David Danholt was born in Funen, Denmark in 1976. He finished his studies with Prof. Kirsten Buhl-Møller at the Opera-Academy in Copenhagen in 2005. He has also participated in master-classes with Dame Margaret Price, Anthony Rolfe-Johnson and Andreas Schmidt and the pianists Rudolf Jansen, Helmut Deutsch, Fiona Macsherry and Martin Isepp.

 In the season 2005/06 Mr. Danholt was engaged to sing Eurimaco in Il ritorno D'Ulisse in patria and Gastone in La Traviata at The Royal Opera Copenhagen. In the 2006/07 season he made his debut at the National Opera, Århus in Denmark as Don Ottavio.

 He established himself in important roles, at the National Opera in the 2007/08, such as the title role in Gounod's Faust, as Steuermann in Der Fliegende Holländer and as Tamino in Mozart's Zauberflöte.

 In 2008/09 he sang Nemorino in L'elisir d'amore, Alfredo in La Traviata and the title role in Idomeneo at Danish National Opera. He will also sing Almaviva in Il Barbiere di Seviglia there in 2011. His international debut on larger scale will be in 2010 singing SS Officer in the worldpremiere of Weinbergs Die Passagierin at Bregenzer Festspiele. He will also cover the leadrole of Walther. Besides he will sing Messaggero in Graham Vick’ s Bregenzer lake production of Aida. In 2011 he is the young Sailor in Tristan & Isolde in Lyon and in 2012 he sings Idomeneo at Grange Park Opera.

 Apart from his many stage performances, Mr. Danholt has extensive concert-appearances throughout Denmark and Scandinavia, performing works such as Mozart's Requiem and Masses, Britten's A midsummernight's dream, Händel's Messiah and Judas Maccabaeus, Haydn's Schöpfung and Mendelsohn's Elias.