Nicholas Tamagna
New York, NY
Classical / Baroque
Bio
NICHOLAS TAMAGNA, New York-based countertenor, is the first winner of the Nico Castel International Mastersinger Competition (2011) and the Arkadi Foundation Opera Idol Competition (2011), as well as a Semi-Finalist (2011) in the first ever countertenor competition, the Gianni Bergamo Classic Music Award for Countertenors in Lugano, Switzerland. He recently was described as a “sensitive countertenor soloist” by the New York Times in his Lincoln Center Debut at Avery Fischer Hall, in the Gooss...
Press
“Nicholas Tamagna, a tall, slim countertenor with a heavyweight voice up to an easy, ringing high A, made an effectively seething, sneering and, later, enchained Farnace. Black leather jeans and a sleeveless black vest clued us to his wicked character; he scowled and prowled a lot, too. He sang all evening with seamless power and beauty with some especially fine passagework.”
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