bio
The Brazilian bass Luiz-Ottavio Faria, native of Bom Sucesso, in Rio de Janeiro, studied singing with Fernando Teixeira, Nilze Mirian Vianna, Simon Estes, and Benjamin Mathews. He graduated from 'The Juilliard School of Music' in New York and also attended the 'Escola de Música Villa-Lobos', the 'Brazilian Conservatory of Music', and the 'University of Rio de Janeiro', as well as the 'American Institute of Music Studies' (AIMS) in Austria.
Luiz-Ottavio Faria's world debut occurred in Verdi's opera "Un Ballo in Maschera" in the role of Tommaso, alongside tenor Carlo Bergonzi and baritone Fernando Teixeira, at the Theatro Municipal of Rio de Janeiro, with an extended season to the Theatro Municipal of São Paulo. Later, he sang roles such as Commendatore (Don Giovanni), Ramfis (Aida), Sparafucile (Rigoletto), Sarastro (Die Zauberflute), Colline (La Boheme), Banquo (Macbeth), Oroveso (Norma) Zaccaria (Nabucco), and Timur (Turandot).
In 2018, he performed Jacopo Fiesco in the opera Simon Boccanera at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna in Italy, and in May of the same year, he was Zaccaria in Nabucco at the Montpellier Theater in France.
In 2019, he was Timur in Turandot at the Opera de Toulon, France. He was in Oman, on the Arabian Peninsula, performing Sarastro in Mozart's The Magic Flute with musical direction by Diego Fasolis and stage direction by Davide Livermore. He also sang Don Carlo at the Colon Theatre in La Coruña, Spain, alongside Italian bass Ferruccio Furlanetto.
Still in 2019, he was in Brazil to perform Sparafucile in Verdi's Rigoletto, conducted by Roberto Minczuk and directed by Jorge Takla at the Theatro Municipal in São Paulo, sang in a new production of Takla's Rigoletto at the Teatro Solis in Montevideo, Uruguay, under the baton of Martin Jorge, and participated in the 22nd Amazonas Opera Festival, performing Don Ruy Gomes in the concert version of Verdi's Ernani at the Teatro Amazonas, under the baton of Luiz Fernando Malheiro.
In January 2020 in Muscat, Sultanate of Oman, he performed Sarastro in Mozart's The Magic Flute with the Italian chamber group I Barocchisti at the Royal Opera House Muscat. He also sang in Portugal performing Stromminger from the opera La Wally at the São Carlos Theatre in Lisbon, in a concert form with Musical Direction by Antonio Pirolli.
In 2021, Faria joins the cast of I Puritani at the A Coruña Opera Festival in Spain, performs Sparafucile in Rigoletto with the National Opera of Montpellier under the Musical Direction of Roderick Cox in France, and portrays Trulove in the cast of The Rake's Progress at the Theatro Municipal de São Paulo.
In May 2022, he sings Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Jader Bignamini.