Australian Baritone
Daniel Carison
2018 recipient of the German Australian-Opera Grant, Daniel Carison is one of Australia's most promising baritones. A graduate of the University of Melbourne in 2014, Daniel completed his initial operatic training under the guidance of Peter Mander. In 2015 Daniel became the recipient of a scholarship with the Melba Opera Trust, the premier operatic training and business program for singers in the Southern Hemisphere. In 2017, Daniel joined the Melba Opera Trust for a third consecutive year as the recipient of the Ruskin Opera Award and the Paulette Bisley Opera Scholarship, through Dame Nellie Melba Opera Trust.
"Daniel Carison outdoes everyone in matters of seduction. Because a baritone could not sing more versatile and elastic and at the same time act.”
/ Neue Presse - May 15 2022 /
Background
Daniel Carison is one of Australia’s most promising young singers and the principal baritone of the Landestheater Coburg. He is a graduate of the University of Melbourne and between 2015 and 2017 Daniel was the recipient of a number of scholarships with the Melba Opera Trust. In 2018 Daniel relocated to Wiesbaden, Germany to take up a fest contract with the Hessisches Staatstheaterafter becoming the recipient of the German-Australian Opera Grant.
To date, some of Daniel’s operatic credits include: Pandolfe (Cendrillon), Papageno (Die Zauberflöte), Guglielmo (Cosi fan tutte), Masetto (Don Giovanni), Nick Shadow (The Rake’s Progress), Marullo (Rigoletto), Reinmar von Zweter (Tannhäuser), Ned Keene (Peter Grimes), Morales (Carmen) and more.
Whilst being a passionate theatrical performer, Daniel's true affinity lies with Lieder and song. His performance experience is extensive, and he is a highly regarded concert artist in Australia and Germany. His repertoire includes, Songs of Travel (Vaughan Williams), Let us Garlands Bring (Finzi), Six Songs of a Shropshire Lad (Butterworth), Maud (Somervell), Dichterliebe op.48 and Liederkreis op.39 (Schumann) Vier ernste Gesänge (Brahms), Die Winterreise, Die Schöne Müllerin and Schwanengesang (Schubert), An die ferne Geliebte (Beethoven), Chansons Madecasses and Don Quichotte a Dulcinee (Ravel), to name a few.
Daniel is also an extremely passionate performer and exponent of modern music and is known for his compelling singing of Oratorio. In 2014 he was awarded first prize in the Royal Melbourne Philharmonic Aria Competition.
In 2020 Carison, along with his collaborative partner Rhodri Britton became the recipients of a grant with the Deutscher Musikrat. Together in 2020 they founded The Second Golden Age; a song project designed to pay homage to the great English composers whose music has been so unjustly forgotten.
In 2020 Carison moved to Coburg, Germany where he was appointed as the principal baritone of the opera ensemble. In the past season he performed Guglielmo (Così fan tutte), Ramiro (L'heure espagnole) and Nick Shadow (The Rake's Progress) to which the Neue Presse enthusiastically reported: "But in the end the devil, Nick Shadow (Daniel Carison) outdoes everyone in matters of seduction. Because a baritone could not sing more versatile and elastic and at the same time act.”
In the 22/23, Carison could be heard at the Landestheater Coburg and at the Mainfranken Theater Würzburg as Enrico (Lucia di Lammermoor). In 2022 he made his house debut, again in the role of Nick Shadow, as a guest at the Theater Trier.
In 2022 Daniel proudly became the recipient of the Sir Robert William Askin Operatic Scholarship through the Australian Council for the Arts.
In the 2023/24 season, Carison returns to the Landestheater Coburg as Peter Besenbinder (Hansel und Gretel), Fred Graham (Kiss me, Kate) and as the title role in Mozart’s masterpiece, Don Giovanni.