Mihai Damian

The 2025/26 season sees Damian takes further strides on the international stage making his role debuts as Mercutio in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette at Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, and as Ford in Verdi’s Falstaff at the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari. On the concert platform, he performs Mussorgsky’s Songs and Dances of Death with the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and a role debut as Daniele in the world premiere of  Umberto Giordano’s Marina in concert with the Fondazione I Pomeriggi Musicali.

A 2024 graduate of the Gheorghe Dima National Academy of Music in Cluj, where he pursued both conducting and singing, he was immediately invited upon his graduation, to join the ensemble of Romanian National Opera in Cluj where his roles include Belcore L’elisir d’amore, Figaro Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Conte Le Nozze di Figaro, Sonora La fanciulla del West and Marcello La Boheme.

As a guest artist Damian has performed Masetto Don Giovanni with Teatro dell’Opera di Roma at the Terme di Caracalla, Escamillo Carmen at the Romanian National Opera in Bucharest, Paolo Simon Boccanegra at the Romanian National Opera in Timisoara, Donald Billy Budd at the Enescu Festival, Guglielmo Le Villi at Konzerthaus Berlin and Giacomo in Verdi’s Giovanna d`Arco at Ópera de Bellas Artes in Mexico City.

His vocal symphonic repertoire includes Carmina Burana. Rachmaninoff’s The Bells, Beethoven’s 9^th Symphony, Faure’s Requiem, Messa di Gloria by Puccini and Messa per Rossini.

Damian is also a laureate ofthe 62nd International Tenor Viñas Singing Competition, including Second Prize and a sweep of prestigious distinctions such as the Audience Prize, Verdi Prize, Houston Grand Opera Prize, Teatro Real Prize, Best Baritone Prize, and the European Opera Centre Prize; the Eva Marton International Singing Competition in Budapest (2^nd prize) and Concorso Lirico Internazionale di Portofino where he was awarded the Eva Kleinitz Award for a Young Talent. At home in Romania, he won the Grand Prize and Public’s Award at Verum Solitus Opera Competition, First Prize at Mozart International Competition and the Grand Prize at Alexandru Fărcaș Voice Competition in Romania.