Davide Battiniello

(tenor)

EDUCATION AND WORK
Born in 1996, Italian tenor Davide Battiniello started his Voice studies at the Conservatorio di Musica San Pietro a Maiella, Naples, at the age of 17. He is currently studying under the guidance of Francesca Patané, Marco Chingari, Giuseppe Polese and Andrea Carnevale.

In 2015, he joined the Jubilate Deo Musical Association of Torre del Greco, with which he began an intense concert activity, performing a broad repertoire ranging from sacred to secular music. In December of the same year, he attended a masterclass in opera singing with Katia Ricciarelli and was also a finalist in the 9th International Opera Singing Competition “Città di Ravello.” 

In 2018, he won a competition for the role of Don Basilio in Mozart’s “Le nozze di Figaro” and debuted at the Etna Opera Festival, under the musical direction of A. Tarantino and staged by Simone Alaimo. At the prestigious Sala Scarlatti of the San Pietro a Majella Conservatory in Naples, he performed as a soloist in Rossini’s “Petite Messe Solennelle”. 

In 2021, he took part in a lyrical concert with orchestra at the Municipal Theater of Sarno (SA), performing a wide-ranging Italian operatic repertoire. In 2022, he successfully auditioned for the Puccini Academy at the Festival Puccini Torre del Lago, debuting the roles of Mandarin in “Turandot” and Crébillon in “La rondine”. 

In the 2023/24 season, Battiniello debuted in the role of Ainulfo in “Normanni a Salerno” by Temistocle Marzano, at the Di Costanzo-Mattiello Theater in Pompeii, conducted by Giuseppe Polese. In January, he joined the AsLiCo Tour, performing the role of Prince Calaf in “Turandot – Enigmi al Museo”, based on the homonyme opera by G. Puccini. This tour brought Davide to perform in several Italian theatres such as Teatro Regio di Parma, Teatro Sociale di Como, Teatro Grande di Brescia, Teatro Ponchielli di Cremona, Teatro Alighieri di Ravenna and Arena Sferisterio di Macerata, among others. In the same season, he won the role of Don José in Bizet’s “Carmen”, at the Cuore d’Oro Competition, awarded by Nicoletta Mantovani. 

REPERTOIRE
Alfredo (Verdi’s “La traviata”)
Cavaradossi (Puccini’s “Tosca”)
Pinkerton (Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly”)
Fritz (Mascagni’s “L’Amico Fritz”)