David Serero | |
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David Serero in 2014
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Background information | |
Born |
Paris, France |
22 April 1981
Genres | Opera, Broadway Musicals, Jazz |
Occupation(s) | Singer, actor |
Website | davidserero |
David Serero (born 22 April 1981) is a French baritone opera singer, actor, producer and philanthropist. He has played more than 1,000 concerts worldwide, and has performed lead roles in opera, theater and musicals such as Shylock (Merchant of Venice), Othello (Othello), Nabucco (Nabucco), Don Quixote (Man of La Mancha), Escamillo (Carmen), Enrico (Lucia di Lammermoor), Amonasro (Aida), the title roles of Don Giovanni and Rigoletto and starred in more than 100 films and TV series. In 2017, David Serero is honored in the Who's Who America for outstanding achievement in the entertainment world and for his contribution for the betterment of contemporary society.
Born in Paris, Serero studied jazz piano at the American School of Modern Music and at the Bill Evans Piano Academy in Paris. He graduated from both of these schools as a pianist and arranger. He lived in New York from 2001 to 2003, where he studied singing with teachers from Broadway and from the Metropolitan Opera and acting at the H.B Studio where he played Stanley from A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, Uncle Louie from Lost in Yonkers by Neil Simon and Marc Anthony from Julius Caesar by Shakespeare. Serero moved to St Petersburg, Russia, to study at the Rimsky Korsakov Music Conservatory where he made his debut as Scarpia (Tosca) and Germont (La Traviata). Following these performances, he was invited by Valery Gergiev to be part of the Young Singers Academy of the Mariinsky Theater.