Davide Piva

Italian baritone Davide Piva has performed at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and Teatro Goldoni in Florence in roles including Guglielmo in Così fan tutte, Antonio in Le nozze di Figaro, Quinault in Adriana Lecouvreur, Count Ceprano in Rigoletto, and Alcindoro and Benoît in La bohème. His association with the Maggio began during his training at its Opera Academy and continued with roles such as Taddeo in L’italiana in Algeri and Frate Bordone in Fabio Vacchi’s Jeanne Dark.

Mr. Piva’s guest engagements include Don Bartolo in Il barbiere di Siviglia at Teatro Coccia in Novara, Leporello in Don Giovanni at Teatro Sociale in Trento and Angelotti in Tosca at the Musica Riva Festival. He sang Dulcamara in L’elisir d’amore in Viterbo and at the Bregenz Festival in 2026. His work at the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale in Spoleto includes Bettinelli’s La Smorfia and Sarro’s Moschetta e Grullo.

Contemporary opera has taken him from Vittorio Marandola in Hershey Felder’s Il quarto uomo at Teatro Romano in Fiesole to Minosses in David Winkler’s Rossini Perduto at St. Jean’s Theatre in New York in 2025. In 2026 he appeared as Dante in Laura Kaminsky’s Lucidity at Theater Regensburg. Conductors with whom he has worked include Zubin Mehta, Daniel Harding, Gianandrea Noseda, Ingo Metzmacher and Daniele Gatti.

Mr. Piva received the Riccardo Zandonai Prize and Public Award at the 2019 Riccardo Zandonai competition. In 2024 he received Third Prize and the Emotion Prize at Portofino’s CLIP competition and Second Prize at VOX MUTINAE Nicolai Ghiaurov, and was among the winners of the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale’s A. Belli competition in Spoleto.

Born in Riva del Garda, he graduated in 2020 from Conservatorio F. A. Bonporti in Trento, where he studied with Daniela Longhi, with top marks, honours and an honourable mention. He continued his training at the Opera Academy of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino.