The following interview took place at the Santa Fe Opera Ranch the day before Mr Lomeli’s festival debut as Rodolfo in Puccini’s “La Boheme”. The facilitation of this interview by the Santa Fe Opera is gratefully acknowledged. Wm: You grew up in Mexico City and were a little boy...
ViewHe’s an Operalia winner. He’s a recent graduate of San Francisco Opera‘s prestigious Adler Fellows program for the most advanced young singers. As Nemorino in Donizetti’s The Elixir of Love presented by New York City Opera this past spring, tenor David Lomeli was the rising star New York critics...
ViewIt was hard to tell if David Lomelí was laughing or crying at the warm, extended ovation that followed his big aria on Tuesday evening at the New York City Opera, but he certainly deserved all the applause and bravos. As the lovesick small-town bumpkin Nemorino in Donizetti’s classic,...
ViewSAN FRANCISCO — David Lomeli can’t remember a time when music wasn’t part of his life. “I grew up with 13 women around me, and there was always singing,” says the 29-year-old Mexican tenor. Lomeli completed his second year as an Adler Fellow at the San Francisco Opera in...
ViewOne of music’s greatest joys is watching young artists develop at home, then soar to success. For those who have nurtured and cheered South African soprano Elza van den Heever and Mexican tenor David Lomelí as they have blossomed in San Francisco Opera Center’s Merola and Adler Fellows programs,...
ViewTenor David Lomelí is finishing up as an Adler at San Francisco Opera this Fall by covering the title role of Werther and singing the Messenger in Aida. He sings Edgardo in Pittsburgh Opera’s Lucia die Lammermoor this November, Alfredo at Deutsche Oper Berlin in December, Nemorino at New...
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