José van Dam
Birthday
1940/08/25 (84 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium
Also know as
Joseph Van Damme
Biography
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 a...Read more
Acting
(2007) Karajan - Bruckner - Symphonies Nos. 8 & 9
as Self
(1979) Don Giovanni
as Leporello
(2007) Louise - Opera National de Paris
as The father
(1988) The Music Teacher
as Joachim Dallayrac
Offenbach - Les contes d'Hoffmann
as Coppélius / Miracle / Dapertutto
(1996) Verdi: Don Carlos
as Philippe II
(1978) Il Trovatore - Verdi
as Ferrando
(1973) Otello
as Lodovico
(1992) Letter to Peter, on Saint François d'Assise by Olivier Messiaen
as Self - Bass-Baritone
(1993) Les Contes d'Hoffmann
as Lindorf / Coppélius / Miracle / Dapertutto
(2016) Amours divins !
as Self - Chanteur
(1985) Babel opéra, ou la répétition de Don Juan de Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
as Don Giovanni
(2008) Beethoven · Missa Solemnis (Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan)
as Self
(1984) Herbert von Karajan: Verdi: Requiem
as Self - Bass Baritone
(1998) Man of La Mancha
as Don Quixote / Cervantes
(2011) Ariane et Barbe-Bleue
as Barbe Bleue
(1989) The Damnation of Faust
as Mephistopheles (baritono)
(1987) Pelléas et Mélisande
as Golaud
(1978) Karajan Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem
as Self
(1977) Beethoven Symphony No. 9
as Self
(2007) L'Amour des trois Oranges - Prokofiev
as Tchélio
(2010) Don Quichotte
as Don Quichotte
(1975) Mahler - Symphonies Nos. 7 & 8
as Self
(1977) The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 1977
as Self - Bass
(1972) Le Grand Échiquier
as Self
(1987) Le monde est à vous
as Self