David Daniels (countertenor)

David Daniels (born 12 March 1966) is a famous countertenor.

I think performing Oscar the first time in Santa Fe is really what prompted me to look into proposing to my husband Scott, because it just seemed right.

Quotes

• I think performing Oscar the first time in Santa Fe is really what prompted me to look into proposing to my husband Scott, because it just seemed right. You know, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a huge advocate for Oscar and talked about in interviews. She came to the performances in Santa Fe and we were able to meet her and take photos with her. So it all just made sense: I think Prop 8 failed at that time, states started to make marriage legal, and it just all seemed right. So, yeah, we got married between the two runs of Oscar, and fortunately, Justice Ginsburg married us in D.C., which was such an honor. I still look back to that day and can’t really believe it! I asked her, and she said if I could come to Washington, D.C., she would be happy to do it. And on June 21st, 2014, we got married.
  • As quoted in "Private: Countertenor David Daniels on finding his voice, finding himself, and being married by Justice Ginsburg" by Stephen Raskauskas, in wfmt (30 June 2015)

External links

• David Daniels' website
• Interview with Daniels by James Jorden, parterre box (23 June 1999)
• "Barbaro traditor" on YouTube

, from Vivaldi's 1735 opera Bajazet (Il Tamerlano)