{"id":1845,"date":"2022-08-15T16:01:42","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T14:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csam.tobetold.film\/?p=1845"},"modified":"2025-09-08T14:19:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T12:19:28","slug":"cameron-shahbazi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csam.tobetold.film\/en\/artists\/countertenor-artist\/cameron-shahbazi\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameron Shahbazi"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rising countertenor Cameron Shahbazi, praised for his \u201cfull, voluminous\u201d voice and \u201cpersonal and beautiful\u201d timbre (De Trouw<\/em>), is celebrated for his acclaimed interpretations of both baroque and contemporary music. In 2023, he was awarded the prestigious Opus Klassik Award in the \u2018Innovative Concert of the Year\u2019 category for his brainchild entitled \u201cWoman.Life.Freedom.\u201d, a benefit concert at Oper Frankfurt produced in support of human rights in Iran.<\/p>\n

The 2025-26 season marks numerous exciting debuts for Cameron Shahbazi. The countertenor makes his much-anticipated house debut at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sof\u00eda in Valencia as Tolomeo in Handel\u2019s Giulio Cesare<\/em><\/strong>, as role he later reprises in his company debut with the Deutsche Oper Berlin. Building on the great success of George Benjamin\u2019s new opera Picture a day like this <\/em><\/strong>staged by Daniel Jeanneteau and Marie-Christine Soma, Shahbazi twice presents the acclaimed interpretation: at Teatro di San Carlo in Naples and at Oper K\u00f6ln. Together with Orchestra Les Accents the countertenor takes the title role in Vivaldi\u2019s Tamerlano <\/em><\/strong>at Auditorio Nacional de M\u00fasica in Madrid and at M\u00fcpa Budapest. Further, Shahbazi makes his first appearance in South America at Teatro Municipal de Lima in Peru in Velasco\u2019s La P\u00farpura de la Rosa<\/em><\/strong>, the first known opera composed and performed in the Americas. In recital with pianist Sophia Mu\u00f1oz, Cameron Shahbazi presents his program Warsaw Sessions <\/em><\/strong>at Bayer Kultur in Leverkusen.<\/p>\n

Highlights of Cameron Shahbazi\u2019s recent seasons include his house debuts at the Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona as Tolomeo in Giulio<\/em><\/strong> Cesare<\/em><\/strong> in a production by Calixto Bieto, <\/em><\/strong>at the Vancouver Opera as The Refugee in Jonathan Dove\u2019s Flight,<\/em><\/strong> and at the Royal Opera House in London where he debuted Hamor in Handel\u2019s Jephta. <\/em><\/strong>He was heard as Tolomeo in Giulio Cesare<\/em><\/strong> in new productions at Glyndebourne Festival (David McVicar) and at Dutch National Opera (Calixto Bieto) in Amsterdam under the baton of Emmanuelle Ha\u00efm. Cameron Shahbazi made his company debut with the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich as Anfinomo in Il ritorno\/The Year of Magical Thinking<\/em><\/strong>, a new production of Monteverdi\u2019s opera combined with text by renowned American writer Joan Didion. At Festival Aix-en-Provence, the countertenor was featured in the world premiere of Picture a Day Like This <\/em><\/strong>by George Benjamin. With this production he later made his house debut at the Linbury Theater in London, which was subsequently nominated for an Olivier Award. Further performances of Picture a Day Like This include: at the Op\u00e9ra Comique in Paris, Op\u00e9ra national du Rhin, and at the Grand Th\u00e9\u00e2tre de Luxembourg. With short notice, Cameron Shahbazi jumped in as Tolomeo (Tolomeo, Re di Egitto<\/em><\/strong>) with the Basel Chamber Orchestra for two concerts at Amsterdam\u2019s Concertgebouw and the Palau de la M\u00fasica Catalana in Barcelona.<\/p>\n

A sought-after concert performer, Shahbazi was heard as soloist in Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana<\/em><\/strong> with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Pergolesi\u2019s Stabat Mater<\/em><\/strong> with Orchestre de l\u2019Op\u00e9ra Royal in Versailles, and George Benjamin\u2019s acclaimed Dream of the Song<\/em><\/strong> for countertenor and female chorus with the G\u00fcrzenich Orchestra in Cologne. Following the invitation to the Leipzig Bach Festival, the countertenor paid tribute to the genius composer in a grand open-air gala alongside Lang Lang, Daniel Hope, and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. He returned to his native Canada to sing Handel\u2019s Messiah <\/em><\/strong>at Toronto\u2019s Koerner Hall, and with the Orchestre National de Lille he performed George Benjamin\u2019s Written on Skin <\/em><\/strong>in concert under the baton of Alexandre Bloch. The countertenor presented solo recitals under the auspices of Oper Frankfurt with pianist Malcolm Martineau and at the Paris Sainte Chapelle Opera Festival with pianist Jeff Cohen.<\/p>\n

