- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- August 25, 1940
- Place of Birth
- Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium
José van Dam
oseph, Baron Van Damme (born 25 August 1940 in Brussels), known as José van Dam, is a Belgian bass-baritone, described as having "a magnificent resonant and expressive voice" and being "an excellent actor". At the age of 17, he entered the Brussels Royal Conservatory and studied with Frederic Anspach. A year later, he graduated with diplomas and first prizes in voice and opera performance. He made his opera début as the music teacher Don Basilio in Gioacchino Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Paris Opera in 1961, and remained in the company until 1965, when he sang his first major role, Escamillo from Bizet's Carmen. He then sang for two seasons at Geneva, La Scala, Covent Garden, and in Paris. At Geneva, Van Dam sang in the première of Milhaud's La mère coupable in 1966. Lorin Maazel heard van Dam and invited him to record Ravel’s L’heure espagnole with him for Deutsche Grammoph…
Filmography
movieAmours divins !
2016 · Self - Chanteur
movieAriane et Barbe-Bleue
2011 · Barbe Bleue
movieDon Quichotte
2010 · Don Quichotte
movieJosé van Dam in “Don Quichotte” - His farewell to the stage
2010
movieBeethoven · Missa Solemnis (Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan)
2008 · Self
movieProkofiev - L'Amour des trois oranges
2007 · Tchélio
movieKarajan - Bruckner - Symphonies Nos. 8 & 9
2007 · Self
movieLouise - Opera National de Paris
2007 · The father
Man of La Mancha
movieMan of La Mancha
1998 · Don Quixote / Cervantes
movieVerdi: Don Carlos
1996 · Philippe II
movieLes Contes d'Hoffmann
1993 · Lindorf / Coppélius / Miracle / Dapertutto
movieLetter to Peter
1992 · Self - Bass-Baritone
movieThe Damnation of Faust
1989 · Mephistopheles (baritono)
movieThe Music Teacher
1988 · Joachim Dallayrac
moviePelléas et Mélisande
1987 · Golaud
movieFalstaff
1987 · Sir John Falstaff
tvLe monde est à vous
1987 · Self
Babel opéra, ou la répétition de Don Juan de Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
movieBabel opéra, ou la répétition de Don Juan de Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
1985 · Don Giovanni
movieHerbert von Karajan: Verdi: Requiem
1984 · Self - Bass Baritone
movieDon Giovanni
1979 · Leporello
movieIl Trovatore - Verdi
1978 · Ferrando
movieKarajan Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem
1978 · Self
movieBeethoven Symphony No. 9
1977 · Self
movieThe Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 1977
1977 · Self - Bass
movieMahler - Symphonies Nos. 7 & 8
1975 · Self
movieOtello
1973 · Lodovico
tvLe Grand Échiquier
1972 · Self
movieOffenbach - Les contes d'Hoffmann
— · Coppélius / Miracle / Dapertutto