BIOGRAPHY

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Born in 1996, Italian tenor Davide Battiniello started his Voice studies at the Conservatorio di Musica San Pietro a Maiella, Naples, at the age of 17. He is currently studying under the guidance of Francesca Patané, Marco Chingari, Giuseppe Polese and Andrea Carnevale.

 

In 2015, he joined the Jubilate Deo Musical Association of Torre del Greco, with which he began an intense concert activity, performing a broad repertoire ranging from sacred to secular music. In this same year, he took part in the Etna Opera Festival, as chorist and soloist, in La Traviata and Rossini’s La Cenerentola, under the direction of Simone Alaimo. In December of the same year, he attended a masterclass in opera singing with Katia Ricciarelli and was also a finalist in the 9th International Opera Singing Competition “Città di Ravello.”

 

In 2018, he was still singing as baritone and won a competition for the role of Figaro in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro and debuted at the Etna Opera Festival, under the musical direction of A. Tarantino and staging by Maestro Simone Alaimo. He participated as a soloist in the international conference NAPOLI & ROSSINI – Di questa luce un raggio. At the prestigious Sala Scarlatti of the San Pietro a Majella Conservatory in Naples, he performed as a soloist in Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle. In 2019, he performed at the Teatrino di Corte of the Royal Palace of Naples in the show Pagine del Novecento Italiano, a production of the Conservatory’s Department of Voice. He performed at the Lirica sotto le Stelle, a concert of opera arias and Neapolitan songs alongside Simone Alaimo.

 

In 2021, he took part in a lyrical concert with orchestra at the Municipal Theater of Sarno (SA), performing a wide-ranging Italian operatic repertoire. In 2022, he successfully auditioned for the Puccini Academy at the Festival Puccini Torre del Lago, debuting the roles of Mandarin in Turandot and Crébillon in La Rondine. Davide performed at the Teatro degli Animosi in Carrara, in a concert of excerpts from Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana, conducted by Jacopo Sipari di Pescasseroli.

 

In the 2023/24 season, already as tenor, Battiniello debuted the role of Ainulfo in Normanni a Salerno by Temistocle Marzano, at the Di Costanzo–Mattiello Theater in Pompeii, conducted by Giuseppe Polese. In January, he joined the AsLiCo Tour, performing the role of Prince Calaf in Turandot – Enigmi al Museo, based on the homonyme opera by G. Puccini. This tour brought Davide to perform in several Italian theatres such as Teatro Regio di Parma, Teatro Sociale di Como, Teatro Grande di Brescia, Teatro Ponchielli di Cremona, Teatro Alighieri di Ravenna and Arena Sferisterio di Macerata, among others. In the same season, he won the role of Don José in Bizet’s Carmen, at the Cuore d’Oro Competition, awarded by Nicoletta Mantovani. He closed his season participating in a masterclass at the Casa Museo Luciano Pavarotti in Modena, with the tenor Marcelo Álvarez.

 

Highlights of Davide Battiniello’s 2024/25 season include the concert Cavalleria Rusticana e Grandi Amori: Arias and Italian Bel Canto, conducted by Maurizio Petrolo, at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia; Alfredo in Verdi’s La Traviata, in semi-staged concert version at the Teatro Mattiello di Pompeii, under the direction of Nicola Polese; Cavaradossi in a semi-staged production of Puccini’s Tosca at the Falcone e Borsellino Auditorium in Costabissara; the concert 100 Years of Voice and Emotion – Tribute to Rina De Tata at the Parish Church of San Rocco in Frattamaggiore.

 

Among his next engagements, Davide Battiniello will sing the title role in Mascagni’s L’Amico Fritz, in partnership with the Opéra Nice Côte d’Azur, at the Festival Opus Opera 2025, in Gattières, France.