Nicholas Tamagna meteoric rise in recent years has made him one of the world’s most fascinating alto voices. Highlights of the last few seasons were undoubtedly his interpretation of Ermano in the award-winning CD recording of Gismondo, re di Polonia (Leonardo Vinci) on the Parnassus label and its extensive concert tour, his MET debut in March 2020 as Narciso in Handel’s Agrippina at the side of Joyce DiDonato, Harry Bicket, Kate Lindsey and Brenda Rae as well as the worldwide cinema broadcast of the performance and his spectacular interpretation of the Handel roles Ruggiero in Alcina and Silvio in Il Pastor Fido at the Handel Festival in Halle. In the 2020/2021 season some outstanding projects include the role of Disinganno in a new production of Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno at the Hanover State Opera (house debut), Hasse’s Cajo Fabrizio at the Theater an der Wien, where the artist will perform the role of Turrio, the Refugee in a new production of The Flight at the Staatstheater Oldenburg, and Ruggiero in a touring production of Handel’s Alcina. In 2017/18, Nicholas Tamagna appeared in a co-production with the Reisopera (in Enschede, Holland) and the Staatstheater Oldenburg (Germany), in the title role of Hasse’s Siroe, Re di Persia. At the Musikfestspiele Potsdam, Germany he also sang the role of Amore in L’Europa by Alessandro Melani at the Palace Sanssouci.
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