Saverio Clemente Andrea De Amici Luca Targetti

Andrea Silvestrelli has quickly become one of the most sought-after ‘bassi profondi’ on the international opera scene.

Garnering critical acclaim for his debut at the Lyric Opera of Chicago in , the Chicago Sun-Times reported, “There were wild cheers for Andrea Silvestrelli …who brought a terrifying, sepulchral tone to the assassin Sparafucile.” The Chicago Sun concurred, “Andrea Silvestrelli wielded a big, black, menacing bass in his debut as the assassin Sparafucile.” Mr. Silvestrelli opens the 2012/13 season as Sparafucile for San Francisco Opera under Music Director Nicola Luisotti. He returns to Lyric Opera of Chicago, where he will be heard in three productions: Sparafucile in Rigoletto, Colline in La bohème, and The Nightwatchmen in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. Last season, he sang Pimen at Lyric Opera of Chicago in their production of Boris Godunov and returned to New York for the ’s production of Ernani. He returned to Houston Grand Opera, where he was heard as Philippe II in Don Carlos to finish the season.

He began the 2010-2011 season with his debut at the Metropolitan opera as Sparafucile in the Otto Schenk production of Rigoletto and joined Los Andrea Silvestrelli Angeles Opera and Maestro James Conlon for the same role. Bass He was then heard in concert with the Milwaukee Symphony and Edo de Waart in performances of Act 1 of Die Walküre. He finished the season as Fasolt in and Hagen in Götterdämmerung with San Francisco Opera for their new Ring Cycle.

Other recent seasons have included performances as Bartolo in Le nozze di Figaro with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Horatio in Hamlet for Trieste, Hunding in Die Walküre for Mexico City, and Oroveso in Norma for Finnish National Opera. He has also sung Assassino nella cattedrale and Il gatto con gli stivali with Rome Opera, Filippo II in Graz, Banco in Macbeth in Amsterdam, the French King in Reimann’s Lear and Oroveso in Torino, Pistola in Falstaff at the Teatro Comunale, Commendatore in at the , Covent Garden, Seneca in L’incoronazione di Poppea at the Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam, Gofreddo in Il pirate at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, Sparafucile in the Canary Islands, Commendatore in Don Giovanni at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna, Oroveso in Norma at the São Carlos in Lisbon, Hermann in Tannhäuser at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Titurel in at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino under Semyon Bychkov, Pistola at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome under Daniele Gatti and at the Berlin Staatsoper under , his debut at Covent Garden as Lodovico in Otello, Timur in the Zhang Zimou production of Turandot led by Zubin Mehta and performed by the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in the Forbidden City in Beijing, Norma at the San Francisco Opera, Escamillo in in Tokyo, Penderecki’s The Devils of Loudoun and Pizzetti’s Murder in the Cathedral in Turin, Pistola in Falstaff with the Minnesota Orchestra under Jeffrey Tate, and Aida in Florence and in Amsterdam under Riccardo Chailly.

InArt Management Via San Gregorio 53, 20124 Milano Tel. +39 02 97 37 41 66 / Fax +39 02 97 37 42 33 [email protected] www.inartmanagement.com

Saverio Clemente Andrea De Amici Luca Targetti

Mr. Silvestrelli is a regular guest of symphony orchestras worldwide and has been heard with Sir Andrew Davis and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra in Verdi’s Requiem, in Puccini’s Messa di Gloria in Hamburg, Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Rossini’s Stabat Mater in Berlin, and Verdi’s Requiem in Siena, with the ABC Symphony in Sydney, and at the Gasteig in Munich. Mr. Silvestrelli has recorded Don Giovanni (Commendatore) conducted by John Eliot Gardiner for DGG, a production awarded with a Grammy in 1995, and Haydn’s L’anima del filosofo for Decca (1996).

Among her recent and future engagements: Don Giovanni and Trovatore in Chicago, Rigoletto in Santa Fe, Das Rheingold, Siegfrid and Götterdämmerung in Erl, Luisa Miller, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Die Meistersinger von Nurnberga and Don Carlo in San Francisco.

December 2015

InArt Management Via San Gregorio 53, 20124 Milano Tel. +39 02 97 37 41 66 / Fax +39 02 97 37 42 33 [email protected] www.inartmanagement.com