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David Serero (born 22 April 1981) is a Moroccan-French baritone opera singer, stage & film director, and producer. He has sung in many concerts and performed in opera, theater and musicals such as the title role in Cyrano de Bergerac, Othello, Richard III, Don Giovanni, Rigoletto and Nabucco, Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, Don Quixote in Man of La Mancha, Escamillo in Carmen, Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor and Amonasro in Aida, and in films and TV series. He has toured in America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Russia. He received the 2019 Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2020, he received the UNESCO Award for Diversity. He won the 2020 BroadwayWorld Awards for Best Performer of the decade, Best Producer of a Musical of the decade, Best Producer of a Play of the decade. The Mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio, awarded him with the Certificate of Recognition for his contributions to the City of New York. Born in Paris to a Moroccan Jewish family from Fez, Serero studied jazz piano at the American School of Modern Music and at the Bill Evans Piano Academy in Paris. He lived in New York from 2001 to 2003, where he studied singing and acting at the HB Studio, where he played roles in classic plays. Serero moved to St. Petersburg, Russia, to study at the Rimsky-Korsakov Music Conservatory, where he made his debut as Scarpia in Tosca and Germont in La traviata. Following these performances, he joined the Young Singers Academy of the Mariinsky Theater. In 2006, Serero made his European debut in the role of Escamillo in Carmen at the Brasov Opera and returned the following year to perform the four villains in The Tales of Hoffmann. The next year he performed as Alfio in Cavalleria rusticana and Canio in Pagliacci in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. In 2008, he played Dr Malatesta in Don Pasquale with the Centre Philharmonic Orchestra in Bordeaux, and returned to the Brasov Opera, where he received the Encouragement Prize from the Bizet Foundation for his performance of Zurga in The Pearl Fishers. In 2009, he performed Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor and Escamillo in Florida, and in July, was selected to be part of the opera competition Operalia, founded by Plácido Domingo, at the Budapest Opera and Pecs Opera. In 2010, he performed more than 50 performances of the lead roles in the operettas La Périchole and La Grande-Duchesse de Gerolstein, in Paris, and also performed Zapata in the operetta Le Chanteur de Mexico in Nice, France. In June 2010, he performed a concert in front of the Eiffel Tower for more than 18 000 people. From September 2010 to June 2011, Serero performed at the Opera du Ranelagh in Paris, which included a concert with pianist Cyprien Katsaris. In April 2011, he sang at the Olympia in Paris. In June 2010, he performed three concerts in Vladikavkaz (Russia). In June 2011, he performed at the Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow. That same month, he played the part of the bodyguard in the movie Chinese Zodiac CZ12, directed by Jackie Chan. In July 2011, he performed the lead role of the first opera in Hebrew, The Dybbuk, at the Kfar Blum Festival, Israel. ... Source: Article "David Serero (singer)" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
