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Dario Schmunck
Dario Schmunck was born and trained with Nino Falzetti and Andres
Risso in Argentina. He won the Secondo Concorso Internazionale di
Canto Franco Corelli in Ancona.
He made his debut at the Teatro Argentino de La Plata as Lindoro
L’Italiana in Algeri, Conte Almaviva Il Barbiere di Siviglia and Don
Ottavio Don Giovanni, before beginning a long association with the
Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires as Jacquino Fidelio.
He has had strong links with a number of theatres, including the
Staatsoper Hamburg, Teatro la Fenice in Venice, the Wiener
Volksoper (where he sang for several seasons), the Aalto
Musiktheater Essen (where he began his European career, engaged
by Stefan Soltesz) and, of course, the Teatro Colon where he has sung many roles.
The core of Dario Schmunck’s repertoire has been and will continue to be the Italian bel-canto
roles, which he has sung in some of the best opera houses in the world. The roles with which he
has so far been most associated are Leicester Maria Stuarda (Teatro alla Scala, Teatro la Fenice,
Opera di Roma, Opéra National de Lyon, Theatre des Champs Élysées), Alfredo La Traviata
(Wiener Staatsoper, Teatro San Carlo, Hamburg, Venice, Zagreb), Tebaldo I Capuleti ei
Montecchi (Royal Opera House in London, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Teatro Carlo Felice in Genova),
Il Duca Rigoletto (Hamburg, Venice, Toulouse, Teatro Verdi di Salerno, Teatro Argentino de la
Plata and the five theatres of the Circuito Lombardo), Edgardo Lucia di Lammermoor (Teatro
Colon, Salerno) and Lord Percy Anna Bolena (Lyon and Paris).
Dario Schmunck’s other roles have included the title role in Faust (which he has sung in Bergen
and Lisbon), Ernesto Don Pasquale (Bologna, Naples and St. Gallen), The Italian Tenor Der
Rosenkavalier (Bayerische Staatsoper and Oper Frankfurt), Nemorino L’Elisir d’Amore (Palma de
Mallorca and the Wiener Volksoper) and Principe Pio in Vive’s La Generala (the Volksoper and
Teatro Verdi in Trieste), as well as Fenton Falstaff, Tamino Die Zauberflöte, Rinuccio Gianni
Schicchi which he has sung at the Teatro Colon.
Dario Schmunck has worked with many of the finest conductors, including Lorin Maazel, Stefan
Soltesz, Mark Elder, Evelino Pido, Lawrence Foster, Donato Renzetti, Simone Young, Alberto
Zedda, Daniel Oren and Paolo Arrivabeni and has recorded Bellini’s La Straniera with David Parry
and Opera Rara.
Dario Schmunck’s most recent roles have included Jago Rossini’s Otello at the Theatre La
Monnaie in Brussels, Edgardo Lucia di Lammermoor in Valladolid and Leicester Maria Stuarda
in Bergamo and Rovigo opposite Mariella Devia. He will sing Leopold La Juive in Göteborg.
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