Australia’s leading tenor is at the forefront of a new generation of singers. Acclaimed throughout the world for his beautiful lyric voice, strong stage presence and remarkable agility he is in demand internationally on both concert and operatic stages.

Steve Davislim began his professional career as an ensemble member of the Zurich Opera, where his numerous roles included Almaviva/BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA, Camille/MERRY WIDOW, Tamino/MAGIC FLUTE, The Painter/LULU under Franz Welser-Möst, Don Ottavio/DON GIOVANNI and Ferrando/COSÌ FAN TUTTE with Nikolaus Harnoncourt and The Prince in Heinz Holliger’s SCHNEEWITTCHEN (Snowwhite).

He also appeared at the State Opera Berlin and in Dresden (Almaviva, Tamino, Don Ottavio, Tom Rakewell/THE RAKE’S PROGRESS), State Opera Vienna (Tamino), Hamburg Opera (Lensky/ONEGIN, Tom Rakewell, Almaviva), Royal Opera House Covent Garden (Fenton/FALSTAFF), The Australian Opera in Sydney (Don Ottavio, Lensky, David/MEISTERSINGER), at the Châtelet Paris, Endimione/L’ARBORE DI DIANA at the Liceu Barcelona and at the Montpellier Festival. In Caen and London in the title role in Weber’s Oberon (with subsequent CD recording), Lyric Opera Chicago and the MET (at both Pedrillo/ENTFÜHRUNG), the Salzburg Festival (Pong/TURANDOT) and at the Deutsche Oper Berlin (Zemlinsky’s TRAUMGÖRGE).

A turning point in his career was his interpretation of Idomeneo at the opening of La Scala di Milano in December 2005 under Daniel Harding. He was subsequently invited back to La Scala in 2007 to sing the title role in the world premiere of TENEKE by Fabio Vacchi under Roberto Abbado and Tamino in 2011.

Recent appearances include Baron Kronthal/WILDSCHÜTZ (Lortzing) as well as Tamino in Dresden, Tom Rakewell in Helsinki, Britten’s WAR REQUIEM in Philadelphia and Ferrando in Geneva.

Steve Davislim is also regularly invited to the concert stages all over the world, recently and upcoming for works such as Schnittke’s FAUST CANTATA at the Musikverein Vienna, Beethoven’s SYMPHONY NO. 9 (with LSO/Haitink, in Vienna, Hamburg, Baden-Baden/Rattle, at the Styriarte Graz and the Salzburg Festival, both under Orozco-Estrada, in Paris, Montpellier, Berlin Philharmonic, all the radio orchestras of Germany; and also at the BBC Proms, Lucerne Festival, Leipzig/Nelsons and Sydney), Bruckner’s TE DEUM under Muti in Chicago, DAS LIED VON DER ERDE in Bordeaux, performances of MESSIAH with the Melburne New Zealand Symphony Orchestras, MISSA SOLEMNIS (he stepped in twice in July 2016 at the Rheingau Music Festival and in Karlsruhe, both under Orozco-Estrada), Mendelssohn’s ELIAS in Leipzig, Beethoven’s SYMPHONY NO. 9 in Sydney, Paris and Leipzig, etc.

He has worked with such esteemed conductors as Claudio Abbado, Yuri Ahronovitch, Riccardo Chailly, Sir Colin Davis, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Adam Fischer, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Valery Gergiev, Michael Gielen, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Bernard Haitink, Thomas Hengelbrock, Philippe Herreweghe, René Jacobs, Armin and Philippe Jordan, Lorin Maazel, Marc Minkowski, Riccardo Muti, Andris Nelsons, Sir Roger Norrington, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Antonio Pappano, Michel Plasson, Sir Georg Solti, Jeffrey Tate, Christian Thielemann, Marcello Viotti, Franz Welser-Möst, and David Zinman.

His recordings: Brahms’ RINALDO/ Michel Plasson (EMI), Holliger’s SCHNEEWITTCHEN (ECM), Beethoven’s CHRISTUS AM ÖLBERGE, Mozart’s REQUIEM (Opus 111), Tippett’s A CHILD OF OUR TIME/ Colin Davis (LSO Live), Rossini’s PETITE MESSE SOLENNELLE, Martin’s VIN HERBÉ, Haydn’s SCHÖPFUNG (Harmonia Mundi) and Martinu’s JULIETTA/ Charles Mackerras (Supraphon). On Melba: Richard Strauss’ Songs with orchestra/ Simone Young, Saint-Saëns’ Hélène and Nuit Persane, Britten’s Folksongs, Schubert’s WINTERREISE. Some recordings on DG: Händel’s LOTARIO and RODELINDA/ Alan Curtis, Bach Cantatas/ Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Mozart’s REQUIEM/ Christian Thielemann etc.

Among Steve Davislim’s future engagements: Beethoven’s CHRISTUS AM OELBERG in Innsbruck, Bonn, Antwerpen and Amsterdam, DIE WALPURGISNACHT, conducted by Thomas Hengelbrock in Paris and ELIAS in Zurich, Dvorak’s STABAT MATER in Berlin as well as Mozart’s C-MOLL-MESSE in Munich, Augsburg and Würzburg.