Fabrizio Doria

Fabrizio Doria, tenor, had no intention of ever becoming an artist, until the day his classmates dared him to join the Loara High School Chamber Singers. Despite coming from a non-musical family, Mr. Doria discovered a passion for the fine arts and attended California State University Fullerton where he studied voice under Dr. Mark Goodrich.

In 1999, Mr. Doria moved to Minnesota where he worked under Robert Shaw and Kathy Saltzman Romey. The next year, Mr. Doria found himself again in California, now studying under Julliard degree holder Elisabeth Howard who currently was on faculty at Pepperdine and was president of the Los Angeles chapter of NATS. After transferring to the studio of Fred Carama of the Music Academy of the West, Mr. Doria, earned his first professional operatic role as El Rememdado in Bizet’s Carmen with Goldenwest Opera in 2002. Establishing himself as local artist, he worked for numerous regional opera companies and orchestral ensembles including: The Intimate Opera Company, LA Lyric Opera, LA Jewish Symphony, LA Bach Camarata and the West Coast Opera Theatre.

Later that same year, Mr. Doria studied in Italy at the I malatesta centro di lingua e cultura accademia Italiana dell’opera in Rimini, Italy. The following year he became a Young Artist for Sarasota Opera where he studied the role of Count Almaviva in The Barber of Seville. In 2003, Mr. Doria sang with Albany Symphony Orchestra performing the role of Nemorino in L’Elisir d’amore at the Shaker Mountain Music Festival in the Berkshires; however, his crowning achievement came in 2004 when he was cast in the role of Don Romiro in La Cenerentola. Recently, Mr. Doria has begun to explore more dramatic repertoire including Turridu in Cavalleria Rusticana, Pinkerton in Madam Butterfly, Don Jose in Carmen, Parpignol in Boheme, Ruiz in Il Travatore, and Riccardo in Un Ballo in Maschera.

Mr. Doria enjoys working as an oratorio soloist and has performed Handel’s Messiah; Bach’s Uns ist ein kind geboren, and O ewiges Feuer, O Ursprung der Liebve; Stainer’s The Crucifixion; Saint-Saens Christmas Oratorio; Rossini’s Missa da gloria, Mozart’s “Great” Messe in C Moll, and Missa Brevis in B flat; and Schubert’s Mass in G. His other roles include Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni, Alfredo in La Traviata, Alfred in Die Fledermaus, Beppe in I Pagliacci, Mr. Erlanson in A Little Night Music, and Malcolm in Macbeth, and Lippo Fiorentino from Street Scene.

In 2020 Mr. Doria premiered role with the Manhattan Opera Repertory Ensemble in a new work by Harry Baylor, An Uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto. Future engagements with MORE Opera include: Turridu in Cavalleria Rusticana and Luigi in Il Tabarro, as well as his first skirt role as Arnalta in L’incoronazione di Poppea with the Brooklyn Telemann Chamber Society