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 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 next and recent engagements include: Don Pasquale at the Piccolo
Festival del Friuli, Ramfis in Aida and Zaccaria in Nabucco at the Teatro
Petruzzelli di Bari, Colline in La Bohème and Timur in Turandot at the
Festival Puccini di Torre del Lago and in Livorno, Colline in La Bohème at
the Teatro Bellini di Catania and Novara, 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 in Cagliari;
Commendatore in Don Giovanni in Bologna, Turandot in Trieste (San Giusto)
and his debut in Carmen (Escamillo) in Genoa.
June 2024