With over 25 years in the performing industry, GRAMMY® award winning tenor David Adams has performed in a variety of settings throughout the United States and Europe. Specializing in the music of Handel, Mozart, and Rossini, roles to his credit include the title character in Acis and Galatea, and Jupiter in Semele, both by Handel. In the works of Mozart, Mr. Adams has sung Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni, Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, Belmonte in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Ferrando in Cosi fan Tutte, and the title role in Idomeneo. From Rossini’s works, he has been highly sought after in portrayals of Almaviva in Il Barbiere di Siviglia. Other Rossini roles include Lindoro in L’Italiana in Algeri, Pirro and Pilade in Ermione, Argirio in Tancredi, as well as Rodrigo and Otello in Otello. American companies where Mr. Adams has been engaged include The Metropolitan Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Opera Orchestra of New York, The Caramoor Festival, New York City Opera, Fort Worth Opera, Wolf Trap Opera, Opera Memphis, Mississippi Opera, The Kansas City Symphony, The Kansas City Chamber Orchestra, Shreveport Opera, Syracuse Opera, Opera Birmingham, Houston’s Orchestra X, Augusta Opera, and Opera Southwest.
On the concert stage, Mr. Adams has performed many of the major works of Bach, including both the Evangelist and Tenor Soloist in the St. Matthew Passion, and Tenor Soloist in St. John’s Passion, Magnificat, and the B Minor Mass. Other oratorio credits include work as soloist in Orff’s Carmina Burana, Mendelssohn’s Elijah and Saint Paul, Haydn’s Creation, Beethoven’s Mass in C, Handel’s Messiah, Esther, and Saul, and the Verdi Requiem. Mr. Adams’ variety of concert performance opportunities include soloist work in Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Alice Tully Hall, and various halls throughout the country and in Europe. Mr. Adams received critical recording acclaim for his work with Kansas City Chorale and Kantorei of Kansas City. He may be heard as the Celebrant in Rachmaninov’s Liturgy of Saint John of Crysostum on a critically acclaimed recording of the work by the Kansas City Chorale for Nimbus Records.