Angelo Villari - Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton

Angelo Villari won the first prize at the International Contest “Simone Alaimo, il Bel Canto” (2010)  and he was finalist at the Lyric Contest Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago and he won the role of Il Duca of Mantua in Rigoletto in the Contest “Il Bel canto nella Valle dei Templi” in Agrigento (Sicily). Amongst the roles he sang, it is worth mentioning: Canio in Pagliacci, Turiddu in Cavalleria Rusticana, Cavaradossi in Tosca and Alfredo in Traviata. Angelo Villari recently sang: Cavalleria Rusticana in Lecce, Pagliacci in Malta, Attila (Foresto) in Rovereto. Among his most important successes in the past season, it is worth mentioning: Il Trovatore at the Teatro Donizetti in Bergamo, Madama Butterfly in Lübeck and in Bari, La Traviata in Malta, the main role in Ennio Porrino’s I Shardana at the Teatro Lirico in Cagliari, conducted by Anthony Bramall in a new production by Davide Livermore (also filmed in DVD by Dynamic). Mr. Villari starred the main tenor role in Casella’s La donna serpente under Fabio Luisi for the opening of the Martina Franca Festival. Mr. Villari recently performed Adriana Lecouvreur in Como, Pavia and Cremona.

Plans include Guglielmo Ratcliff at the Wexford Festival Opera.