The Music Conservatory

David Holloway, voice
The Music Conservatory Faculty

David Holloway joined the Voice Faculty at Chicago College of Performing Arts after a thirty-year international career in opera. He sang leading roles for seven seasons with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City; and for ten years, he was leading baritone at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf/Duisburg, Germany. While based in Europe, Mr. Holloway performed with the opera houses in Aachen, Berlin, Bonn, Cologne, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich, Stuttgart and Monte Carlo. He sang the Toreador in Carmen for two seasons at the Glyndebourne Festival in England.

Mr. Holloway made his New York debut with the New York City Opera as Guglielmo in Cosi fan tutte. He sang with the City Opera for eight seasons altogether, while performing with major opera companies across the United States, including Boston, Central City, Cincinnati, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, Kansas City, New Orleans, Omaha, San Diego, Santa Fe, San Francisco, and Washington D.C. His repertoire of over seventy-five major roles encompasses Figaro in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Figaro and Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro, Giovanni in Don Giovanni, Onegin in Eugene Onegin, Caesar in Julius Caesar, Scarpia in Tosca, Papa Germont in La Traviata, and Rigoletto in Rigoletto.

As Chair of the Performance Department and one of the leading voice teachers at CCPA, Mr. Holloway still makes some major appearances: Most recently, he returned to the Chicago Opera Theater for performances as the Traveler and the six nemesis characters in Benjamin Britten's Death in Venice. He also sang in COT's highly acclaimed production of Comedy on the Bridge of B. Martinu and appeared as Don Alfonso in Cosî fan tutte in 2002. Mr. Holloway continues to perform in recitals and concerts, both in Chicago and around the country. In the fall of 2003, he was featured with bass Samuel Ramey (also a member of the CCPA faculty) singing the duet from I Puritani with the CCPA Orchestra, at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago. In 2007, Mr. Holloway completed his third season as Director of the Apprentice Singers Program with the Santa Fe Opera, one of the most prestigious young artist programs in the U.S.

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David Holloway, voice
CCPA Faculty since 2000