Pietro Spagnoli

Pietro Spagnoli was born in Rome. His musical studies began at the age of eight as a member of the Coro of the Sistine Chapel. He made his operatic debut in 1987 as Tracollo in Pergolesi’s Livietta e Tracollo at the Teatro Comunale Firenze. Since then he has sung at , Covent Garden, Turin, Genova, Roma, Parma, Naples, Pesaro Rossini Festival, , Berlin, Hamburg, Strasbourg Festival, Lausanne, Geneva, Bordeaux, Paris, New York and Dallas.

Lyrical baritone Pietro Spagnoli is a sought-after interpreter in ! by W. A. Mozart, G. Rossini and G. Donizetti. His roles include and Leporello in "Don Giovanni"; Figaro in "Il barbiere di Siviglia"; Figaro and Conte d'Almaviva in "Le nozze di Figaro"; Dandini in ""; Don Alfonso and Guglielmo in "Così fan tutte"; Belcore and Doctor Dulcamara in "L'elisir d'amore"; Malatesta in "".

Mr. Spagnoli has also appeared in: "Orfeo" by Monteverdi; "Messa in B minor" by Bach; "La serva padrona" by Pergolesi; "Die Schoepfung" (Raphael) by Haydn; "Il matrimonio segreto" (Conte) di Cimarosa; "La pietra del paragone" by Rossini (Conte Asdrubale and Macrobio); "Il barbiere di Siviglia" (Figaro) by Paisiello; and "Die Winterreise" by Schubert.

He has also performed both Marcello and Schaunard in "La Bohème", including the production that marked the hundredth anniversary of Boheme in the Treatro Regio in Torino in 1996 with and .!Others roles include Lescaut in " Lescaut" by Puccini; Silvio in "I Pagliacci" (Silvio) by Leoncavallo; and he has also appeared in "La Vita Nova" by Wolf-Ferrari; in"Capriccio" (Conte) by Richard Strauss; and in "Pulcinella" by Stravinski.

Mr Spagnoli’s well known singing and acting gifts garnered him notice and his natural talent matured as he worked with conductors like Rinaldo Alessandrini, Maurizio Benini, Richard Bonynge, Bruno Campanella, , M.W.Chung, Daniele Gatti, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Renè Jacobs, Julia Jones, Philippe Jordan, Alain Lombard, Jesus Lopez-Cobos, Fabio Luisi, Gerard Korsten, Gustav Kuhn, Lorin Maazel, , Marc Minkowski, Daniel Oren, Aantonio Pappano, Evelino Pidò, Stefano Ranzani, Carlo Rizzi, Hubert Soudant, Jordi Savall, Christian Thielemann, Marcello Viotti and Alberto Zedda.

He appears in many prestigious festival and houses through the world, and he has worked with many directors, including Irina Brook, Robert Carsen, Liliana Cavani, Pippo Crivelli, Paul Curran, Gilbert Deflò, Roberto De Simone, Dario Fo, Michael Hampe, Werner Herzog, Ulrike & Karl-Ernst Herrmann, Gino Landi, Giorgio Marini, J.L.Martinoty, J.M.Flotats, Jonathan Miller, Moni Ovadia, Giuseppe Patroni-Griffi, Pier'Alli, Pierluigi Pizzi, Thomas Richter, Luca Ronconi, Emilio Sagi, Jerome Savary, Fabio Sparvoli, Stefano Vizioli, and .

He has recorded works for Erato, Harmonia Mundi, Ricordi, Astrae, Rara, Nuova Era, Tactus, Bongiovanni, Claves, Novalis and Naxos.

Many of his shows were broadcast by major international networks, and later on distributed by Rai, Arté, TVE (Spanish TV) and TF (French TV), Nederland 2 (Dutch TV).

This season’s engagements include Mustafa in L’Italiana in Algeri, in Oviedo, Antonio in Linda di Chamounix at the Teatro . Barcelona, conte Almaviva at La Scala, Don Alfonso in Cosi fan Tutte at the Theatre des Champs Elysees and at the Bayerische Oper Munich

He will also appear at the Drottningholm Festival in Haydn’s Orlando Paladino this summer.

Future engagements include Conte Almaviva at the Vienna Staatsoper , Riccardo in I Puritani with the Opera de Lyon in concert version., Aprippina in Oviedo, Raimbaud in Le Comte Ory at the Theater an der Wien and La Rondine at Covent

Source: Patricia Greenan and Penelope Marland Associates and www.pietrospagnoli.com/