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David Daniels

One of the most important countertenors to emerge late in the 20th century, David Daniels is known for the strength and rounded fullness of his voice. He was also a prominent educator until he faced sexual assault charges, to one of which he subsequently pleaded guilty. Daniels was born in Spartanburg, South Carolina, on March 12, 1966. His parents were both voice teachers; his father taught in a summer program connected to Converse College in Spartanburg, and his mother was an opera singer. Daniels began his singing career as a boy soprano, switching to tenor after his voice broke. He earned a degree from the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music as a tenor, but as a graduate student at the University of Michigan, where his teacher was George Shirley, he switched to countertenor singing. Beginning to explore the Baroque repertory for the countertenor voice, he appeared with several different companies in the role of Nero in Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea; these included the Florida Grand Opera, the Glimmerglass Opera, and in 1996, the Brooklyn Academy of Music. That year, he also made his debut with England's Glyndebourne Festival Opera as Didymus in Handel's Theodora in a production directed by famed theatrical innovator Peter Sellars. In the late '90s, Daniels recorded two albums of Alessandro Scarlatti cantatas with conductor Nicholas McGegan on the Conifer label, and in 1998, he moved to Erato for an album of Handel arias. As his voice developed, Daniels was seen as one of the strongest members of a crop of new countertenors performing in a forceful style free of the typical hooty sound of earlier exponents of this voice range. Of his Nero performance, the Wall Street Journal opined that he "brought down the house with ferocious coloratura." He often appeared in the most prominent 20th century countertenor role, Oberon in Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream, making his London debut in that part with the English National Opera. His repertory includes big Handel countertenor roles such as Tamerlano, Xerxes, and Jephtha (he made his Salzburg Festival debut in the latter), Sesto in Giulio Cesare (his Metropolitan Opera debut role in 1999) and, in concert, an unusual selection of works ranging from Baroque to Britten and including such composers as Debussy, Gounod, and Massenet. In 1997, he became the first countertenor to win the coveted Richard Tucker Award. Daniels released several more solo albums, including a 2008 release on Erato of Bach sacred arias and cantatas, and appeared on various opera recordings, such as a Glyndebourne production of Handel's Theodora in 2012 and a production of Gluck's Orfeo in 2018. From 2015 to 2020, he was on the faculty of the University of Michigan, but he was dismissed after several charges of sexual assault against him and his husband, conductor Scott Walters, and his arrest on one of those charges in January of 2019. On August 4, 2023, Daniels and Walters pleaded guilty to assault charges in Houston, Texas, stemming from a 2010 incident. The guilty plea enabled Daniels to avoid prison time, and he has announced the intention to resume his career.
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