Daniel Kamalic, baritone

Biography

Boston-based Lyric baritone Daniel Kamalic returns to Connecticut Lyric Opera after
performing the roles of Masetto in last season's /Don Giovanni /and Papageno in /The
Magic Flute./  Connecticut audiences may also recognize him as King Melchior from Thames Valley Music School's 2003 and '04 productions of /Amahl and the Night Visitors/, or as the Corporal from Boston Lyric Opera/Opera New England's 2006 tour of /The Daughter of the Regiment./  He recently created the role of Doctor Leale in the world premiere performance and recording of Eric Sawyer's opera /Our American Cousin/ with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project.  This season, he also performed with the New England Light Opera as Cox in the rarely-produced Sullivan operetta /Cox and Box, /and as Lycidas in a new reconstruction of Gilbert's /Happy Arcadia./  He will return to BMOP in September for /Our American Cousin/'s first fully staged performances in Northampton MA, and to NELO in October for the Gilbert/Sullivan operettas' second run in Salem MA.  In the 2005-06 season, Mr. Kamalic created the role of Dupoirier in Granite State Opera's workshop premiere of Thomas Oboe Lee's /Oscar Wilde/, and also sang the role of Orpheus in the first-ever American performance of Matthew Locke's masque /The Empress of Morocco/ as part of "Filthy Rich", the Vox Consort's critically-acclaimed concert in partnership with the Spare Change Homeless Empowerment Project.  Other recent engagements include, with Opera Boston: Joseph in /La Vie Parisienne/, the Chief of Police in /L'Etoile, /Ben in /The Telephone/.  With Granite State Opera: Speaker/First Priest/Armored Man in /The Magic Flute/, Marullo in /Rigoletto.  /With Cape Cod Opera: Frank in /Die Fledermaus, /Marco in /Gianni Schicchi./  With Raylynmor Opera: Robin in /Ruddigore, /Morales in /Carmen./  Mr. Kamalic is currently on artist residencies with National Public Radio and London-based Streetwise Opera, and is the resident stage director for the Young Opera Company of New England.  He holds degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the New England Conservatory of Music.