After graduating in organ, Abramo Rosalen took up the study of singing.
He made his debut for La Biennale di Venezia in 2002 with Claudio
Ambrosini's contemporary opera Big Bang Circus, also performed at
the Teatro Lirico in Trieste and at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples.
At the Teatro La Fenice in Venice he made his debut as Commendatore in
Don Giovanni, singing also in Nino Rota's Il Principe Porcaro and
in Carlo De Pirro's L'Angelo e l'Aura and Gounod's Romeo et
Juliette. He made his debut in the role of Mustafà in L'Italiana
in Algeri at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna, a part he subsequently
sang at the Filarmonico in Verona, in the Circuito Lombardo, at the Teatro
Coccia in Novara and at the Teatro Alighieri in Ravenna.
Important roles include Zaccaria at the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari,
Caronte and Pluto in l'Orfeo by Monteverdi at the Teatro Comunale
di Ferrara, Oroveso in Norma at the Teatro Massimo Bellini di
Catania, Bartolo in Le Nozze di Figaro and Don Basilio in Il
Barbiere di Siviglia at the Teatro Regio di Torino, Timur in Turandot
at the ROH of Muscat in Oman, Ramfis in Aida, Padre
Guardiano in La Forza del Destino, Silva in Ernani, Oroe
in Semiramide, Tobia Mill in La Cambiale di Matrimonio,
Gaudenzio in Il signor Bruschino, Leporello in Don Giovanni,
Polifemo in Acis e Galatea by Händel, Sparafucile in Rigoletto,
Lusignano in Zaira, Sarastro in Die Zauberflöte.
He has worked with conductors such as Lorin Maazel, Renato Palumbo,
Andrea Battistoni, Riccardo Frizza, Julian Kovatchev, Alberto Veronesi,
Giampaolo Maria Bisanti, and with directors such as Beppe de Tomasi, Pier
Luigi Pizzi, Maurizio Scaparro, Henning Brockhaus, Damiano Michieletto,
Mariusz Trelinsky, and Andrea Cigni.
He has sung Zio Bonzo in Madama Butterfly and Il marchese
d'Obigny in La Traviata at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Don
Alfonso in Così fan Tutte at the New Dubai Opera House, Sarastro
in Die Zauberflöte in AsLiCo, Timur in Turandot at the
Shanghai Opera House and Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía, Don Alfonso in
Così Fan Tutte at Teatro Verdi in Trieste, Sir Giorgio in I
Puritani at Teatro Verdi in Trieste, Jacopo Fiesco in Simon
Boccanegra at the Teatro Petruzzelli di Bari, Sparafucile in Rigoletto
at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, on tour in Japan and at the
Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Alfonso I d'Este in Lucrezia
Borgia at the Teatro Verdi di Trieste, opened the season of the
Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires singing Zaccaria in Nabucco.
His recent engagements include: Don Pasquale at the Piccolo
Festival del Friuli, Ramfis in Aida and Zaccaria in Nabucco at
the Teatro Petruzzelli di Bari, Timur in Turandot at the Festival
Puccini di Torre del Lago and in Livorno, Colline in La Bohème at
the Teatro Bellini di Catania, in Novara and at the Festival Puccini di
Torre del Lago, Conte Walter in Luisa Miller and Padre Guardiano
in La Forza del Destino at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna,
Zaccaria in Nabucco and Ramfis in Aida at the Arena in
Verona, Mustafà in L'Italiana in Algeri in Ljubljana, Basilio in Il
Barbiere di Siviglia in Lecce and Novara, Capellio in I Capuleti
e i Montecchi in Padua, Sarastro in Die Zauberflöte in
Ancona, Spettro in Faccio's Amleto at the Teatro Filarmonico in
Verona, Simon mago in Boito's Nerone and Adriana Lecouvreur in
Cagliari; Commendatore in Don Giovanni in Bologna, and Turandot
in Trieste (San Giusto).
Upcoming engagements include: La Gioconda (Alvise Badoero) at the
Teatro Lirico in Cagliari; Der Fliegende Hollaender (Daland) at
the Teatro Verdi in Trieste; his debut in Carmen (Escamillo) at
the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genova; and Aida (Ramfis) and Rigoletto
(Il conte di Monterone) at the Arena di Verona.
December 2024