Adolfo Corrado has been named BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2023.

Born in 1994, he trained theatrically at Augusto Zucchi's 'School of Theatre and Film Acting' in Rome. He then began his musical studies at the 'Tito Schipa' Conservatory of Music in Lecce, where he specialised under the guidance of Maestro Gianluca Belfiori. He continued his training at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino as a Young Artist Project under the coordination of M° G. Tangucci.

He won the XLIX Edition of the International Competition TOTI DAL MONTE 2021, winning the role of Don Pasquale in the opera of the same name by G. Donizetti. He won the LXXIII Edition of the International Competition As.Li.Co. 2022, winning the role of Leporello in the opera Don Giovanni by W.A. Mozart.

His most recent engagements have seen him perform in theatres such as: Teatro Petruzzelli (Don Pasquale, Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Arena di Verona (Nabucco), Teatro la Fenice di Venezia (I Lombardi alla Prima Crociata), Teatro Regio di Torino (Turandot; La Scuola de'Gelosi; Lélio), Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (Oedipus Rex; Siberia; Tosca), Salzburger Festspiele (Tosca), Palau de Les Arts Reina Sofia (Don Giovanni), Teatro alla Scala in Milan (Andrea Chénier), Festival della Valle d'Itria in Martina Franca (Il Turco in Italia), Teatro Comunale in Bologna (Le Comte Ory), Festival Donizetti in Bergamo (Alfredo il Grande), Fondazione Petruzzelli di Bari, Teatro La Fenice di Venezia and Torre del Lago Festival (La Bohème), Teatro San Carlo in Naples (Mozart's Messa in C minor), Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse (La Cenerentola), under the direction of the maestros: Daniel Oren, Zubin Mehta, Gianandrea Noseda, Renato Palumbo, Daniele Gatti, Jordi Bernàcer, Sebastiano Rolli, Stefano Montanari, Nikolas Nägele.

Some of his upcoming works will see him perform in theatres such as: Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège (I Capuleti e Montecchi), Teatro la Fenice di Venezia and Festival MiTo in Turin (Beethoven's Ninth Symphony), Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago (La Bohème), Opera de Rouen (Aida), Orchestra Sinfonica Giuseppe Verdi in Milan (Verdi's Requiem), Palau de les Arts de Valencia (Il Trovatore), Tiroler Festspiele Erl (I Puritani concert version), Opera de Toulouse (Norma) and Wiener Konzerthaus (Rossini's Stabat Mater).

April 2024