The baritone Devid Cecconi, born in Florence, after completed his studies, won the first prize of the “Mattia Battistini” International Singing Competition.

He has a wide repertoire which includes role as: Falstaff, Renato in Un Ballo in Maschera, Macbeth, Gerard in Andrea Chenier, Rodrigo in Don Carlo, Nabucco, Rigoletto and many others.

Mr. Cecconi starred as Rigoletto at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste, Daniel Oren conducting, then on tour in Italy; Il Tabarro at the Teatro Luciano Pavarotti in Modena, Piacenza and Ferrara; La Forza del Destino, Rigoletto, Nabucco at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa; Pagliacci and Aida at the Terme di Caracalla in Rome; Rigoletto and Madama Butterfly in Salerno; Tabarro and Gianni Schicchi in Ravenna, Modena and on tour in Tuscany; Madama Butterfly at the National Center of Performing Arts in Mumbay; Giovanna d’Arco at the Teatro Regio in Parma, Bruno Bartoletti conducting, then he went on tour as Rigoletto in China again with the Teatro Regio of Parma.

In the past season he performed: Rigoletto at the Festival in St.Margarethen, Leipzig, Trieste, Bologna, at the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago, Seoul, Liège; Nabucco in Masada, Palermo and Leipzig; Roberto Devereux at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome and at the Bunka Kaikan in Tokyo on tour with the Bayerische Staatsoper Berlin; La Bohème at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and at the Opéra in Toulon; Gianni Schicchi in Lecce; Pagliacci at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona; Attila (Ezio) in Trieste; Madama Butterfly at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo and in Lecce; La Traviata in Hannover; Un Ballo in Maschera in Seoul, Cagliari and Kiel; Falstaff in Wiesbaden; La Bohème and Aida in Gozo; Giovanna d’Arco (Giacomo) for the season opening night at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan (Riccardo Chailly conducting); Lucia di Lammermoor (Enrico Ashton) in Trieste; Puccini's Trittico (Michele and Gianni) in Ferrara; Cavalleria Rusticana and Tutino's La Ciociara (Giovanni), in the world première of the opera, at the Teatro Lirico in Cagliari; Tosca (Scarpia) on tour in Italy (Brescia, Cremona, Como, Bergamo and Pavia) and at the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome; Cavalleria Rusticana at the Teatro del Maggio in Florence and Un Ballo in Maschera in Darmstadt.

Most recently he took part in Tosca in Cagliari, Tel Aviv (concert version), Rome and Jesi; Andrea Chénier in Trieste, Toulon and Cagliari; Aida and Nabucco in Split; Pagliacci at the Teatro del Maggio in Florence; Rigoletto in Leipzig and Modena; Tosca and Gala concert in Torre del Lago; Adriana Lecouvreur in Genoa and Catania; Nabucco in Split; Cavalleria Rusticana and Ernani in Cagliari; La Fanciulla del West in Pavia and Brescia; La Bohème in Toulon; Rigoletto and Pagliacci in Trieste; Simon Boccanegra in Parma; Giovanna d'Arco and Un ballo in maschera in Modena and Reggio Emilia.

Plans include: Madama Butterfly on tour in Italy (Brescia, Como, Cremona, Lucca, Bergamo, Pavia); Tutino’s La Ciociara at the Wexford Opera Festival; Spontini’s La Vestale in Thessaloniki and Rigoletto in Stuttgart.

May 2023