Dinyar Vania
as Mario Cavaradossi

Dinyar Vania, tenor

Dinyar Vania is rapidly emerging as one of the America’s most exciting new talents, whose attributes include a rich lyric voice of astonishing power and beauty.  He has performed as Rodolfo inLa Bohème at New York City Opera, Opera Roanoke, Knoxville Opera and Madison Opera, Meleagros in Mark Adamo’s Lysistrata at New York City Opera, Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor at Syracuse Opera, Cavaradossi in Tosca at Dallas Opera, Nevada Opera Theater and Sacramento Opera and Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly at Cedar Rapids Opera Theater.

He made his debut with Opera Delaware in a Gala Concert followed with his first Alfredo in La Traviata at Opera Cleveland, then again with Metro Lyric Opera under the baton of Anton Coppola. He was a featured soloist in the New York City Opera in The Parks concert series. At the prestigious International Vocal Arts Academy in Tel Aviv (Israel) he performed excerpts from Lucia di Lammermoor under the baton of Maestro Paul Nadler and the New Israeli Chamber Orchestra.

Mr. Vania celebrated his Carnegie Hall debut as tenor soloist in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, as part of a Pakistani Earthquake Relief Concert, and also sang the symphony with the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra. He has also performed holiday concerts with the Naples Philharmonic, Verdi Concerts with the Jasksonville Symphony Orchestra, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra and Verdi Requiem with Dayton Symphony Orchestra.

The beauty of Mr. Vania's voice has garnered him the Artist of the Year Award from Syracuse Opera, First Place in the important Giulio Gari International Vocal Competition, Second Place in the Licia Albanese-Puccini Competition, and he was a semi-finalist in Placido Domingo’s Operalia in Madrid (Spain).

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