Venezuelan tenor, Alain Damas, renowned for his musical expressiveness, recently gained critical acclaim for his portray of the title role in Don Gil de Alcalá by Manuel Penella at the Festival de Zarzuela de Canarias, where the performances were conducted by Giancarlo del Monaco and Jorge Rubio. Other engagements in 2010 and 2011 include Beethoven’s 9th with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Radio Televisión Española, under the baton of Pablo Mielgo, Tebaldo in I Capuleti e i Montecchi at Madrid’s Festival de Otoño, Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia with the Orquesta Filarmónica Mediterránea, a solo recital in the Sala Gayarre at the Teatro Real Madrid, Alfredo in La Traviata at the Teatro Nuevo Alcalá and as Gustavo in Jacinto Guerrero’s Los Gavilanes at the San Marcial Festival.
In recent years, Alain Damas has successfully interpreted many roles of the lyric repertoire, such as Mozart’s Ferrando, Don Ottavio, Gomatz (Zaide) and Bastien (Bastien und Bastienne), Monteverdi’s Nerone (L’incoronazione di Poppea) and Apollo (Orfeo), de Falla’s Paco (La vida Breve) and Maese Pedro (El retablo de maese Pedro) as well as Rinuccio, Nemorino, Werther and Fenton. In 2008 he debuted at the Teatro de la Zarzuela as Calixto in La Celestina by Joaquin Nin-Culmell. He also performed in Austrian operetta such as Johann Strauß’ Eine Nacht in Venedig, where he sang the role of the Herzog, which marked his debut at the Teatro de Cristóbal Colón Bogotá in 2002. His professional opera debut was in 1994 at the Bayreuther Festspiele, where he sang one of the Vier brabantische Edle in Wagner’s Lohengrin.