Diego Godoy

Tenor

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Diego Godoy was born in Chile and is currently based in France. He has a warm and powerful spinto Tenor with shiny top notes.
A highlight in 2024 among others he performed Manrico in Il Trovatore by Verdi at Staatstheater Braunschweig Bugplatz Festival.
Diego began his musical career at the age of 14 in Chile. He first studied with Maestro Rodrigo Tapia, then with mezzo-soprano Graciela Araya at the Ramon Vinay Opera Study Center.
He won the Young Artist Prize at the International Lyricm Singing Competition of Trujillo (Peru) and made his debut in the role of Benvolio in Gounod’s Romeo and Juliet at the National Opera of Chile. Three years later, he performed the role of Azaël in Debussy’s The Prodigal Son at the Sakrale Oper in Berlin and Ferrando in Mozart’s Così fan tutte at the Queen’s Hall Theatre in Trinidad and Tobago. That same year, he joined the Opera Studio of the Opéra Nationaldfu Rhin, where he debuted several roles under the guidance of Sylvie Valayre, Umberto Finazzi, and Lionel Sarrazin.
He later won the International Competition of French Opera of U.P.M.C.F. in Paris. Today, he continues to perform leading roles in operas ranging from Donizetti to Verdi, as well as in French romantic opera such as Bizet (Don José) and Gounod (Romeo).
He has sung in internationally renowned theaters and venues such as the Bolshoi in Moscow; Salle Gaveau, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, and La Seine Musicale in France;
Teatro di San Carlo di Napoli, Teatro dell’Opera di Firenze, Teatro Donizetti di Bergamo, Teatro Bellini di Catania, and Teatro Verdi di Pisa in Italy; Wiener Konzerthaus and the Opera Theater of Innsbruck in Austria; and the Royal Opera House Muscat in Oman.
In 2022, he performed in Verdi’s I due Foscari alongside Plácido Domingo and was a guest soloist at soprano Nadine Sierra’s concert at Salle Gaveau in Paris.
The year 2023 marked a milestone in his career, portraying the role of the Duke of Mantua in Verdi’s Rigoletto at the Cairo Opera in Egypt, then Don José in Bizet’s Carmen at La Seine Musicale (France), and making his debut as Manrico (Il Trovatore), the title role in Verdi’s Trovatore, at the Japan Opera Festival. He also participated in the world premiere of the opera La vida es sueño by Calderón de La Barca in the hometown of Miguel de Cervantes, Alcalá de Henares, for the Iberian Festival of Performing Arts. Additionally, he made his debut at the prestigious Festival of Orange in France as a guest soloist at the ‘Musiques en fête’ gala and was part of the tribute for the 100th anniversary of the famous Italian tenor Enrico Caruso.
He continued an extraordinary year with two more productions of Trovatore in Italy (Teatro Marrucino di Chieti and Teatro Comunale di Modena), where he achieved the first encores of his career with Di quella pira; Carmen by Bizet at Teatro delle Muse di Ancona; and Maria Stuarda by Donizetti at the National Theatre of Bratislava in Slovakia.