Celebrated for a
velvety beauty of tone and elegant musicality as well as for his excellent
acting, Leonardo Caimi has established himself as one of the most
acclaimed
tenors of his generation, singing at prestigious venues and festivals such
as
the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Teatro alla Scala, the Teatro
Real in
Madrid, the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, the Teatro Colón in Buenos
Aires,
the Deutsche Oper Berlin, and the Salzburg Festival, amongst others.
Engagements in
the 2018/ 2019 season include his debut at the Royal Opera House Covent
Garden
as Don José in Carmen, Calaf in Turandot and Don José in
a new
production of Carmen at the Leipzig Opera, Roberto in Puccini’s Le
Villi
at the Maggio Musicale in Florence, Gustavo III in a new production of Un
ballo
in maschera at the Staatstheater Darmstadt, Henri in a new
production
of Verdi’s Les vêpres siciliennes at Theater Bonn, Cavaradossi in
Tosca
at the Aalto-Theater Essen, and Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly at
the
Teatro Villamarta in Jerez.
Other recent
engagements have included his role debut as Des Grieux in Massenet's Manon
at
the Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv; Calaf in Turandot at the Oper Köln
and at
the Opernfestspiele St. Margarethen; Cavaradossi in Tosca and
Hoffmann in
a new production of Les Contes d’Hoffmann at the Royal Opera House
Covent Garden, a new production of Les vêpres siciliennes in
Munich and
Bonn; La Rondine in Daegou; Carmen in Madrid, Simon
Boccanegra
at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Cavalleria Rusticana at La
Monnaie in
Brussels, Turandot at the Opera Wielki in Warsaw, Un ballo in
Maschera at the Municipal Theater of Rio de Janeiro, and Tosca at
the
Teatro Municipal de Santiago de Chile; Palla de' Mozzi, Die Lustige
Witwe, Beethoven's 9th Symphony, and Mozart's Requiem in
Cagliari;
Nabucco in Munich; Werther in Warsaw; La Traviata
in Naples; Don Carlo in Bonn; Madama Butterfly in Cardiff;
Les
vêpres siciliennes in Palermo; Aida and Carmen in
Tel Aviv; Manon
Lescaut in Cagliari.
Further career
highlights include Carmen at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin and a
very
successful debut of the role Calaf at the Leipzig Opernhaus and in
Cologne, as
well as La Bohème (Rodolfo) at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in
Florence, Madama Butterfly in Seoul and at La Monnaie, Adriana
Lecouvreur at the Teatro Colon de Buenos Aires, a concert
performance of Le
Villi for the RTVE at the Teatro Monumental in Madrid, Tosca at
the
Frankfurt Opera; La Rondine at the Puccini Festival in Torre del
Lago and in Pecs; Un
ballo in maschera
in
Bonn; I
Vespri siciliani in Bologna; Turandot in Helsinki; Il
Trovatore in Tel Aviv; Carmen in Prague; Tutino's La
Ciociara at the Wexford Festival Opera.
Plans
include: Puccini's
Messa di Gloria in Padoa with I Solisti Veneti; La Boheme
and Les Contes d'Hoffmann at the Royal Opera House in London
and Il Tabarro in Cardiff.
Mr. Caimi has
worked with many of the world’s most esteemed conductors and directors,
including R. Muti, L. Maazel, G. Gelmetti, D. Oren, C. Rizzi, E. Pidò, S.
Ranzani, Miguel Ángel Gómez-Martínez, Jean-Claude Cadadesus, Alain
Lombard, M.
Stefanelli, E. Queler, R. Brignoli; and directors F. Zeffirelli, R.
Lepage, S.
Vizioli, W. Pagliaro and M. Scaparro, L. Mariani, M. Martone, D.
Michieletto,
W. Decker, and Ettore Scola.
He graduated in
singing from the Conservatorio «A. Corelli» in Messina and in clarinet
from the
Conservatorio «F. Torrefranca» di Vibo Valentia, where he also studied
composition. Leonardo Caimi also obtained a degree with highest honors in
Philosophy
at the Università degli Studi di Messina.
January 2023