Louis Gentile, born in West Haven CT, started out singing in his rock/pop group and touring the United States when he was 15. At 19 he recorded the single "If I Had The Chance" and did vocal work in Nashville. All during this time his vocal quality and ability was recognized by national and international experts. He was given lead roles in local and off-Broadway American musicals. ( Man of Lamancha, Carousel, Show Boat ) During this time he continued with his vocal studies, expanding his interests into the field of classical opera. Living in New York city for five years he worked with some of the leading vocal experts in the world, and sang at the famous opera restaurant in Greenwich Village. (Bianchi e Margarittas) This would all soon lead to full scholarships to study voice in Siena Italy and at the Zürich Opera studio in Switzerland. Since then, Louis has enjoyed the status as one of the most respected and versitile operatic tenors in the operatic world, singing in the world’s leading opera houses and working with classical greats such as Daniel Barenboim, Antonio Pappano, Raymond Leppard, Jeffry Tate, etc. covering in his youth for great tenors like Luciano Pavarotti and Neil Schicoff. In Europe he is better known for award winning television productions of opera works. He never lost his love or drive for singing and writing many different forms of popular music. Many of Louis’ works have been used for film scoring, and Lou recently wrote the film score for the German based film “22 Kilometer gegen Rechts” from film director and singer Florian Prey. While studying in New York and singing at the famous "Bianchi & Mrgaritta's" opera restaurant in the village, he met and helped coach actor Robert Duvall on guitar for his then upcoming movie “Tender Mercies.” Today Louis lives in a 500 year old water mill in the resort area of Eitorf-Bach in Germany. He is renovating the mill, complete with recording studio. It is his base for his international opera activities, as well as his continuing love for composing and performing original works. In the future Louis will continue singing the longest and most difficult tenor roles in the operatic repertoire, (Tristan, Tannhäuser, Siegfried) in the world's finest opera houses, with some of the greatest musicians of our generation.
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Hi Louis, Great to see my GarageBand friend on here rocking the house with that awesome voice! Happy Holidays and I hope you and your family are doing well:-) Brent
Hey Louis, nice to hear from you! I just finished the all state music festival where I sang tenor. Our conductor was great...Paul Oakley, not sure if you've heard of him. Also, next year I will be going to Wesleyan University, maybe to study philosophy or writing or music, I'm not totallty sure yet. Hope all is well in Germany! Peace
