Daniel Sumegi Announced as Rockdale Opera Patron
Rockdale Opera Company is delighted to announce that internationally renowned Australian Bass Baritone, Mr. Daniel Sumegi, has accepted the Company’s invitation to be its Patron.
“I am delighted to have been asked to be Patron of Rockdale Opera Company,” said Daniel.
“As Australia’s oldest opera company, it has provided a much needed platform for young aspiring professionals to ‘tread the boards’ alongside the people that make up the bulk of the company - the true opera lovers. I made my solo debut at Rockdale 31 years ago as Fiorello in The Barber of Seville alongside the beautiful Deborah Riedel. Having then sung in four other productions with ROC in my early days, I moved out into the wider vocal world - where I have proudly been singing professionally since 1988.
“Rockdale Opera Company is very much a community organisation and has been generously supported by the Rockdale City Council for many generations. It is my sincere wish to help widen our profile and facilitate more engagement with other relevant performing arts bodies in Sydney and beyond.
“The word ‘Rockdale’ resonates so powerfully throughout the operatic family and I sincerely hope this invaluable cornerstone of our culture continues to flourish,” Daniel said.
Daniel Sumegi has had an impressive career, having sung some 100 Roles in opera houses all over the world, including New York’s Metropolitan Opera, the Paris Opera, Hamburg State Opera, Teatro Colon Buenos Aires and Tokyo’s New National Theatre. He has been a regular guest artist with Opera Australia since his debut there 20 years ago. Regarded as much for his acting as his impressive vocal ability, Daniel has an extremely wide and varied repertoire, which ranges from Baroque through to current World Premieres. Wagner and Strauss are the mainstays of his operatic appearances but equally he is no stranger to Beethoven, Mozart or Shostakovitch and the many other composers whose music he has performed over the past 30 years.
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