Tommaso Barea

A bass-baritone from the Veneto region, he began studying opera singing under the guidance of the Lieder soprano Argit Butzke; he is currently specialising with the American teacher Sherman Lowe.

In 2013 he won the First Prize at the XVI Giovan Battista Velluti International Competition and the Absolute Popular Jury Award.

He is a finalist in the O.M.E.G.A. International Competition in Florence and the Iris Adami Corradetti Competition. He was third prize winner at the Magda Oliviero opera competition and at the “Franco Federici” competition in Parma. Again in Parma, the following year, he won Second Prize at the Rinaldo Pelizzoni International Opera Competition, as well as the Popular Jury’s Appreciation Prize.

In Treviso, he won First Prize in the ‘Giovani Musicisti’ International Competition and First Prize in the ‘Premio Contea’ Competition. He graduated from the Faculty of ‘Letters and Philosophy’ at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice. In 2014, he won the ‘Concorso Comunità Europea’ in Spoleto – the youngest winner in recent years – and made his debut in the role of Schaunard in La bohème by G. Puccini. In the same year, he also won the ‘Premio Etta Limiti’ competition in Milan, where he also received the ‘Young Male Talent’ award.

In 2016, he won First Prize at the Concorso Internazionale di CantoLirico “Mauro Pagano” – Canneto sull’Oglio (MN) and the prestigious As.Li.Co competition for the role of Guglielmo in Così fan tutte. In the A.A. 2016/2017 he was a full student at the Accademia di Alto Perfezionamento dell’Opera in Florence, under the direction of Maestro Gianni Tangucci.

In January 2018 he won the Mercedes Viñas Prize, at the Tenor Viñas competition in Barcelona and his recent and future engagements include: Acquagranda at the Teatro LaFenice, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Don Carlo and La Traviata at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Rigoletto at the Filarmonico in Verona and at the Petruzzelli in Bari, La Bohème in a Japanese tour of the Sperimentale in Spoleto and at the Regio in Turin, La fanciulla del West at the San Carlo, Edipo re (Leoncavallo) at the Verdi in Pisa, Le songe d’une nuit d’été at the Wexford Festival, Il barbiere di Siviglia at the Massimo in Palermo and at the Opéra in Paris, La Bohème in Turin and at the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago, Carmen in Palermo, Macerata and as Escamillo in Valladolid, Ariadne auf Naxos in Bologna, La Cenerentola in Salerno, Don Giovanni at the Deutsche Oper Berlin in Macerata, Naples and at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Rinaldo in Venice Le nozze di Figaro in Sydney, Moscow and the Komische Oper in Berlin, Così fan tutte on tour with the Kammermorchester Basel in Paris and Hamburg.