Artist Overview
Italian-American tenor Vincent Festa brings a distinctive combination of vocal warmth, expressive immediacy, and dramatic presence to the operatic and concert stage. His singing is distinguished by a luminous lyric timbre, an electrifying upper register, and a natural sensitivity to text and musical line. Based in New York City, he is particularly at home in the bel canto and
French repertoire, as well as in the intimacy and nuance of art song.
Vincent is a graduate of The Juilliard School and Bard College and received additional postgraduate training at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music. He is currently pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts at Stony Brook University. His experience encompasses operatic roles, recitals,
and solo appearances in major choral and orchestral works.
Alongside his performance career, Vincent maintains a private voice studio devoted to the development of healthy, expressive, and technically secure singers. He works with students preparing for college auditions, emerging artists, established professionals, and singers seeking to deepen their technique, musicianship, and artistic confidence.
Opera
Oratorio / Concert
Chamber / Song
Bellini
Elvino - La Sonnambula
Arturo - I Puritani
Bizet
Nadir - Les pêcheurs de perles
Britten
Peter Quint - Turn of the Screw *
Flute - A Midsummer Night's Dream *
Bob Boles - Peter Grimes *
Chabrier
King Ouf - L'étoile *
Donizetti
Arturo - Lucia di Lammermoor *
Edgardo - Lucia di Lammermoor
Ernesto - Don Pasquale *
Gounod
Roméo - Roméo et Juliette
Vincent - Mireille
Mozart
Belmonte - Die Entführung aus dem Serail
Don Ottavio - Don Giovanni
Ferrando - Così fan tutte
Tamino - Die Zauberflöte *
Menotti
Nika Magadoff - The Consul *
Poulenc
Chevalier de la Force- Dialogues des Carmélites
Chaplain - Dialogues des Carmélites *
Rossini
Count Almaviva - Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Ramiro - La Cenerentola
Lindoro - L'Italiana in Algeri
Arthur Sullivan
Nanki-Poo - The Mikado
Strauss
Brighella - Ariadne auf Naxos *
Tanzmeister - Ariadne auf Naxos *
Italian Singer - Der Rosenkavalier
Jew #1 - Salome
Jew #2 - Salome *
Verdi
Fenton - Falstaff
Duke Mantua - Rigoletto
Alfredo Germont - La Traviata
Robert Ward
Giles Corey - The Crucible *
Bach
Tenor Aria Soloist - St. John Passion *
Tenor Aria Soloist - St. Matthew Passion
Tenor Soloist - Christen, ätzet diesen Tag *
Beethoven
Tenor Soloist - Mass in C *
Britten
Saint Nicholas - St. Nicolas *
Tenor Soloist - Les Illuminations , Op. 18
Tenor Soloist - War Requiem
Camille Saint-Saëns
Tenor Soloist - The Oratorio de Noël
Finzi
Tenor Soloist - Dies Natalis
Handel
Tenor Soloist - Messiah *
Mozart
Tenor Soloist - Requiem *
Tenor Soloist - Mass in C minor *
Tenor Soloist - Coronation Mass *
Britten
Michelangelo Sonnets
Canticle I 'My beloved is mine and I am his' Op 40
Canticle III 'Still falls the Rain' Op 55
Beethoven
An die ferne Geliebte, Op. 98,
Faure
La Bonne Chanson, Op. 61
Finzi
Oh Fair to See
Liszt
3 Sonetti del Petrarca *
Schubert
Auf dem Strom D.943 *
Die schöne Müllerin
Viola D.786
Vaughan Williams
On Wenlock Edge *
Songs of Travel