Death of the Australian tenor Steve Davislim
Steve Davislim, who was a member of the Zurich Opera House ensemble from 1994 to 2000, has died in Vienna at the age of 57 after a long illness.
Steve Davislim began his musical training as a horn player and later studied singing with Dame Joan Hammond, Gösta Winbergh and Neil Shicoff as well as in Irwin Gage's lied class and at the International Opera Studio Zurich.
From 1994 to 2000, he sang roles such as Count Almaviva (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Steuermann (Der fliegende Holländer), Tamino (Die Zauberflöte), Ferrando (Cosi fan tutti), Camille (Die lustige Witwe) and Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni) as well as the Prince in Heinz Holliger's "Schneewittchen" at the Zurich Opera House.
