José van Dam

Van Dam has performed at L’Opéra de Paris, Covent Garden, the Metropolitan Opera, Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Vienna State Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels, Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, the Salzburg Festival, and festivals in Aix-en-Provence and Orange, France.

Van Dam is featured as one of the three interviewees in 'Doucement les Basses', with Gabriel Bacquier and Claudio Desderi discussing their approach to roles in the bass-baritone repertoire.

[3] Van Dam appears in the films The Music Teacher (1988) as Joachim Dallayrac, and in Don Giovanni (1979) as Leporello, directed by Joseph Losey, and conducted by Maazel.

Among van Dam's extensive discography are complete studio recordings of Carmen as Escamillo (in 1974 under Lombard in Strasbourg, in 1975 under Solti in London and 1982 under Karajan in Berlin), as the father in Louise (Rudel, 1977), Die Zauberflöte (as the Speaker, 1980), Faust as Méphistophélès (conducted by Michel Plasson, 1991), Les contes d'Hoffmann as the four opponents of Hoffmann (in 1988 under Cambreling, and under Nagano in 1994–1996), Don Carlos (1996), and Die Meistersinger (conducted by Sir Georg Solti, 1997).

With Herbert von Karajan, he also recorded Fidelio (1970), Le nozze di Figaro (1978), Salome (1978), Pelléas et Mélisande (1978), Parsifal (1979–1980), Die Zauberflöte (1980), and Der fliegende Holländer (1981–1983), Ein Deutsches Requiem (1985), as well as Beethoven's Ninth Symphony (1977 and 1983).