R O B E R T O S C A N D I U Z Z I – Bass One of the last representative of the Italian school of great artists such as Ezio Pinza and Cesare Siepi, Roberto Scandiuzzi is considered today one of the world’s most appreciated basses. He was only 24 when he made his company debut at Teatro alla Scala, in Le nozze di Figaro conducted by Riccardo Muti. After his acclaimed performance as Jacopo Fiesco in Simon Boccanegra at Royal Opera House Covent Garden, under the baton of Sir Georg Solti, he started a shining international career that led him to such theatres as Metropolitan Opera of New York, Opéra National de Paris, Wiener Staatsoper, Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, San Francisco Opera, working with such renowned conductors as Claudio Abbado, Sir Colin Davis, Valerij Gergeev, James Levine, Fabio Luisi, Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Seiji Ozawa, Sir Antonio Pappano, Georges Prêtre, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Sir Georg Solti and Marcello Viotti. His vast repertory ranges from Verdi bass roles to the French and Russian repertoire, as well as from “Scapigliatura” (Boito's Mefistofele) to Verism (Ponchielli's La Gioconda). Also active on concert field, he has worked with such renowned orchestras as Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of London, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia di Roma, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre National de France, Berliner Philharmoniker, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks and Die Münchner Philharmoniker. Among his greatest successes in recent years, it can be reported: Pelléas et Mélisande (Arkel) at Opera di Firenze conducted by Daniele Gatti, Faust (Méphistophélès) at Staatsoper Berlin, Aida (Ramfis) at Opéra National de Paris and at Seoul Arts Center, Norma (Oroveso) at NCPA Beijing, Il barbiere di Siviglia (Basilio) at Royal Opera House of Muscat, Teatro San Carlo di Napoli and Grand Théâtre de Genève, Don Pasquale (title role) at Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, La Gioconda (Alvise) at Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Luisa Miller (conte Walter) at New Israeli Opera Tel Aviv, Don Carlo (Filippo II) at Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse. His wide discography includes Simon Boccanegra (dvd Decca), Don Carlo, Jerusalem and Aroldo by Verdi (Philips), Messa da Requiem and Gioconda (EMI), Cristoforo Colombo (Koch), Stabat Mater by Rossini, Rigoletto and Stabat Mater by Dvorák (DGG), La Sonnambula (Nightingale), La bohème (Erato), Macbeth (Sine Qua Non – dvd TDK) , two recordings of Turandot (Decca and Nuova Era), Jérusalem and the only one recording of Verdi’s Messa da Requiem with Giuseppe Sinopoli and Staatskapelle Dresden. LATEST PERFORMANCES: Simon Boccanegra at Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari; Verdi’s Requiem at Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège; Aida at Opera Australia in Sydney and at Teatro Colon de Buenos Aires; Macbeth and Don Carlos (Grande Inquisitore) at Opéra de Lyon; La ciociara by Tutino at Teatro Lirico di Cagliari; Turandot at Shhanxi Grand Theatre of Xi’an; Verdi’s Requiem at Opera Australia in Sydney; La Sonnambula and Il barbiere di Siviglia at Teatro La Fenice di Venezia; Don Pasquale at Teatro Verdi di Salerno; Jérusalem in Liège; La grotta di Trofonio (Trofonio) at Teatro San Carlo di Napoli and at Festival della Valle d’Itria in Martina franca. FORTHCOMING PROJECTS: Il pirata (Goffredo) at Grand Théatre de Genève; Il barbiere di Siviglia at Semperoper Dresden; Rigoletto (Sparafucile) at Opera Australia in Melbourne; Don Carlos at De Vlaamse Opera in Antwerp, in Liège and at Wiener Staatsoper; Don Pasquale at New National Theatre Tokyo; Ernani in Melbourne; Aida and La Juive (Brogny) in Sydney. Last update: February 2019, please do not use any previous version. Melos Opera S.r.l. – Via Speranza, 5 – 40068 San Lazzaro di Savena (Bo) – Italia [email protected] – www.melosopera.com – tel. +39 051 455 395 Cap. Soc. € 10.000 i.v. – Cod. Fisc. e P.Iva: 03640741207 – REA BO-535118 .