Freddie De Tommaso

Tenor

A phenomenal voice and talent in the tradition of the great Italian tenor voices, Freddie De Tommaso has captured wide spread acclaim with headline grabbing debuts and chart-topping album releases. The British-Italian tenor shot to fame in December 2021 when he jumped in as Cavaradossi in the Royal Ballet & Opera’s production of Tosca, thus becoming at the age of 28 the youngest ever tenor to perform the role on the iconic stage and the first Brit since 1963. De Tommaso, who was due to perform the role at a later date, took to the stage after the first interval when the tenor originally scheduled became unwell during the first of the three acts, prompting the press to unanimously declare that a new star was born.

An exclusive artist with Decca Classics and the first tenor to be signed to the label since 2007, his debut album Passione debuted at number 1 in the classical charts and won the BBC Music Magazine Award for Best Newcomer. In June 2022 his second album Il Tenore shot again straight to number 1 in the charts upon its release, whilst his rendition of Nessun Dorma, featured on the album, reached over one million streams.

The 2024/25 season kicks off with a tour of Tosca together with soprano, Lise Davidsen. They perform together at the Staatsoper unter den Linden, Bayerische Staatsoper, the Metropolitan Opera, which is also his eagerly anticipated company debut, and the Wiener Staatsoper. Another major highlight is the role of Pollione in Bellini’s Norma which he performs in new productions at Teatro alla Scala Milan, Theater an der Wien and at the Wiener Staatsoper. De Tommaso can also be heard as Rodolfo La bohème in Hamburg; Don Jose Carmen at the Royal Ballet & Opera and Wiener Staatsoper; and Cavaradossi in Bonn. On the concert platform, his appearances include his Paris debut with a solo recital together with pianist Jonathan Papp; a concert together with Angela Gheorghiu at the Broadstage Theatre in California; a Gala concert for the Solti Academy at the Hungarian State Opera; and a concert with Lise Davidsen and James Baillieu at the Gstaad Festival.

 

Last season included several exciting appearances and debuts starting with a triple appearance at Gran Teatre del Liceu as Riccardo Un ballo in Maschera, Maurizio Adriana Lecouvreur and in recital with Lise Davidsen; a concert and recording with Orchestra di Teatro alla Scala and Riccardo Chailly of Inno delle Nazioni and his role debuts as Pollione Norma in Naples and as Adorno Simon Boccanegra at the Wiener Staatsoper. Other engagements included Rodolfo La bohème in Berlin and Vienna and Pinkerton Madama Butterfly in Munich. In concert and recital he sang Verdi Requiem at Teatro Regio di Parma; performed in concert with Teatro di San Carlo Naples; with the Mannheim Philharmonic alongside Sonya Yoncheva; with Lise Davidsen at the Salzburg Easter Festival as well as solo recitals in the Czech Republic, Munich and Sofia.

 

Recent highlights include Rodolfo La bohème and Cavaradossi at the Royal Ballet & Opera; Rodolfo La bohème at Teatro alla Scala; Cavaradossi at Santa Fe Opera for his US debut; Don José Carmen, Alfredo La traviata and Cavaradossi at Arena di Verona; Macduff Macbeth Wiener Staatsoper; Alfredo La traviata at Staatsoper Berlin and Bayerische Staatsoper; and at the Dutch National Opera with a staged production of Verdi Requiem. Concert appearances have included an open air concert Opera for All in Munich alongside Sonya Yoncheva; the New Year’s Eve Concert at Teatro La Fenice in Venice; Tosca and Verdi Requiem at the Bergen International Festival and with the Orchestre National de Lyon; recitals at the Festival Castell Peralada; the opening concert of the Kissinger Sommer Festival and Verdi Requiem Verbier Festival.

 

Other recent highlights include his company and role debut at Teatro alla Scala as Maurizio in David McVicar’s production of Adriana Lecouvreur; Don Jose Carmen, Pinkerton Madama Butterfly, Macduff Macbeth, Ismaele Nabucco and The Italian Tenor Der Rosenkavalier, all at the Wiener Staatsoper; Tosca the Bolshoi Theatre and Royal Ballet & Opera; Madama Butterfly at Semperoper Dresden and Royal Ballet & Opera; Alfredo La Traviata at Staatsoper Berlin and Bayerische Staatsoper; Macduff Macbeth at Bayerische Staaysoper; Carmen, Tosca and La Traviata at Arena di Verona; and Riccardo Un ballo in maschera at the Verbier Festival.

 

After graduating from the Royal Academy of Music and subsequently the Opera Studio of Bayerische Staatsoper in 2019, De Tommaso burst onto the operatic scene as Cassio in Otello at the Royal Ballet & Opera and Ismaele in Nabucco with the Dutch National Opera. He then opened the 2020-21 season of the Wiener Staatsoper as Pinkerton with a new production of Madama Butterfly, aged 27.

