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24 de abril, 2025
| Dave Monaco debuts in Nice in one of his signature roles: Count Almaviva in Il Barbiere di Siviglia |
| Opéra Nice Côte d’Azur | 2 to 8 May |

| Dave Monaco © Riccardo Sammartini |
| 🇬🇧 Dave Monaco is not yet thirty but has already been hailed as a “tenor with exquisite natural vocality but impetuous elegance”. He is one of the most talented singers of the Belcanto repertoire, particularly valued for his interpretations of Rossini’s work. As a result, many of his 2025 engagements feature Rossini operas, starting with a brand-new production of Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Opéra Nice Côte d’Azur directed by Benoît Benichou and conducted by Lucie Leguay. Dave will also make his house debut with this production, taking the stage on 2, 4, 6 and 8 May. «I made my principal debut as Count Almaviva in 2018. I came back to the role in 2023 and since then it’s given me great satisfaction and will continue to do so, with my debut at Teatro La Fenice last February and the opportunity to perform for the first time in another continent, in Toronto next year. So it has a permanent place in my repertoire and, with this new production in Nice (a delightful theatre where I’m making my house debut!), I’ll have performed it over twenty times. It’s an unusual role: from a vocal perspective, it has a medium tessitura and coloraturas which are closer to Rossini’s serious operas than his comic ones. In fact, it was composed for Garcia, a baritenor. From a theatrical perspective too, the Count is an ambiguous character. Behind his apparent levity lies an elegance that has to be revealed. If ‘Ecco ridente in cielo’ is a serenade, almost music within the music, it’s with ‘Cessa di più resistere’ that the Count truly emerges as a character. Rossini gives us the opportunity to transform an initially comic character into a serious figure, worthy of the style of one of Spain’s great. Depending on whether or not this aria is performed, the Count changes totally in nature. In this staging by Benoît Bénichou, the reference is clear: a Count more like the one in Le Nozze di Figaro: noble, clear-headed, open-eyed. And the final aria is there. This, for me, is the perfect balance between comic and serious Rossini. It’s a role full of surprises, thanks to the many details that come to light each time.» – said the tenor from Nice |

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