David Bižić

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

David Bizic.

Education and early career

Bizic was born in Belgrade, Serbia. He studied archaeology but at the same time he pursued vocal singing education and in 2000 he started studying voice at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance in Jerusalem with Bibiana Goldenthal. He later continued his education with International Vocal Arts Institute (IVAI)[1] and apprenticed with the Israeli Opera YAP and Paris National Opera - Atelier Lyrique program. 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.

Career

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

As an interpreter of Mozart roles, most notably Don Giovanni, Leporello,[2][3][4][5][6][7] Almaviva and Figaro,[8] he has performed in Paris Opera,[9] Wiener Staatsoper, Los Angeles Opera, Teatro Real, Bolshoi Theatre, Bordeaux, Geneve, Ravinia Festival, Valencia, Toulouse, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Montpellier, Rennes, Rouen, Aix en Provence, Nantes and Strasbourg.

Other career highlights include his Metropolitan Opera[10] debut as Albert in Werther, Albert in Royal Opera House,[11] debut in Liceu as Puccini’s Lescaut, Marcello and Sharpless in Metropolitan Opera, Guglielmo in Paris Opera, Oneguine in Limoges, Metz and Tel Aviv, Enrico in Toulon Opera, Zurga in Bordeaux, Escamillo [12] in Tel Aviv and Stockholm Opera and High Priest of Dagon[13] (Samson et Dalila) in Royal Swedish Opera

Awards

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

Recordings

References
  1. Maxim Reider (7 August 2011). "A workshop in progress". Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 19 December 2012. "Many Israeli singers who started at the workshop, such as Hadar Halevi, Sharon Rostorf and David Bizic and conductor Dan Ettinger now have successful international careers.”
  2. Richard S. Ginell (24 September 2012). "Review: L.A. Opera's 'Don Giovanni' upholds tradition expertly". Los Angeles Times. Serbian bass David Bizic made an impressive U.S. debut as an ingratiatingly comic Leporello, masterfully pointing out the words in a perfectly paced Catalog Aria.
  3. David Gregson (30 September 2012). "Los Angeles Opera presents a well-sung, intelligently staged 'Don Giovanni'". Retrieved 9 December 2012. The world abounds in wonderful Leporellos, but I would count Serbian bass-baritone David Bizic among the best. He brought a special lightness of touch to the part, and his body movements had a unique dance-like quality with which he seemed to be having a great deal of fun. He must make an interesting and original Don Giovanni, a role he will most certainly be singing soon if he hasn’t already.
  4. Estelle Gilson (9 October 2012). "Don Giovanni, LA Opera". Bass-baritone, David Bizic, making his American and Los Angeles debuts as Leporello, was a perfect partner. The two have played these roles opposite each other and it shows.
  5. "Ildebrando D'Arcangelo's Roguish Libertine, James Conlon's Impressive Conducting, in Insightful "Don Giovanni" – Los Angeles Opera, 22 September 2012". 23 September 2012. Retrieved 9 December 2012. In an evening of strong characterizations, Bizic’s Leporello in many ways seemed the most grounded there... Tall, possessing sturdy vocal skills and comic timing, Bizic will surely continue to interest opera managements casting this frequently performed opera.
  6. Ed Rampell (11 October 2012). "Don Giovanni Opera Review: Wolfgang's "p***y* riot". Archived from the original on 4 November 2012. Retrieved 9 December 2012. The Don’s not so faithful servant Leporello is performed with great comic panache by Belgrade bass David Bizic who steals scenes like a clownish kleptomaniac in an auspicious American debut[...]Bizic’s comical Leporello — reduced to the social status of a leper by the madcap lechery of his out of control patron, who blithely, chronically places his long-suffering servant in mortal danger — puts the buffoon into opera buffa.
  7. Juliet Schoen (11 October 2012). "Opera Review: "Don Giovanni" tackles labors of love". The Malibu Times. Retrieved 9 December 2012. A most important role is played by the don’s servant, Leporello, famous for his “catalog” aria in which he recites the numbers of his master’s conquests. David Bizic is terrific in the role, making the most of the humorous aspects, but with an undercurrent of sadness at his lowly station.
  8. José Mª Irurzun (1 July 2012). "Crates and Brides: Le Nozze di Laffargue". Figaro was played by young bass-baritone David Bizic, who showed a remarkable voice, attractive and well suited for the demands of the character.
  9. Opera National de Paris MemOpera database, Bizic David
  10. Metropolitan Opera, Bizic, David (Baritone) performance record on the MetOpera Database
  11. Royal Opera House Bizic, David Biography
  12. Göran Forsling (12 October 2011). "Sliced but Sizzling Carmen in Stockholm". David Bizic ... was possibly the best Escamillo I have ever seen...
  13. Göran Forsling (13 September 2009). "Saint-Saëns, Samson et Dalila at the Royal Stockholm Opera:". The most sensational member of the cast how ever was Belgrade born but today resident in Israel David Bizic as the High Priest of Dagon. Here was a fairly young bass-baritone with a superb voice, voluminous, wide-ranging and fully equalized from bottom to top. The role is somewhat one-dimensional but he managed to invest it with a great deal of subtlety as well. He seems to be cut out for great things.
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