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, La Bohème), Arena di Verona (Nabucco), Teatro la Fenice di Venezia (I Lombardi alla Prima Crociata, La Bohème, Sinfonia n.9 di Beethoven), 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), Torre del Lago Festival (La Bohème), Teatro San Carlo in Naples (Mozart's Messa in C minor), Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse (La Cenerentola), Opéra Royal de Wallonie a Liège (I Capuleti e Montecchi) under the direction of the maestros: Daniel Oren, Zubin Mehta, Gianandrea Noseda, Renato Palumbo, Daniele Gatti, Jordi Bernàcer, Sebastiano Rolli, Stefano Montanari, Nikolas Nägele.

Upcoming engagements include: Aida at the Opera de Rouen, Il Trovatore at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia; Norma at the Opera de Toulouse; L'Italiana in Algeri at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma; I Puritani concert version at the Tiroler Festspiele Erl; Turandot concert version with the Minnesota Orchestra; Beethoven's Symphony n.9 at the Festival MiTo in Turin, Verdi's Requiem with the Orchestra Sinfonica Giuseppe Verdi di Milano; Rossini's Stabat Mater at the Accademia Nazionale di S. Cecilia di Roma and at the Wiener Konzerthaus.

August 2024