BIOGRAPHY
Recently nominated for ‘Best Performance’ at the 2025 Off West End Awards, and praised for his “spinto power” and “graceful lyrical phrasing”, Italian tenor Davide Basso is regularly seen in the UK and Europe performing in opera, oratorio, and recital.
In staged opera productions, Davide has performed the role of Enrico (Maria de Rudenz, Donizetti) with Gothic Opera, Rodolfo (La Bohème, Puccini) and Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni, Mozart) with Regents Opera touring the UK and France, Rodolfo (La Bohème, Puccini) with Cardiff Opera and The Opera Makers (cover) for the 2024 Grimeborn Festival, Nemorino (L’Elisir d’Amore, Donizetti) and Macduff (Macbeth, Verdi) with Tealeaf Opera, Macduff (Macbeth, Verdi) with Uncovered Opera Company, Aeneas (Dido and Aeneas, Purcell) with Opera Asteria, as well as tenor chorus for the Philharmonia Chorus with the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Eamonn Dougan, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vasily Petrenko and Orchestre National de Lille conducted by Alexandre Bloch, Longhope Opera, Random Opera, Scherzo Ensemble and Opéra de Baugé.
As a tenor soloist he has performed in Handel’s Messiah with the Bath Philharmonia conducted by Gavin Carr and with the London Music Collective, and in Verdi’s Requiem, Mendelssohn’s Elijah and Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle with Barts Academic Festival Choir and Orchestra, and performances with the Docklands Sinfonia at Barbican Hall, Halifax Symphony Orchestra, and Italian Orchestras ‘Orchestra Ritmico Sinfonica Italiana’, ‘Silver Symphony Orchestra’ and ‘Casanova Venice Ensemble’.