Joseph Dahdah

Joseph Dahdah was born in Zgharta, Lebanon  in 1992. Besides Arabic, he speaks French, English, Italian and Spanish  fluently and also sings in German, Ukrainian and Russian.

He started  studying singing and piano at the age of 12.

When he arrived  in Italy, he continued his studies first in Rome with Raina Infantino and  then at the Istituto Superiore di Studi Musicali Briccialdi in Terni, where  he obtained a three-year 1st level diploma and a 2nd level diploma in opera  singing with 110/lode under the guidance of mezzo soprano Ambra Vespasiani.

Joseph has  participated in numerous masterclasses with, among others, Richard Barker,  Luca Salsi, Eva Mei, Bruno de Simone and Tatiana Chivarova. She has sung  numerous operas, oratorio concerts and festivals in Lebanon, Italy, Germany  Venezuela, Poland, the Czech Republic and Bulgaria. He then joined the  Accademia del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino.

He made his debut  in Umberto Giordano's Siberia (Sergeant) at the Teatro del Maggio, conducted  by Gianandrea Noseda; I due Foscari (Barbarigo) alongside Placido Domingo at  the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Aida (Radamès) in a production for children  by Venti Lucenti in the Cavea of the Maggio theatre, Ariadne auf Naxos (Ein  Uffizier), Il trovatore (Un messo), Ernani (Don Riccardo), Don Carlo (Royal  Herald and Count of Lerma) conducted by Daniele Gatti, Doktor Faust (Soldier  and Herzog von Parma) by Ferruccio Busoni, conducted by Cornelius Meister, La  Traviata (Gastone) conducted by Zubin Mehta.

Among His recent and future engagements: tenor  soloist in I.F. Stravinsky's Pulcinella conducted by Daniele Gatti, A.  Bruckner's Te Deum and Cassio in G. Verdi's Otello both conducted by Zubin  Mehta, the debut as Radames at the Immlin Festival, La Vestale in Jesi, Piacenza, Pisa and Ravenna, his debut at Teatro Regio in Torino in PIque Dame.

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