BIOGRAPHY

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Serbian baritone David Bizic studied at opera studio of Israeli Opera and Young Artists Studio of Opéra National de Paris. He won the Second Prize at the prestigious Plácido Domingo’s competition Operalia 2007.

 

Praised for his performances in Mozart’s roles, he sang Figaro in Le Nozze di Figaro, at Opéra Nantes Angers, Opéra National du Rhin Strasbourg, Opéra de Monte-Carlo, Opéra National de Bordeaux and Grand Théâtre de Genève; Conte Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro, at the Opéra de Saint-Étienne; the title role in Don Giovanni, at Opéra National de Rouen Normandie and Slovenian National Opera in Maribor; Leporello in Don Giovanni, at Bolshoi Theatre, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Palau de les Arts de Valencia, Paris Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago and Wiener Staatsoper; Masetto in Don Giovanni, at the Opéra National de Paris, Teatro Real de Madrid and Festival d’Aix-en-Provence; Don Alfonso in Così fan Tutte, at Opéra de Dijon and Opéra de Saint-Étienne; Guglielmo in Così fan Tutte, at the Paris Opera; and Publio in La Clemenza di Tito, at Opéra Grand Avignon, Opéra National de Montpellier and in Strasbourg.

 

In Puccini’s La Bohème, David sang both baritone roles: Marcello at Irish National Opera, Opéra National de Bordeaux and The Metropolitan Opera, Schaunard at Covent Garden and Opéra National de Paris. Other Italian roles compose an important part of his career. Bizic sang Germont in Verdi’s La Traviata, at the Opéra de Toulon; Belcore in Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’Amore, at San Francisco Opera and Toulon Opera; Enrico in Donizetti’s Lucia di Lamermoor, at the Opéra de Toulon; Sharpless in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, at The Met; Lescaut in Puccini’s Manon Lescaut, at the Gran Teatre del Liceu; and Procolo Cornacchia in Donizeti’s Le Convenienze ed Incovenienze Teatrali, at the Grand Théâtre de Genève, among others.   

 

David Bizic is also praised for his participations in French operas such as Escamillo in Carmen by G. Bizet, at The Royal Swedish Opera, Opéra de Toulon, Macerata Opera Festival, Israeli Opera, Serbian National Opera in Belgrade, Opéra de Dijon and Opéra National de Lorraine; Albert in Massenet’s Werther, at The Metropolitan Opera and Covent Garden; Zurga in Bizet’s Les Pêcheurs de Perles, at Opéra de Bordeaux and Klangkoval Musikfestival Dortmund; Abimélech in Saint-Saëns’ Samson et Dalila, at the Opéra National de Montpellier; Grand Prêtre de Dagon in Samson et Dalila, at the Stockholm Opera; Créon in Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex, at the Strasburg Opera and more.

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Thanks to his language’s skills, he sang Slavic roles such as the title one in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, at Israeli Opera, Opéra-Théâtre de Metz, Opéra de Reims and Opéra de Limoges; Čekunov in Janaček’s From the House of the Death, at the Teatro Real de Madrid; Herold in Prokofiev’s L’Amour des Trois Oranges and Hajný in Dvořak’s Rusalka, at the Paris Opera. And a German one: Der Führer in Paul Hindemith’s Cardillac, in Paris. 

 

In seasons 2023-24 and 2022-23, David made his house debut at the San Francisco Opera, singing Belcore. Then he performed as Escamillo in Toulon; Marcello at the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, by the Seiji Ozawa Music Academy; Don Alfonso in Saint-Étienne; and the solo part in Les Béatitudes by César Franck, with Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège and Hungarian National Choir.

 

In the 2021-22 season, he sang Sharpless at The Metropolitan Opera, Don Alfonso at the Opéra de Dijon and Ave Maria by Bietl, conducted by Marc Minkowski, at the Bordeaux Opera. Highlights of David Bizic’s 2020-21 include a concert with highlights of Il Barbiere di Siviglia in Bordeaux, Germont in Toulon, Marcello in Dublin and some performances being cancelled by the pandemic.  

 

His concert appearances include Schubert’s A-flat Mass and Haydn’s Nelson Mass, with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra; La Vida Breve in a concert version with the Orchestre de Paris, conducted by Rafael Frübeck de Burgos; Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with National Orchestras of Bordeaux and Montpellier; Fauré’s Requiem with the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris and Accentus Choir by the Saint Denis Festival, conducted by Laurence Equilbey; César Franck’s Les Béatitudes, with the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège; and Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem with the Serbian Radio TV Symphony Orchestra.