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Lui-Ottavio 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.
Recent engagement highlights for Luiz-Ottavio Faria include: Turandot (Timur) at Coex Center in Seoul, South Korea, , conducted by Placido Domingo, Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny by Kurt Weill (Dreieinigkeitsmoses) at Teatro Regio di Parma and Teatri di Reggio Emilia, conducted by Christopher Franklin and staged by Maestro Henning Brockhaus; and Simon Boccanegra at the Festival de Ópera de A Coruña, Spain.
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.
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Uno puede pensar que Timur es un personaje meramente secundario, hasta que tiene la suerte de encontrarse en la parte a un cantante como Luiz-Ottavio Faria, que con su voz sonora y rotunda, confiere identidad propia a cada frase de la parte, centrando la atención en él cada vez que abre la boca, y descollando en su impresionante despedida a Liú.
MundoClasico.com, Spain (Hugo Alvarez Domínguez) 18 de Octubre 2009
• Luiz-Ottavio Faria hizo un Timur soberbio en lo vocal y en lo escénico; es un bajo dotado de una voz de gran calidad que además emite muy bien.
La Opinion Coruna, Spain (Julio Andrade Malde) 20 de Septiembre 2009
• Bass Luiz-Ottavio Faria and his sonorous voice made the priest Ramfis a power to be reckoned with. (Aida at the Seattle Opera, MCcaw Hall.)
Queen Anne News, Seattle, WA (Maggie Larrick) August 06th, 2008
• Como el rey Timur se presento el brasileño Luiz-Ottavio Faria, con una hermosísima voz de bajo profundo que resonaba por todo el teatro: Otra voz digna de tener en cuenta, además de su agraciada presencia.
Pro Opera - Mexico, (Ximera Sepulveda) January 30th, 2008
• Luiz-Ottavio Faria was captivating as the elder Timur with a rich, warm bass of considerable size. He made a compelling father figure.
Palm Beach Daily News, (R. Spencer Butler) December 09th, 2007
• As Calàf's father Timur, Luíz Ottavio Faría offered the best performance on a strictly vocal basis, deploying a rich bass voice that never lost clarity.
South Florida Sun-Sentinental, (David Fleshler) December 11th, 2007
• Brazilian bass Luiz-Ottavio Faria, as Giovanni da Procida, turned out to be the great surprise of the evening. The voice is wide, well projected and offers easily enough quality: It's powerful at the bottom of the tessitura and has no problems higher up. He is a good interpreter, who was soundly cheered after his rendering of “O tu, Palermo”. A very pleasant surprise, indeed.
MusicWeb International's Worldwide Concert and Opera Reviews, (José M. Irurzun) Teatro Carlo Felice Genoa. October 25th, 2007