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Baritone Gideon Dabi continues to receive great acclaim delivering “powerfully felt, beautifully performed and articulated” performances across a wide array of genres and styles. His “earnest interpretations” have thrilled audiences throughout the United States, to Israel, Italy, and back again. This season, Gideon made his company debut with the Northern Lights Music Festival as Dandini in La Cenerentola. He was a featured singer on Full Frontal with Samantha Bee and has upcoming roles with American Opera Projects. He was recently invited to perform on American Lyric Theater’s Alumni Celebration Concert, in which he was heard singing the music of Gerald Cohen and Clint Borzoni. In the 2018-19 Season, he returned to The Dallas Opera as Schaunard in La bohème, following his debut with the company in Carmen as Morales the previous season. He has spent multiple seasons with Sarasota Opera where he has been heard in his role debut as Dr. Malatesta in Don Pasquale and as Schaunard. With the Ash Lawn Opera, he has appeared in Amahl and the Night Visitors and sung the role of Sir James in the east coast premiere of Middlemarch in Spring. He made his Tulsa Opera debut in 2019-20 in Carmen as Morales. Additionally, he can be heard every week on the video podcast and talkshow, "Dabi and Costello," with co-host and tenor Stephen Costello.
In the 2017-18 season, he made his debut with Opera Colorado in the world premiere of Gerald Cohen’s Steal a Pencil for Me and sang Morales in Carmen with the Rochester Philharmonic. Other engagements include Carousel and La bohème with Charlottesville/Ash Lawn Opera, as well as singing Valentin in Faust and Dreieinigkeitsmoses (Trinity Moses) in Dona Vaughn’s production of Aufstieg und der Fall der Stadt Mahagonny. Previously, Gideon appeared in the New York Times-voted “Best of the Year” production of John Corigliano’s The Ghosts of Versailles (directed by Jay Lesenger) for which he was hailed by the New York Times as a “standout among a winning cast.” Feast of Music said, “Beaumarchais was brilliantly played by Gideon Dabi, whose rich baritone traversed both the comedy and sadness of the character’s journey.” Also performed that season were the roles of Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte with Manhattan School of Music Opera (directed by Dona Vaughn, conducted by Israel Gursky), Valentin in Gounod’s Faust (directed by Carol Castel), as well as several recitals. In 2011, Gideon was an Apprentice Artist with Chautauqua Opera, singing Verdi’s Luisa Miller, Mozart’s Magic Flute, and concerts with the Chautauqua Symphony under the direction of Stephen Osgood and Stuart Chafetz. His work with the company garnered him the prestigious Chautauqua Opera Guild Apprentice Artist Award.
At the Boston University Opera Institute, Gideon had the honor of working with such fine directors as Sharon Daniels, Beth Greenberg, and Jim Petosa to sing the title role of Il barbiere di Siviglia, the baritone in Postcard from Morocco, and the unique honor of premiering Act II of Jorge Martin’s Before Night Falls. While in Boston, Gideon graced the stage of Symphony Hall as soloist for Maestro Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops Symphony Orchestra. A first-generation Iraqi-American fluent in Hebrew, Gideon was a soloist for Naxos’ Grammy Award-winning Anthology of Jewish- American Composers recordings. Gideon received his degree in Voice Performance from Rutgers University where he performed such roles as Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro), Zuniga (Carmen), and Mr. Gobineau (The Medium). He received a master’s in music from Manhattan School of Music where he was heard as the Marquis de la Force (Dialogues des Carmélites) as well as the Earl of Dunmow in Lennox Berkeley’s A Dinner Engagement for which the New York Times found him “very appealing.”
"Gideon Dabi was big of voice and gesture as Dr. Malatesta....outstanding."Edward Alley Your Observer
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"Gideon Dabi prepared the way for “Fiddler” and its moving ending with a powerfully felt, beautifully performed and articulated 'Lifetime.'"Anthony Bannon The Chautauquan Daily
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"Don Alfonso [was] sung and played with great authority and power by Gideon Dabi."Howard Kissel The Huffington Post
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"The playwright and Antoinette’s love interest, Beaumarchais, was brilliantly played by Gideon Dabi, whose rich baritone traversed both the comedy and sadness of his character’s journey."Michael Cirigliano Feast of Music
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"Gideon Dabi as Beaumarchais....[was] a standout...among a winning ensemble."Anthony Tommasini The New York Times
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Past Performances
Ruggiero Leoncavallo
Zaza, piccola zingara
Gideon Dabi
from Merola Grand Finale 2014
San Francisco Opera Orchestra
Ari Pelto
LISTENcarmen tulsa
carmen (dallas opera)
merola
steal a pencil for me
don pasquale
rise and fall of the city of mahagonny, 2013
ghosts of versailles, 2012
cosi fan tutte, 2011
chautauqua opera, 2011
publicity photos
misc
'Vorrei dir...' Act 1, Cosi fan tutte
Cosi fan tutte, Act I Recit