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, Beethoven's Ninth
Symphony), 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 Great
Mass in C minor), Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse (La Cenerentola,
Norma), Opéra Royal de Wallonie a Liège (I Capuleti e i Montecchi),
Opera de Rouen (Aida), Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia (Il
Trovatore) and Teatro Verdi in Pisa (Il turco in Italia)
under the direction of the maestros: Daniel Oren, Zubin Mehta, Maurizio
Benini, Gianandrea Noseda, Renato Palumbo, Daniele Gatti, Jordi Bernàcer,
Sebastiano Rolli, Stefano Montanari, Nikolas Nägele.
On the concert front, he recently performed Beehtoven's Symphony No.
9 for the opening of the MiTo Festival conducted by Michele Spotti;
Verdi's Requiem with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano conducted
by Michele Gamba; Rossini's Stabat Mater at the Accademia
Nazionale di S. Cecilia in Rome; Mozart's Mass in C minor at the
Teatro Filarmonico in Verona; Shostakovich's Symphony No. 14 in
Florence and Livorno with the Orchestra della Toscana conducted by
Riccardo Bisatti; and Turandot in concert form with the Minnesota
Orchestra.
Upcoming engagements include: L’Italiana in Algeri at the Teatro
dell’Opera di Roma; Il Trovatore (concert version) with the
Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano; Macbeth at the Teatro Verdi in
Busseto for the Verdi Festival; Rigoletto and Il Trovatore
at the Teatro Municipale in Piacenza; Le nozze di Figaro at the
Oper Koln; La Cenerentola at the Opéra National de Paris; Lucia
di Lammermoor and La sonnambula (concert version) at the
Tiroler Festspiele Erl; Tancredi and Shostakovich’s Symphony
No. 14 at the Festival della Valle d’Itria in Martina Franca;
Rossini’s Stabat Mater at the Wiener Konzerthaus; and a gala at
the Smetana Hall in Prague with the Prague Philharmonia.
May 2025