Recent finalist and prize winner at the renowned Belevedere Competition in Vienna, Dan resides in Innsbruck, Austria where he is a member of the Tiroler Landestheater. This season he will sing Cassio in Verdi's OTELLO, Tamino in Mozart's DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE, Orpheus in Offenbach's ORPHEUS IN DER UNTERWELT, and Orsino in Manfred Trojahn's WAS IHR WOLT.
Last season in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Dan participated in the Opera Studio of the International Opera Centrum Nederland (IOCN) in Holland. In the 98/99 season he performed a 10 month European tour as Sou-Chong in DAS LAND DES LACHELNS with the Hoofdstad Operette, Amsterdam. He made his debut with De Nederlandse Opera in PIQUE DAME, and with Vara Radio in their production of Norma. In February, he performed Strauss' ARIADNE again, this time as Scaramuccio for Pacific Opera, Victoria.
An alumni of the prestigious Canadian Opera Company's Ensemble Studio, lyric tenor Dan Chamandy appeared in mainstage productions of Ariadne Auf Naxos, Rigoletto, Turandot (Pang), and was also featured as the Prince in the tour production of CINDERELLA. During the 97/98 season he was heard in the acclaimed Canadian Opera Club (COC) production of Ullman's rarely performed THE EMPEROR OF ATLANTIS (Harlequin) and at the Ford Centre with the COC Orchestra in L'ENFANCE DU CHRIST. Opera Lyra Ottawa engaged his services for the new opera, Gianni and he returned to the nation's capitol for Camille in a gala performance of DIE LUSTIGE WITWE at the National Arts Centre.
He appeared as Satarino and Mercurio in Cavalli's LA CALISTO for the Canadian Opera Company and debuted for Opera Mississauga as Ferrando in COSI FAN TUTTE. Ramiro in Rossini's LA CENERENTOLA for the Calgary Opera tour, Vancouver Opera audiences heard him for the first time as El Remendado in CARMEN. He made his American operatic debut as Nemorino in l'ELISIR D'AMORE for Skylight Opera Theatre of Milwaukee.
An Ontario native, Chamandy received his Bachelor of Music degree from Dalhousie University in Halifax and is also a graduate of the University of Toronto's Opera Division, where he performed a number of roles, notably le Mari in Poulenc's LES MAMELLES DE TIRESIAS and L'Oca in Mozart's L'OCA DEL CAIRO. He won the Ruby Mercer Fellowship in 1993 and the Constance Eberhart Memorial Award as a finalist in the National Opera Association Vocal Competition.
When not busy on the opera stage, Mr. Chamandy has appeared with the Victoria Symphony, the Nederlands Promenade Orkest, the Radio Symphony Orchestra of Holland, the Aldeburgh Connection of Toronto, Symphony Nova Scotia, the Orpheus and Tallis choirs of Toronto, Bel'Arte Singers and the Dalhousie Chorale in works by Beethoven, Bach, Duruflé, Bruckner, Handel, Mendelssohn, and Haydn. On the summer circuit, he was featured in many festivals throughout the Netherlands, and by Quinte Summer Music.
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