Performances

DECEMBER 10 2024

Cavaradossi, Tosca; Wiener Staatsoper

Vienna, Austria

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DECEMBER 12 2024

Rodolfo, La bohème; Hamburg State Opera

Hamburg, Germany

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DECEMBER 14 2024

Rodolfo, La bohème; Hamburg State Opera

Hamburg, Germany

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DECEMBER 17 2024

Rodolfo, La bohème; Hamburg State Opera

Hamburg, Germany

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JANUARY 3 2025

Recital with Lise Davidsen; Gstaad Festival

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Performances

DECEMBER 10 2024Cavaradossi, Tosca; Wiener StaatsoperVienna, AustriaBuy Tickets
DECEMBER 12 2024Rodolfo, La bohème; Hamburg State OperaHamburg, GermanyBuy Tickets
DECEMBER 14 2024Rodolfo, La bohème; Hamburg State OperaHamburg, GermanyBuy Tickets
DECEMBER 17 2024Rodolfo, La bohème; Hamburg State OperaHamburg, GermanyBuy Tickets
JANUARY 3 2025Recital with Lise Davidsen; Gstaad FestivalBuy Tickets
FEBRUARY 16 2025Pollione, Norma; Theater an der WienWien, AustriaBuy Tickets
FEBRUARY 19 2025Pollione, Norma; Theater an der WienWien, AustriaBuy Tickets
FEBRUARY 23 2025Pollione, Norma; Theater an der WienWien, AustriaBuy Tickets
FEBRUARY 26 2025Pollione, Norma; Theater an der WienWien, AustriaBuy Tickets
MARCH 1 2025Pollione, Norma; Theater an der WienWien, AustriaBuy Tickets
MARCH 4 2025Pollione, Norma; Theater an der WienWien, AustriaBuy Tickets
MARCH 7 2025Pollione, Norma; Theater an der WienWien, AustriaBuy Tickets
APRIL 9 2025Don Jose, Carmen; Royal Opera HouseLondon, United KingdomBuy Tickets
APRIL 11 2025Don Jose, Carmen; Royal Opera HouseLondon, United KingdomBuy Tickets
APRIL 14 2025Don Jose, Carmen; Royal Opera HouseLondon, United KingdomBuy Tickets
APRIL 21 2025Don Jose, Carmen; Royal Opera HouseLondon, United KingdomBuy Tickets
APRIL 24 2025Don Jose, Carmen; Royal Opera HouseLondon, United KingdomBuy Tickets
APRIL 26 2025Don Jose, Carmen; Royal Opera HouseLondon, United KingdomBuy Tickets
MAY 16 2025Pollione, Norma; Wiener StaatsoperVienna, AustriaBuy Tickets
MAY 20 2025Pollione, Norma; Wiener StaatsoperVienna, AustriaBuy Tickets
MAY 23 2025Pollione, Norma; Wiener StaatsoperVienna, AustriaBuy Tickets
MAY 26 2025Pollione, Norma; Wiener StaatsoperVienna, AustriaBuy Tickets
JUNE 3 2025Don Jose, Carmen; Wiener StaatsoperVienna, AustriaBuy Tickets
JUNE 6 2025Don Jose, Carmen; Wiener StaatsoperVienna, AustriaBuy Tickets
JUNE 27 2025Pollione, Norma; Teatro alla ScalaMilano MI, ItalyBuy Tickets
JUNE 30 2025Pollione, Norma; Teatro alla ScalaMilano MI, ItalyBuy Tickets
JULY 4 2025Pollione, Norma; Teatro alla ScalaMilano MI, ItalyBuy Tickets
JULY 8 2025Pollione, Norma; Teatro alla ScalaMilano MI, ItalyBuy Tickets
JULY 11 2025Pollione, Norma; Teatro alla ScalaMilano MI, ItalyBuy Tickets
JULY 14 2025Pollione, Norma; Teatro alla ScalaMilano MI, ItalyBuy Tickets
JULY 17 2025Pollione, Norma; Teatro alla ScalaMilano MI, ItalyBuy Tickets
JULY 24 2025Turiddu, Cavalleria Rusticana; Verbier FestivalVevey, SwitzerlandBuy Tickets
AUGUST 23 2025Don Jose, Carmen; Arena di VeronaVerona, VR, ItalyBuy Tickets

Press

Listen to Freddie De Tommaso at full throttle and you’ll need to lie down in a darkened room. Passione is singing in the tradition of De Tommaso’s hero Franco Corelli: stylish and heartfelt, spinning gold out of the simplest of popular Italian songs.

Classical Music - BBC Music Magazine

How did he fare? I’ll let Cavaradossi answer that: “Vittoria!” is the tenor’s big moment in Act II, when the rebellious painter unwisely goads his tormenter Scarpia with a cry of victory for Napoleon. De Tommaso, eyes fixed on the audience — fair enough — let his high A-sharp sail out into the theatre with muscular abandon. Pausing on the note for show is, of course, not in the score, but this was not the time for good taste and it was thrillingly done. Yet De Tommaso also proved he could do subtle as well, delivering a nobly phrased E lucevan le stelle … singing of his memories of trysts with Tosca with affecting and really rather moving solemnity.

The Times

A tsunami of emotions awaits purchasers of Passione, the debut album of Freddie de Tommaso. Enough people have been drawn to his rousing delivery of Italian (often Neapolitan) songs to push this release straight away to the top of the classical album charts.

The Times

a bombshell voice and unshakable heights

BR-Klassik

A radiantly powerful voice.

Wiener Zeitung

Vocal phenomenon

Der Standard

Releases

Il Tenore
Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera

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