Dominique Moralez is one of today's most sought-after young tenors on the international scene. Paris' Le Figaro lauded his "convincing musicality" and Germany's Oberbayerisches Volksblatt noted his "shimmering clear voice with power and sweetness, perfect voix mixte and exquisitely refined pianissimo." Following recent performances of Romeo in Gounod's Romeo et Juliette with Chautauqua Opera, the Chautauqua Daily praised his "captivatingly lyrical and warm" singing, and the "nicely pointed focus" of his "clear, ringing tenor voice" was exclaimed by the Buffalo News.
Mr. Moralez makes his Japanese stage debut in 2006 with the Japan Opera Foundation singing Il Cavaliere Belfiore in Rossini's "Il Viaggio A Reims" with Maestro Alberto Zedda and stage director Emilio Sagi at the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan. Moralez makes his Hong Kong concert debut as Tenor Soloist with the Hong Kong Bach Choir and Orchestra in the Hong Kong premier of Arthur Honegger's "Le Roi David" under the direction of Jerome Hoberman in June 2006.
Moralez's 2004-05 season included the role of Nemorino in L'elisir d'Amore with Shreveport Opera, and an appearance with the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of conductor and violinsit Guillermo Figueroa, in an evening of "Spanish Love Songs". Highlights from his 2003-04 season included his return to Emerald City Opera as Rodolfo in La Boheme and the Duca di Mantua in Rigoletto with the Crested Butte Music Festival. He also sang Messiah with The Voices of Ascension and Berlioz's Roméo et Juiliette with the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra.
During the 2002-03 season, Dominique Moralez was a Resident Artist with Florida Grand Opera, where he sang Beppe in Leoncavallo's Pagliacci and Don Anchise in Mozart's La Finta giardiniera. Mr. Moralez also sang Tamino in Die Zauberflöte with Emerald City Opera and Romeo in Roméo et Juiliette with Chautauqua Opera. He made his German stage debut in 2002 at the Internationales Musikfestival im Chiemgau singing Cassio in Verdi's Otello and Fenton in Otto Nicolai's Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor. He also sang Laertes in a concert version of Ambroise Thomas' Hamlet.
Mr. Moralez's first Tamino in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte came in the landmark 2001 Paris production presented at the Cirque National Alexis Gruss. Conducted by Andreas Stoehr and directed by the late French filmmaker Claude Santelli, it was televised internationally in December 2001 and has also aired in a film version on France 3 television.
Dominique Moralez is especially identified with the role of Ferrando in Mozart's Così fan tutte. He has sung the role at the Festival Musique de l'Orne, the Festival Musique de Toulon, and for the Centre de Formation Lyrique (CFL) at the Opéra National de Paris. While at the Opéra, he sang Spoletta in Puccini's Tosca under the baton of Antanello Allemandi. For CFL, he performed the title role in Handel's Acis & Galatea, Ernesto in Donizetti's Don Pasquale, Nadir in Bizet's Les Pêcheurs de perles and Rodolfo in Puccini's La Bohème. In Rome, Mr. Moralez has sung Alfredo in Verdi's La Traviata at the Teatro Manzoni and Beppe for the New Opera Festival di Roma.
A frequent oratorio and recital artist, Dominique Moralez has been heard in Schubert's Mass in E-flat for the Bowdoin Festival Orchestra in Maine, and Britten's Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings with the Prince William Symphony of Virginia. He has sung Franz von Suppe's Requiem for the Festival Musique de Toulon, the Mozart Requiem and Mendelssohn's St. Paul for the Orchestra Symphonique de Versailles, the Mozart Requiem for the Saison Musique en l'Ile in Paris, and Mozart's "Coronation" Mass and Rossini's Stabat Mater for the Grand Theatre de Reims. He has been guest artist at the Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, NH, where he presented interdisciplinary lectures, a master class, and a recital of Spanish and Russian songs, and served as Italian Language Coach at Catholic University of America for the Opera Department production of Monteverdi's Coronazione di Poppea. Most recently, Moralez has presented several master classes, inclusive of both opera and song literature, at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts.
In addition to two years at the Centre de Formation Lyrique, Moralez received his training at the University of New Mexico and the New England Conservatory of Music.
