Daniel Luis de Vicente

Biography

The Spanish-American baritone Daniel Luis de Vicente made his National Theatre Opera debut in 2020/21 season in the title role of Rigoletto (the State Opera production). 

Daniel Luis de Vicente is quickly gaining recognition for his masterful interpretations of 19th and 20th century Italian repertoire, particularly in the works of Verdi and Puccini. Season 2026/2027 sees important debuts at Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires as Jago in Otello, at Festival Verdi in Parma as Gusmano in Alzira, at Teatro Real in Madrid as Simon Boccanegra, at Oper Köln as Macbeth, at Teatro di San Carlo in Naples as Tonio in Pagliacci and at Opera Australia as Renato in Un ballo in maschera. He also returns to National Theatre Prague as Macbeth and as Scarpia in Tosca. Last season marked his debut at the Royal Opera House in London as Rigoletto, a role that he also reprised with Deutsche Oper Berlin and Oper Leipzig. He starred as Scarpia in Tosca with the Royal Danish Opera and as Nabucco with Opera Vlaanderen, Bayerische Staatsoper and Slovak National Theatre as well. Recent appearances include his Wiener Staatsoper debut as Simon Boccanegra with M° Marco Armiliato conducting, Rigoletto at Teatro Massimo Palermo with M° Daniel Oren, as well as Scarpia in Tosca at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and at Teatro dell’Opera in Rome. Past seasons included debuts at Teatro del Maggio Musicale in Florence, Oper Frankfurt and Welsh National Opera, all as Rigoletto; a role for which he is in high demand. He was reinvited back to The National Theatre in Prague as Rigoletto and Germont in La Traviata, and made his role debut as Lescaut in Puccini’s Manon Lescaut at the Bayerische Staatsoper, after his successful debut as Michele and Gianni Schicchi in Puccini’s Il Trittico there in 2024. He was also invited to return to Florence, debuting as Amonasro in Aida. Based in Germany, de Vicente has appeared with the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Oper Frankfurt, Staatsoper Hannover, Aalto-Musiktheater Essen, Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Volksoper Wien, and at the Tiroler Landestheater, Innsbruck where he was given a 2020 Austrian Music Theatre Award. More career highlights include Michele/Gianni Schicchi in Barrie Kosky’s Il Trittico with the Dutch National Opera & Ballet under the baton of M° Lorenzo Viotti, and starring in Philip Stölzl’s Rigoletto at the Bregenzer Festspiele. Last season he sang his first Nabucco in Bratislava at the Slovak National Theatre. On the concert platform, de Vicente has sung the baritone solo in Dvorak’s Te Deum and Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with the Bochumer Symphoniker, and sang the world premiere of a new work, Poltron V. que tu es, by Simon Vosecek in Prague.