Angelo Villari - Manrico

Born in Messina, Angelo Villari graduated in singing from the A. Boito conservatoire in Parma. In the past seasons he sang: Cavalleria Rusticana in Lecce; Pagliacci and La Traviata in Malta; Attila (Foresto) in Rovereto; Il Trovatore at the Teatro Donizetti in Bergamo; Madama Butterfly in Lübeck, in Bari, in Parma and at the Terme in Caracalla in Rome; 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 (issued in DVD by Dynamic). He starred in Casella’s La donna serpente, singing the main tenor role under Fabio Luisi for the opening of the Martina Franca Festival. Mr. Villari recently sang Maurizio in Adriana Lecouvreur in Como, Pavia and Cremona; Guglielmo Ratcliff at the Wexford Festival Opera.

Plans include: Respighi’s La Campana sommersa at the Teatro Lirico in Cagliari; Madama Butterfly at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo and at the Terme di Caracalla in Rome. Mr. Villari will return to Catania at the Teatro Massimo Bellini singing Alfano’s La Leggenda di Sakuntala.