 The Belgian tenor Denzil Delaere graduated with highest honors in 2008 from the School of Art of Ghent, where he was taught piano and the art of singing with Philippe Wesemael and Sabine Haenebalcke. In 2013 he graduated with a Master’s degree at the Royal Conservatory of Ghent and combined consecutively post-graduates, at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel and the International Opera Academy (IOA) of Ghent.
Upcoming role debuts
Goro (Madama Butterfly) en Narraboth (Salome) both at Flanders Opera and Roberto (Le Villi, Puccini) at Operazuid Maastricht, a staged production, with 14 performances in main theatres across the Netherlands. Future engagements will take him to the opera houses of Geneva, Lyon and Paris (Châtelet) … more soon !
Recent appearances
as Antinoos in Hadrian, an opera by Rufus Wainwright (at deSingel Antwerp, Bozar Brussels and Tivoli Vredeburg Utrecht, alongside Brussels Philharmonic) ; Alfredo (La Traviata) at Summer Opera Festival Alden-Biesen ; as Wirt (Der Rosenkavalier, directed by Oscar-winner Christoph Waltz), as Haci Baba, le Mafieux (Voyage vers l’espoir, by Christian Jost) in the French premiere of his opera “Reise der Hoffnung”, as Giove in Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria (with Europa Galante under Fabio Bondi) all three at the Grand Théâtre of Geneva (the latter production being revived in concert version in main halls in Madrid and Barcelona) ... and last but not least as Aristide the principal tenor role in de world premiere of On purge bébé, the last opera by the Belgian composer Philippe Boesmans, commissioned by the ROH La Monnaie/De Munt.
In concert, upon invitation of Symfonieorkest Vlaanderen, Denzil embarked for a large tour with Mozart’s Requiem, including concerts in Belgium, the Netherlands, France and the UK.
Noteworthy are his debut as Gonzalve in Ravel's L’heure espagnole at Flanders Opera and at the Nederlandse reisopera Enschede as Rodolfo in a pocket version of La Bohème and as Hans in Smetana’s The Bartered Bride in a complete new dutch translation of the work.
Career overview
It all started as an ensemble member of the Luzern Opera house where Denzil made his debut as Tamino (Die Zauberflöte) and Roberto (Maria Stuarda) and deepened the lyric tenor repertoire. He successively joined the young ensembles of the Flanders Opera and the Grand Théâtre Geneva and made his debut in the opera houses of Montpellier and ORW Liège. In that period he appeared as Normanno (Lucia di Lammermoor), Capitaine Ricardo (Chérubin, by Massenet), Brighella and Tanzmeister (Ariadne auf Naxos) ; Prince Arjuna (Satyagraha, Philip Glass) ; Messaggero (Aida), Pedrillo in (Entführung aus dem Serail) ; Janek (The Makropoulos Affair)…
The Dutch Radio Philharmonic Orchestra invited him for the role of Pietro in Die Gezeichneten (Franz Schreker) at Concertgebouw Amsterdam and for the tenor solo part in Sulamith (P.H. van Gilse), at Vredenburg, Utrecht. And under the baton of M° Dirk, the artist also made his debut at the renowned Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra.
Meanwhile he has sung under the baton of Paolo Arrivabeni, Dmitri Jurowski, Andrew Greenwood, Korneel Bernolet, Clemens Heil, Gabriel Venzago, Olof Boma, Stefan Klingele, Jean-Marie Zeitouni, Tomas Netopil, Jesus Lopez-Cobos, Alexander Joel, Cornelius Meister, Antonini Fogliani, Fabio Biondi, Ed Spanjaard, Alejo Perez, Bassem Akiki, Alain Altinoglu, Jonathan Nott…
In a constantly growing recital and concert activity Denzil Delaere participated in J.S. Bach’s Magnificat, Christmas-Oratorio, Kaffeekantate, Missa Brevis in A major, Matthew Passion, in Handel’s Messiah, Haydn’s Creation and Mozart’s Coronation Mass and Requiem. His “Lied” repertoire includes songs by Schubert, Brahms, Beethoven, Fauré, Poulenc and Rachmaninov.
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