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Il Tenore

Decca Classics announces the eagerly anticipated second album of British-Italian tenor Freddie De Tommaso, entitled Il Tenore released on 10th June. Featuring some of the most iconic arias and duets ever written for the operatic voice, it follows his chart-topping 2021 debut Passione and a year in which the singer has taken Europe’s opera houses by storm. 

Declared one of The Observer’s ‘Faces to watch in 2022’, De Tommaso hit the headlines in December when he made his Royal Opera House role debut as Cavaradossi in Tosca in exceptional circumstances. Not due to make his first appearance until a week later, De Tommaso was called in midway through a performance when Bryan Hymel fell ill. De Tommaso’s performance brought the house down as he became not only the first British tenor to sing the role at the historic venue in 60 years but also the youngest ever. What was called a “historic moment” by The Times was followed by glowing reviews from the critics, with The Mail on Sunday writing, “A star is born. I don’t think anyone who joined in the ovation for 28-year-old Freddie De Tommaso from Tunbridge Wells… could be in any doubt that we were in at the birth of a great career.” Listeners can relive that night with De Tommaso’s recordings of “Recondita armonia”, “E lucevan le stelle” and the love duet “Mario, Mario, Mario!” (here with Lise Davidsen) on this album.
 

Freddie De Tommaso:

Passione

Decca Classics announces the signing and forthcoming debut album of 27-year-old British-Italian tenor Freddie De Tommaso, arguably the most exciting lyrico spinto tenor to emerge in over a decade. His album ‘Passione’, pays homage to his great hero Franco Corelli, born a century ago in Ancona, Italy on 8th April 1921. The album will be released on 9th April 2021.
 
Freddie De Tommaso is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music and won First Prize, the Plácido Domingo Tenor Prize and the Verdi Prize at the 2018 Francisco Viñas International Singing Competition in Barcelona. He was a member of the Young Singer Academy at the Salzburg Festival in 2018 and went on to join the studio of the Bayerische Staatsoper for the 18/19 season. 
 
De Tommaso performed at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in December 2019 as Cassio in Verdi’s Otello and headlined the re-opening of the Wiener Staatsoper in September 2020 as Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly. The FT wrote, “Freddie De Tommaso sang so vividly that Cassio for once became a character who gets noticed” and BR Klassik hailed him a “bombshell voice”.