Newly Released Cantorial Selections – Cantor David Montefiore
Alfredo remains one of Montefiore’s favorite operatic roles, along with Nemorino, Nadir, Edgardo and the Duke of Mantua. His oratorio performances include Handel’s Messiah and Israel in Egypt, Haydn’s The Creation, Puccini’s Messa di Gloria, Mendelsohn’s Paulus and Mozart’s Coronation Mass.
As Artistic Director and founding member of the American Opera Repertory Company, David Montefiore directed and performed many of the standard operas in New York City.
Montefiore studied voice with Giulio Gari and Milan Petrovic of the Metropolitan Opera, as well as Olga Ryss of the Julliard School of Music. In England, he received a scholarship to study opera repertoire with Maestro Manfredi Argento at La Scala, Milan.
Today, Montefiore is a member of the American Guild of Musical Artists, Actors’ Equity, and a Voting Member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. His recordings of opera and cantorial recitatives are available through his international representatives, BEHAR/BERG, U.S.A.