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Recently, international guest performances broughtDominic Barberi as guest singer to the Opéra Bastille Paris, where he was the FIRST SOLDIER in “Salome” and the ONE ARMED in Strauss‘ “Die Frau ohne Schatten”. He portrayed COLLATINUS in the “Rape of Lucretia” at the Opéra de Toulouse, GRAVIS and THEOLOGIAN in Busoni’s “Doktor Faust” at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino , the FIRST SOLDIER at the Lübeck Theatre and the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, COLLINE in “La Boheme” at the Lucerne Theatre. With the Essen Philharmonic Orchestra, the RIAS Chamber Orchestra Berlin and the Academy for Ancient Music he sang The Passion of Saint Matthew.
In the season 2021/22 he returned as ALIDORO in “La Cenerentola” to the Opéra de Montpellier. Before, he had already enjoyed success here in 2019 as BOTTOM in “Britten’s “A Midsummer Night's Dream”. He sang in Prokofiev's “The Nose” at the Komische Oper Berlin, was ANGELOTTI in “Tosca” at the Leipzig Opera and BOTTOM in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” at the Opéra de Lille.
From 2018 to 2020 Dominic Barberi was a member of the Mannheim National Theatre ensemble, where he portrayed ALIDORO, ANGELOTTI, TITUREL in “Parsifal”, HANS SCHWARZ in “Die Meistersinger”, DON FERNANDO in “Fidelio” and FIGARO in “Le nozze di Figaro” just to name a few.
From 2015 to 2018 the young bass singer was a member of the International Opera Studio at the State Opera Unter den Linden, supported with a scholarship of the Liz Mohn Foundation for Culture and Music. Here, he stood out in such roles as L’OSTE in “Manon Lescaut” , the SECOND ARMOURED in “Die Zauberflöte”, TOM in “Un ballo in maschera”, PIETRO in “Simone Boccanegra”, the SECOND KNIGHT OF THE GRAIL in “Parsifal”, the SECOND SOLDIER in “Salome”. His highlights at the Berlin State Opera include COLLINE in “La Bohème” and SARASTRO in “Die Zauberflöte”.
Born in England Dominic Barberi completed his studies with distinction at the Royal Conservatory of Scotland with Stephen Robertson. He took master classes with a.o. Francisco Araiza, Deborah Polaski, Dame Ann Murray, Olaf Bär, David Syrus, Brigitte Fassbaender and Sir Thomas Allen.
The young bass singer performed as a guest soloist in entire Great-Britain in numerous productions such as Rossini's “Petite Messe solemnelle”, Dvořák’s “Stabat Mater”, Michael Tippett’s “A Child of our time”, Haydn’s “Die Schöpfung”, Mendelssohn-Bartholdy’s “Elias” and Haendel’s “Messiah” in Copenhagen.
In 2014 he made his debut at the Opera North as Famigliari in „L’incoronazione di Poppea“. He was the second cast of SALVADOR in Manuel de Fallas »La vida breve« at the Opera North and BANCO in Giuseppe Verdi's „Macbeth“ at the Scottish Opera. Further roles include THESEUS in „A Midsummer Night's Dream“, the SPEAKER in „Die Zauberflöte“ and ANTINOO in „Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria“.
Im summer 2016 he debuted at the Bregenz Festival, where he portrayed COLAS in “Bastien und Bastienne” and the COMMENDATORE in “Don Giovanni”. In spring 2017 Dominic Barberi was ABIMELECH in “Samson et Dalilah” and FERRANDO in “Il Trovatore” at the Dessau Theatre. As ALVISE in Ponchielli’s “La Gioconda” he succeeded at the Innsbruck Theatre in the season 2017/18. In 2018 he sang ZUNIGA in “Carmen”, PUBLIO in Mozart’s “La Clemenza di Tito” and L’USCIERE in “La porta della legge” at the Braunschweig State Theatre. In 2020 he performed in “I Puritani” at the Opera in Oviedo and in summer 2021 he enjoyed great success as ALIDORO at the Festival Gut Immling.
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