Gianfranco Montresor
Bass
Born in Verona, graduated from the Conservatory of Brescia, Gianfranco Montresor made his debut in 1993 at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona in Paolo Arcà's
Gattabianca
followed by
Carmen
(Escamillo) at the San Severo Festival and
La Bohème
(Marcello) at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo.
His brilliant and rapid career soon took him to the stage of numerous theatres including the New National Theatre in Tokyo, Wexford Festival Opera, New Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv, Teatro de São Carlos in Lisbon, Macerata Opera Festival, Teatro Filarmonico in Verona, Teatro Regio in Parma, Teatro Verdi in Trieste, Teatro dell'Opera in Rome and Teatro delle Muse in Ancona.
In the course of his career, he has had the opportunity to work with conductors such as Antonello Allemandi, Bruno Bartoletti, Yoram David, Jacques Delacôte, Renato Palumbo, Stefano Ranzani, Donato Renzetti, Keri-Lynn Wilson, Riccardo Muti, Zubin Mehta, John Elliot Gardiner, Daniel Oren, Marco Armiliato, Daniel Barenboim, Pinchas Steinberg, and with directors such as Yuri Alexandrov, Hugo de Ana and Giuseppe Patroni Griffi.
His repertoire includes titles such as
Madama Butterfly
(Sharpless),
Cavalleria Rusticana
(Alfio),
Fidelio
(Don Pizarro),
Don Carlo
(Rodrigo),
La Traviata
(Germont),
La Bohème
(Marcello),
Carmen
(Escamillo),
L'Elisir d'amore
(Belcore),
Assassinio nella cattedrale, Il Barbiere di Siviglia
(Figaro),
Attila
(Ezio),
Simon Boccanegra
(Paolo Albiani),
Otello
(Jago),
L'enfance du Christ
by Berlioz and
Sly
by Wolf Ferrari.
The collaboration with Teatro alla Scala began in 2007 with Fabio Vacchi's new opera
Teneke
and continued in 2008 with Prokofiev's
Il Giocatore
conducted by Daniel Baremboim. With the same opera, his debut at the Staatsoper in Berlin also in 2008.
In past seasons he sang:
Rigoletto
(Monterone) at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London;
La Fanciulla del West
in Monte Carlo;
Messa di Gloria
and
Simon Boccanegra
in Genoa;
Cavalleria Rusticana
and
Madama Butterfly
in Ancona;
Rigoletto
in Taormina;
Aida
at the 'Festival La Perla' in Switzerland;
Ernani
,
Manon Lescaut
,
Un ballo in maschera
,
Tristan und Isolde
,
Tosca
and
Carmen
in Rome;
Turandot
,
Carmen
and
Traviata
at the Arena di Verona;
Don Pasquale
in Basel;
Turandot
in Oman;
Madama Butterfly
in Klagenfurt;
Rigoletto
and
I Puritani
at the Liceu in Barcelona;
Simon Boccanegra
,
La Fanciulla del West
and
Rigoletto
in Naples and
Simon Boccanegra
in Bari.
Recent engagements include:
Salome
and
Madama Butterfly
at the Filarmonico in Verona;
Rigoletto
at the Teatro la Fenice in Venice, in Genoa and at the Arena in Verona;
Flauto Magico
at the San Carlo in Naples;
Un Ballo in Maschera
and
Ernani
in Oviedo, Filarmonico in Verona, Seville and Nancy;
La Fanciulla del West
at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna;
Fedora
at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan;
Adriana Lecouvreur
and
Turandot
in Catania and Puccini's
Trittico
in Turin.
Upcoming engagements will see him perform
Rigoletto
and
Les Dialogues des Carmelites
in Venice and
Madama Butterfly
in Catania.
August 2024
