Daniel Kamalic

Winner of the 2014 American Prize Oratorio Award, lyric-dramatic tenor Daniel Kamalić has been praised for his “silver-toned” (Chris Ruel, OperaWire), “big, stunning voice” (Chris Buchanan, Berkshire Fine Arts) with “exciting, tremendous force and a burnished tonal quality” (Larry Kellum, Middletown Times). Oratorio/symphonic highlights include the tenor solos in Orff's Carmina Burana with the New York State Ballet, Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 at Harvard, Beethoven's Choral Fantasy in Chicago, Schubert's Mass No. 5, Haydn's Theresienmesse, and Casals's El Pessebre in Connecticut, Handel’s Messiah in NY and Spanish-language El Mesías in Providence, and premieres by Kyder (Letter from Italy, 1944) and Grimes (Mass for a Dawning Age). His busy 2022-23 season has included the roles of Rodolfo in La Bohème with Buffalo Opera Unlimited, Don José in Carmen with both Opera Theater of Connecticut and NYC’s The Opera Next Door, Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus with both Connecticut Lyric Opera and New Rochelle Opera, King Kaspar in Amahl and the Night Visitors with Opera Connecticut, Beadle Bamford in Sweeney Todd with Madison Lyric Stage, and two new operas: Jarrar’s The Cask of Amontillado at NYC’s Emerging Artist Theater, and Santelli’s The Silk City at New Jersey’s Garden State Opera. Upcoming performances in 2024 include the role of Werther in Werther, and his Lincoln Center debut in Marshall Opera’s Oral History Project.