Garrie Davislim Born in Tasmania, tenor Garrie Davislim is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts (University of Melbourne) and Monash University in Melbourne and also of The National Opera Studio, in London. He is winner of the “Opera Foundation Australia, Covent Garden National Opera Studio Award” (1998). Also winner of the “Opera Foundation Australia Italian Opera Award” (2000) furthered his studies in London, Rome and Florence. His European debut was at Teatro alla Scala as Tony West Side Story, and engaged at the Vienna Volksoper shortly thereafter. Further engagements include Theater Krefeld/Mönchengladbach, Landestheater Coburg, with guest performances at Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern, Staatsoperette Dresden, and Theater Regensburg, Festival Gut-Immling, and Luzerner Theater in Switzerland.
His repertoire list includes roles such as Rodolfo La Boheme, Tamino The Magic Flute, Ernesto Don Pasquale, Steuermann The Flying Dutchman, Ferrando Cosi fan Tutte, Don Ottavio Don Giovanni, Fenton Falstaff, Nemorino The Elixir of Love, Lyonel Martha, Camille de Rossillon Merry Widow and Orpheus Orpheus in the Underworld. He recently covered Acis Acis and Galatea for Royal Opera, Covent Garden. Apart from opera, Garrie Davislim has performed many oratorios and concerts of varying repertoire in Europe and Australia,
REVIEWS "Garrie Davislim delivers his Rodolfo, with a pleasant fineness, soaring emphatically, all the while clearly audible." Opernwelt
"As Rodolfo, impressive at the Premiere performance, Garrie Davislim, with an engaging and intelligently krafted interpretation... succeeded Davislim with intensive creative power an enthralling analysis of the part, always malleable withthe articulation and with secure and flawless high-notes." Coburger Tageblatt
"Garrie Davislim could with warmth, convey strong emotion as he showed with ‘che gelida manina’, and in the closing moments of Act 1 and Act 4. Tenorial clarity unfolded with the high-notes." Die Neue Presse
"Garrie Davislim as Tamino is vocally smooth, clear and beautifully timbered, and earnest acting-wise, who never forced neither vocally or with his acting." Münchener Merkur
"And Garrie Davislim exuded as the beautifully voiced Steuermann, melting youthfullness." Das Opernglas