the 2nd Jury Prize of the Arkadi Foundation Opera Competition.