David Bižić

David Bižić (Serbian Cyrillic: Давид Бижић; born 25 November 1975) is an operatic baritone. He was born in Belgrade, Serbia.

David Bižić.

Early life

Bižić was born in Belgrade, Serbia. He studied archaeology.[1] before he pursued vocal arts. His father was a physical chemist and his mother is a psychologist.

His love for opera, he states, started at early age being exposed to opera records at home,[2] especially The Three Tenors concerts. Two of the four main artists from those recordings, Zubin Mehta and by Placido Domingo conducted him later in the career.[3]

"I remember feeling really connected to Domingo, Pavarotti, the famous tenors. I was seven or eight years old when I listened to them sing arias, and although I didn’t know what they were singing about, I could feel the emotion and passion, and that spoke so much to me. I also did conducting at home and became passionate about expressing myself through music. But I had no idea that I would become an opera singer. It was never on my list of possible professions."[1]

Education and early career

In 2000 at the age of 24 he started studying voice at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance with Bibiana Goldenthal.[1] He later continued his education with International Vocal Arts Institute (IVAI)[4] and apprenticed with the Israeli Opera YAP[5] and Paris National Opera – Atelier Lyrique program.[6]

He has participated in numerous master classes and concerts in France, Israel, New York and Japan working with José van Dam, Teresa Berganza and Gabriel Bacquier among others.

Singing career

After his musical training in Tel Aviv, Paris and New York, Bizic's principal role debut was in the title role of Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro in Nantes, in 2006. During that same time, he was awarded the AROP Prix lyrique by the Paris National Opera, and has won the second prize of Operalia world opera competition.[7]

Bižić has since appeared in major opera houses and festivals across Europe and America.

Bižić's career first garnered international attention in the role of Masetto in two critically acclaimed productions of Don Giovanni[8] by Michael Haneke in Paris opera[9] and Dmitry Tcherniakov in Aix-en-Provence Festival.[10] He later revived both of those productions, now in the role of Leporello.[8]

In 2014 Bižić made his debut[11] at the Metropolitan Opera in New York singing Albert in Werther alongside Jonas Kaufmann and Sophie Koch and came back the following season to sing Marcello (La Bohème). He has been back to the Metopera every season after that having sung more than 50 shows so far.[1][12]

Opera

As an interpreter of Mozart roles, most notably Don Giovanni, Leporello and Masetto in Don Giovanni, Almaviva and Figaro in The Marriage of Figaro, Guglielmo and Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte, Bižić has performed in Paris Opera,[8] Wiener Staatsoper, Los Angeles Opera,[3] Teatro Real, Bolshoi Theatre, Bordeaux, Geneve, Ravinia Festival, Valencia, Toulouse, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Maribor, Montpellier, Rennes, Saint Etienne, Rouen, Aix en Provence, Dijon, Nantes and Strasbourg.

Other career highlights include his Metropolitan Opera debut as Albert in Werther,[12] Albert and Schaunard in Royal Opera House, debut in Teatro Liceo as Puccini's Manon Lescaut, Marcello and Sharpless in the Metropolitan Opera,[12] title role of Eugene Onegin in Limoges, Metz and Tel Aviv, Lucia di Lammermoor's Enrico in Toulon Opera, Zurga in Bizet's Les pêcheurs de perles in Bordeaux and Dortmund, Escamillo (Carmen) in Tel Aviv, Belgrade, Stockholm, Dijon and Macerata Opera, and High Priest of Dagon (Samson et Dalila) in Royal Swedish Opera.

Concerts

In opera concert performances Bizic has sung Sharples in Puccini's Madama Butterfly with the Hallé Orchestra conducted by Sir Mark Elder.[13]

He has also performed Leporello in Mozart's Don Giovanni in Ravinia Festival[2] with Chicago Symphony Orchestra under James Conlon, La Vida Breve with the Orchestre de Paris conducted by Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, and Zurga from Bizet's Les Pecheurs des Perles with WDR Rundfunkorchester Köln under Friedrich Haider.

His other concert appearances include Beethoven's 9th Symphony with the Orchestre de Montpellier and the Orchestre de Bordeaux under Marc Minkowski, Zeisl's Requiem Ebraico with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra under Zubin Mehta, Fauré's Requiem with the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris / Accentus Choir for the Saint Denis Festival conducted by Laurence Equilbey and Brahms' Ein deutsches Requiem with the Serbian Radio TV Symphony Orchestra.[5]

Personal life

Bižić lives in Bordeaux, France. He is married and has two children.[2] Bižić can also play piano and didjeridoo.[1] He is a brother of Dr. Mina Bizic

Awards

Bižić is a winner of the second prize from Operalia, The World Opera Competition[7] in 2007 and Paris Opera AROP Prix Lyriques in 2005.

Recordings

References

Notes

  1. Necula, Maria-Cristina (24 June 2020). "Baritone David Bizic on His Bold and Passionate Journey to the Met". Woman Around Town. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
  2. Radović, Branka (18 August 2014). "Iz Zemuna do najvećih svetskih operskih kuća". Politika (in Serbian). Retrieved 16 June 2012.
  3. Richard S. Ginell (24 September 2012). "Review: L.A. Opera's 'Don Giovanni' upholds tradition expertly". Los Angeles Times.
  4. "IVAI Alumni". Retrieved 16 June 2022.
  5. "IMG Artists". Retrieved 16 June 2022.
  6. Ciavarini Azzi, Lorenzo (29 March 2014). "Un "Don Giovanni" frais et énergique par l'Atelier lyrique de l'Opéra de Paris". franceinfo:culture (in French). Retrieved 16 June 2022.
  7. "OPERALIA Winners 2007" Retrieved 16 June 2022
  8. “’’David Bizic‘’” on MémOpéra.fr Retrieved 16 June 2022
  9. Cieutat, Rouyer 2017: 259
  10. Will 2022: 276
  11. Tommasini, Anthony (19 February 2014). "Things End Badly for a Poet, but Quite Well for the Tenor". The New York Times. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
  12. Metropolitan Opera, Bizic, David (Baritone) performance record on the MetOpera Database
  13. Hewett, Ivan (29 May 2022). "Hallé Orchestra: Madama Butterfly, review: emotional intensity that stings like a bee". The Telegraph. Retrieved 16 June 2022.

Sources

  • Cieutat, Michel; Rouyer, Philippe (6 September 2017). Haneke par Haneke (in French). Stock. ISBN 9782234084063.
  • Will, Richard (13 June 2022). "Don Giovanni" Captured. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226815428.
  • L'Opéra vu par Alain Duault & Colette Masson, Hugo & Cie, 2010 ISBN 978-2755606386
  • La Bohème, Puccini : livret bilingue, guide d'écoute, genèse et création, sources littéraires, profil des rôles, discographie, vidéographie , Premières loges, 2014 ISBN 978-2-84385-306-7
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