Acting

David Serero

David Serero (born 22 April 1981) is a Moroccan-French baritone opera singer, stage & film director, and producer. He has sung in many concerts and performed in opera, theater and musicals such as the title role in Cyrano de Bergerac, Othello, Richard III, Don Giovanni, Rigoletto and Nabucco, Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, Don Quixote in Man of La Mancha, Escamillo in Carmen, Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor and Amonasro in Aida, and in films and TV series. He has toured in America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Russia. He received the 2019 Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2020, he received the UNESCO Award for Diversity. He won the 2020 BroadwayWorld Awards for Best Performer of the decade, Best Producer of a Musical of the decade, Best Producer of a Play of the decade. The Mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio, awarded him with the Certificate of Recognition for his contributions to the City of New York. Born in Paris to a Moroccan Jewish family from Fez, Serero studied jazz piano at the American School of Modern Music and at the Bill Evans Piano Academy in Paris. He lived in New York from 2001 to 2003, where he studied singing and acting at the HB Studio, where he played roles in classic plays. Serero moved to St. Petersburg, Russia, to study at the Rimsky-Korsakov Music Conservatory, where he made his debut as Scarpia in Tosca and Germont in La traviata. Following these performances, he joined the Young Singers Academy of the Mariinsky Theater.