In season 24\/25 Cameron Shahbazi and pianist Sophia Mu\u00f1oz, presented Warsaw Sessions<\/em><\/strong>, a recital concept reinterpreting familiar and unfamiliar music in a journal-like setting, fusing musical styles and genres from Henry Purcell to Louis Armstrong complimented by baroque arias and Iranian melodies.<\/p>\n

Further highlights include his debut at Oper Frankfurt as Oberon in a new production of A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream<\/em><\/strong> and his involvement at Internationale Handel-Festspiele Karlsruhe where he took on the title role in Tolomeo, re d\u2019Egitto<\/em><\/strong> in a production by Benjamin Lazar. In 2021, Shahbazi gave his Russian debut as Tolomeo in Giulio Cesare<\/em><\/strong> with the Moscow Chamber Ensemble, conducted by Christopher Moulds. His portrayal of First Angel\/Boy in George Benjamin’s opera Written on Skin<\/em><\/strong> at Oper K\u00f6ln under Fran\u00e7ois-Xavier Roth earned the countertenor unanimous critical acclaim. Also in Cologne, the countertenor sang Guildenstern in a new production of composer Brett Dean’s Hamlet<\/em><\/strong> under the baton of Duncan Ward. As an associate artist of the Dutch National Opera Studio in the 2019\/20 season, he created the role of Sergey Diaghilev in Willem Jeth\u2019s new opera Ritratto<\/em><\/strong>, which was one of The Guardian<\/em>\u2019s top picks of opera and classical concerts to watch during the first COVID-19 lockdown. Further performances include the role of Disinganno in Handel’s Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno<\/em><\/strong> at Theater Aachen, and the title role in Cavalli\u2019s Il Giasone<\/em><\/strong> for Opera NEO.<\/p>\n

Cameron Shahbazi has received distinguished international honors such as the Sylva Gelber Award (2021), the Walter Prsytawski Prize (2021) and the Dame Kiri Te Kanawa Foundation Award (2019). He was a finalist at the 2019 Veronica Dunne International Singing Competition, was awarded the Royal Opera House Covent Garden Prize at the 2018 International Belvedere Competition, Second Prize at Innsbruck\u2019s Cesti Competition in 2018, and top prizes at the 2017 Op\u00e9ra Avignon Jeunes Espoirs Competition.<\/p>\n

Hamilton-born, Shahbazi is an alumnus of the University of Toronto and Conservatorium van Amsterdam, and a grateful recipient of grants from the Jacqueline Desmarais Foundation and Staetshuys Fonds.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 CSAM GmbH, August 2025<\/p>\n

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Rising countertenor Cameron Shahbazi, praised for his \u201cfull, voluminous\u201d voice and \u201cpersonal and beautiful\u201d timbre (De Trouw), is celebrated for his acclaimed interpretations of both baroque and contemporary music. In 2023, he was awarded the prestigious Opus Klassik Award in the \u2018Innovative Concert of the Year\u2019 category for his brainchild entitled \u201cWoman.Life.Freedom.\u201d, a benefit concert at Oper Frankfurt produced in support of human rights in Iran.<\/p>\n

The 2025-26 season marks numerous exciting debuts for Cameron Shahbazi. The countertenor makes his much-anticipated house debut at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sof\u00eda in Valencia as Tolomeo in Handel\u2019s Giulio Cesare, as role he later reprises in his company debut with the Deutsche Oper Berlin. Building on the great success of George Benjamin\u2019s new opera Picture a day like this staged by Daniel Jeanneteau and Marie-Christine Soma, Shahbazi twice presents the acclaimed interpretation: at Teatro di San Carlo in Naples and at Oper K\u00f6ln. Together with Orchestra Les Accents the countertenor takes the title role in Vivaldi\u2019s Tamerlano at Auditorio Nacional de M\u00fasica in Madrid and at M\u00fcpa Budapest. Further, Shahbazi makes his first appearance in South America at Teatro Municipal de Lima in Peru in Velasco\u2019s La P\u00farpura de la Rosa, the first known opera composed and performed in the Americas. In recital with pianist Sophia Mu\u00f1oz, Cameron Shahbazi presents his program Warsaw Sessions at Bayer Kultur in Leverkusen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4175,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-countertenor-artist"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csam.tobetold.film\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csam.tobetold.film\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csam.tobetold.film\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csam.tobetold.film\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csam.tobetold.film\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1845"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/csam.tobetold.film\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9764,"href":"https:\/\/csam.tobetold.film\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845\/revisions\/9764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csam.tobetold.film\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csam.tobetold.film\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csam.tobetold.film\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csam.tobetold.film\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}