Giulio
Mastrototaro, born in Riva del Garda (Italy), studied under the guidance of
Vito Brunetti and graduated with honors at the "Claudio Monteverdi"
Music Conservatory in Bolzano in 2002. He won the As.Li.Co. competition for the
role of Belcore in L'Elisir d'Amore and the "Best Performer"
award for Donizetti's Pietro il Grande (recorded be Dynamic) at the
Martina Franca Festival.
His vast repertoire includes:
Paisiello's Il barbiere di Siviglia (Figaro) with Rinaldo Alessandrini
at the Théâtre de La Monnaie in Brussels; Galuppi's Le nozze di Dorina
(Masotto) in Potsdam and at the Bayreuth Barock Festival with Sergio Azzolini;
Cimarosa's Il Matrimonio Segreto (Conte Robinson) in Bolzano with Giovanni
Antonini; L'Italiana in Algeri (Haly) led by Alberto Zedda, La
Cambiale di Matrimonio and La Gazzetta (Filippo) at the Rossini
Festival in Wildbad; Donizetti's Adelia (Il Duca di Borgogna) with
Gustav Kuhn in Bozen; La Dirindina (Don Carissimo) with L'Arte dell'Arco
and Federico Guglielmo; L'Italiana in Algeri (Taddeo) in Lisbon; L'Elisir
d'Amore (Belcore) at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna and in Ravenna; the
modern prèmiere of Pacini's Don Giovanni (Ficcanaso); Paisiello's Il
matrimonio inaspettato (Giorgino) under the baton of Riccardo Muti at the
Salzburger Festspiele Pfingsten, in Ravenna and La Cenerentola (Dandini)
in Chieti, Teramo and Fermo (Italy).
Mr. Mastrototaro in the past seasons
performed: Conti's Don Chisciotte in Sierra Morena (Sancio Panza) at the
Musikwerkstatt in Wien; Gluck's Iphigénie en Aulide at the Teatro
dell'Opera di Roma under the baton of Riccardo Muti; Il Turco in Italia
(Prosdocimo) in Vicenza and Leipzig; La Gazza Ladra (Fabrizio
Vingradito) in Wildbad with Alberto Zedda; La Cenerentola (Don
Magnifico) at the Théâtre Municipal in Avignon, Vichy and at the Grand Théâtre
in Reims, conducted by Rizzi Brignoli; a semi-staged concert performance of Gianni
Schicchi (Marco) at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome under the
baton of Vladimir Jurowski; Adelia (Carlo Duca di Borgogna) and
Puccini's Messa di Gloria in Toblach led by Gustav Kuhn; La
Cenerentola (Dandini) in Potsdam; L'Elisir d'Amore (Dulcamara) in
Saint-Etienne and Rouen; Così fan tutte (Don Alfonso) with Jonathan
Webb and La Bohème at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples; Le Nozze di
Figaro (Figaro) in Potsdam; Andrea Chénier (Mathieu) at the
Bregenzer Festspiele with Ulf Schirmer; revivals of Il Turco in Italia
at the Oper Leipzig; Il Barbiere di Siviglia in Saint-Etienne under the
baton of Alberto Zedda; Così fan Tutte in Salzburg, Savona and Trento; La
Cenerentola in Massy and Wien; Il Barbiere di Siviglia in Trento; L'Elisir
d'Amore in Florence; L'Italiana in Algeri in Avignon and Valencia; Le
Nozze di Figaro in Frankfurt; La Traviata in Vienna; Il Turco in
Italia in Leipzig, Treviso, Ferrara and Catania;. La Bohème again in
Naples and La Traviata in Wien.
Most recently he sang the title role of Don
Checco and La Bohème (Schaunard) in Naples; L'Inganno Felice
at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro; Così fan tutte in Trento and
Savona; L'Italiana in Algeri (Haly) in Treviso and Ferrara and for the
role of Taddeo in Massy; La pietra del paragone (Pacuvio) and Tosca
(sagrestano) in Cagliari; Il Turco in Italia in Catania and Warsaw; La
Cenerentola (Don Magnifico) in Leipzig; L'Equivoco
stravagante (Gamberotto) at the Rossini in Wildbad; Un Giorno di Regno
at the Teatro Regio in Parma; Don Giovanni (Masetto) and La Cenerentola in Catania; Gianni Schicchi in Osimo; Matilde di Shabran and Romilda e Costanza at the Rossini Festival in Bad Wildbad; Il Barbiere di Siviglia in Vigo; he participated at the new production of Puccini's Tosca opening night at La Scala where he returned for Il Turco in Italia while at the Teatro del Maggio Fiorentino in Florence he starred in Lo sposo di tre marito di nessuna o Don Pistacchio.
His upcoming projects: L'Italiana in Algeri at the Teatro alla Scala; Tosca in Salzburg and Turandot at the Festival Puccini in Torre del Lago.
He recorded several CD productions for
Dynamic (Giordano's Siberia; Donizetti's Pietro il Grande;
and Cherubini's Lo sposo di tre, marito di nessuna); Naxos
(Rossini's La cambiale di matrimonio, La Gazzetta and L'Italiana
in Algeri with Alberto Zedda; and Pacini's Don Giovanni);
and Sony/RCA (Donizetti's Adelia). He also participated in the DVD
production of Rossini's La Cambiale di Matrimonio and Il
Turco in Italia for Bongiovanni.
March 2021