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),
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:
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 and
Norma), Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège (I Capuleti e
Montecchi), Teatro la Fenice di Venezia and Festival MiTo in Turin
(Beethoven's Ninth Symphony), Palau de les Arts de Valencia (Il
Trovatore), Teatro Massimo in Palermo (Turandot), Erl
Festival (Puritani) and Wiener Konzerthaus (Rossini's Stabat
Mater).
February 2024