David Serero

David Serero (born 22 April 1981) is a French baritone opera singer, actor, producer, philanthropist and Ambassador of the Arts. He has played more than 1,500 concerts worldwide, and has performed lead roles in opera, theater and musicals such as Cyrano (Cyrano de Bergerac), Shylock (Merchant of Venice), Othello (Othello), Nabucco (Nabucco), Don Quixote (Man of La Mancha), Richard III (Richard III), Napoleon Bonaparte, Escamillo (Carmen), Enrico (Lucia di Lammermoor), Amonasro (Aida), the title roles of Don Giovanni and Rigoletto and starred in more than 100 films and TV series. He has toured in America, Europe, Middle East, Asia and Russia. In 2017, David Serero is honored in the Who's Who America for outstanding achievement in the entertainment world and for his contribution for the betterment of contemporary society. He is a member of the Recording Academy (Grammys) and the Television Academy of Arts & Sciences (Emmys), for which he is both a voting member.

Born in Paris, Serero studied jazz piano at the American School of Modern Music and at the Bill Evans Piano Academy in Paris. He graduated from both of these schools as a pianist and arranger. He lived in New York from 2001 to 2003, where he studied singing with teachers from Broadway and from the Metropolitan Opera and acting at the HB Studio where he played Stanley from A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, Uncle Louie from Lost in Yonkers by Neil Simon and Marc Anthony from Julius Caesar by Shakespeare. Serero moved to St Petersburg, Russia, to study at the Rimsky-Korsakov Music Conservatory where he made his debut as Scarpia (Tosca) and Germont (La Traviata). Following these performances, he was invited by Valery Gergiev to be part of the Young Singers Academy of the Mariinsky Theater.