“Davide Basso’s Don Ottavio is excellent” — London Unattached' review of Don Giovanni, Mozart - Regents Opera - London - UK (2024)

“It was that mysterious vanishing tenor [...] who lifted the performance to a peak of excellence thanks to the tonal beauty and rock-solid technique of Davide Basso, a UK-based Italian tenor who on this showing deserves a much higher profile” — Opera Magazine — Opera Magazine Read full review "Gothic Opera provided a really excellent cast [...] Tenor Davide Basso combined spinto power with graceful lyrical phrasing as Enrico” — Donizetti Society — Donizetti Society Read full review “Things are complicated by the entry of Corrado’s brother, Enrico, sung by Italian tenor Davide Basso, whose glorious voice and expressive face bring out the full pathos of the unrequited lover. One of the highlights of the piece is the touching duet between Corrado and Enrico, Corrado failing to hear Enrico’s suppressed melancholy” — The Reviews Hub — The Reviews Hub Read full review “Davide Basso provides golden tone, lots of heft when needed, and a fine musical intelligence” — Mark Aspen's review of Maria (2024)

“It was that mysterious vanishing tenor [...] who lifted the performance to a peak of excellence thanks to the tonal beauty and rock-solid technique of Davide Basso, a UK-based Italian tenor who on this showing deserves a much higher profile” — Opera Magazine — Opera Magazine Read full review "Gothic Opera provided a really excellent cast [...] Tenor Davide Basso combined spinto power with graceful lyrical phrasing as Enrico” — Donizetti Society — Donizetti Society Read full review “Things are complicated by the entry of Corrado’s brother, Enrico, sung by Italian tenor Davide Basso, whose glorious voice and expressive face bring out the full pathos of the unrequited lover. One of the highlights of the piece is the touching duet between Corrado and Enrico, Corrado failing to hear Enrico’s suppressed melancholy” — The Reviews Hub — The Reviews Hub's review of Maria de Rudenz, Donizetti - Gothic Opera - London - UK (2024)

“It was that mysterious vanishing tenor [...] who lifted the performance to a peak of excellence thanks to the tonal beauty and rock-solid technique of Davide Basso, a UK-based Italian tenor who on this showing deserves a much higher profile” — Opera Magazine — Opera Magazine Read full review "Gothic Opera provided a really excellent cast [...] Tenor Davide Basso combined spinto power with graceful lyrical phrasing as Enrico” — Donizetti Society's review of Maria de Rudenz, Donizetti - Gothic Opera - London - UK (2024)

“It was that mysterious vanishing tenor [...] who lifted the performance to a peak of excellence thanks to the tonal beauty and rock-solid technique of Davide Basso, a UK-based Italian tenor who on this showing deserves a much higher profile” — Opera Magazine's review of Maria de Rudenz, Donizetti - Gothic Opera - London - UK (2024)

Recently nominated for ‘Best Performance’ at the 2025 Off West End Awards, and praised for his “spinto power” and “graceful lyrical phrasing”, Italian tenor Davide Basso is regularly seen in the UK and Europe performing in opera, oratorio, and recital.

In staged opera productions, Davide has performed the role of Enrico (Maria de Rudenz, Donizetti) with Gothic Opera, Rodolfo (La Bohème, Puccini) and Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni, Mozart) with Regents Opera touring the UK and France, Rodolfo (La Bohème, Puccini) with Cardiff Opera and The Opera Makers (cover) for the 2024 Grimeborn Festival, Nemorino (L’Elisir d’Amore, Donizetti) and Macduff (Macbeth, Verdi) with Tealeaf Opera, Macduff (Macbeth, Verdi) with Uncovered Opera Company, Aeneas (Dido and Aeneas, Purcell) with Opera Asteria, as well as tenor chorus for the Philharmonia Chorus with the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Eamonn Dougan, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vasily Petrenko and Orchestre National de Lille conducted by Alexandre Bloch, Longhope Opera, Random Opera, Scherzo Ensemble and Opéra de Baugé.

As a tenor soloist he has performed in Handel’s Messiah with the Bath Philharmonia conducted by Gavin Carr and with the London Music Collective, and in Verdi’s Requiem, Mendelssohn’s Elijah and Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle with Barts Academic Festival Choir and Orchestra, and performances with the Docklands Sinfonia at Barbican Hall, Halifax Symphony Orchestra, and Italian Orchestras ‘Orchestra Ritmico Sinfonica Italiana’, ‘Silver Symphony Orchestra’ and ‘Casanova Venice Ensemble’.

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