After auditioning for the famous Soprano Licia Albanese in New York, he decided to apply to the Juilliard School of Music. He was accepted to their Graduate Program and received a scholarship to study voice with Marlena Malas. Later, he attended the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, and the Accademia Verdiana under the guidance of Carlo Bergonzi in Busseto. He also took private lessons with Licia Albanese, Carlo Bergonzi, and German conductor Bernhard Lang.<\/span><\/p>\n His first engagement as a singer was as a member of the Internationale Opernstudio at the Z\u00fcrich Opera House. He has lived in Europe ever since and has appeared regularly in a variety of mostly German-speaking Opera Houses, among them, the Staatsoper Hannover, the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, the Staatstheater N\u00fcrnberg, Staatstheater Kassel, and the Vienna Volksoper. As a concert singer, he appeared at the Herkulessaal in Munich, the K\u00f6lner Philharmonie, with the Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra in Japan, in Taiwan and in Israel. His largest audience (about 60,000 people) attended an open-air concert (2008) at the Luitpoldhain in Nuremberg, Germany.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]His concert repertoire stretches from H\u00e4ndel’s “The Messiah” to Verdi’s Requiem, and includes works as different as Carl Orff’s “Carmina Burana”, Dvorak’s “Requiem”, and Bacalov’s “Misa Tango”. He has worked with conductors such as Marco Armiliato, Chen Zimbalista, Fabio Luisi, Daniel Oren, Pier-Giorgio Morandi, Lothar Koenigs, James Levine, and Placido Domingo.<\/span><\/p>\n Outside of Germany, Ricardo Tamura has appeared, among others, as Radames (“Aida”) at the Arena di Verona, as Bacchus (“Ariadne auf Naxos”) at the Welsh National Opera, as Erik (“The Flying Dutchman”) at the Festival de Opera de Bel\u00e9m (Brazil), and as Calaf (“Turandot”) at the Volksoper Vienna as well as the Wichita Grand Opera. He had his Metropolitan Opera debut in December 2013, as Cavaradossi (“Tosca”), and has returned in the title role of Verdi’s five-acts “Don Carlo”, as Riccardo, in Verdi’s “Un Ballo in Maschera”, and as Turiddu, in Mascagni’s “Cavalleria Rusticana”. He became the first Brasilian tenor ever to sing a leading role at the MET.<\/span><\/p>\n After suffering a severe brain hemorrhage in 2017, he was forced to take a break from his international career. Contrary to all expectations, he was back on stage ten weeks later and has since then appeared in many operas of his main repertoire (like “Tosca”, “Carmen, “Manon Lescaut”), and debuted in a completely new one: In the title role of Wagner’s “Rienzi”<\/span><\/p>\n After being a Vocal Instructor at the Berlin Opera Academy (2016-2022), he has decided to increase his teaching activities, by means of creating International teaching programs. His original method of teaching brought to him the nomination as the Artistic Director of the Associazione Musicale Arturo Toscanini, in Taranto, Italy.<\/span><\/p>\n There, besides a number of Masterclasses, he founded the singing Accademia L\u00edcia Albanese (2023), to honor the famous Soprano, who was his first Vocal Mentor.<\/p>\n In 2024, he changed to the Associazione \u201cVox in Arte\u201d, in Rome, as their Artistic Counselor for International Relations. Since 2024, he has also been acting as Aristic Counselor for the Asociaci\u00f3n Cultural Aranjuez 2050 (in Aranjuez, Spain), where he actively participates in the organization and execution of the \u201cJornadas Farinelli\u201d.<\/p>\n He also teaches privately in N\u00fcrnberg, Germany.<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]
\nAs a result, through a cooperation with the South Korean Province of Jeju, they realized the World Premiere of the Requiem 4.3. \u201cRequiem per la Pace\u201d, in Rome, 2025.
\nIn the same year, an \u201cAdvanced Opera Studio\u201d of Puccini\u2019s La Boh\u00e8me came to life.
\nUnder his Coordination, the students performed that opera three times, with orchestra, at the Teatro Vignoli.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.ricardotamura.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Bajazzo-092-2.jpg\")
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