Born in Abruzzo in 1998, Lorenzo Martelli won 1st prize in the ‘Emerging
Voices’ category and the Audience prize at the 74th edition of the
‘AsLiCo’ 2023 Competition, the ‘Best Tenor’ prize at the CLIP ‘9° Concorso
Città di Portofino’, and the 1st prize and audience prize at the 3rd
‘Marmo all'Opera’ Competition in Carrara.
He began studying singing at a very young age, graduating in trumpet and
opera singing under the guidance of Maestro Antonella Cesari at the
Conservatorio ‘A. Casella’ in L'Aquila at the age of 23.
He specialised by winning competitions in Academies such as: Accademia
del Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa 2021, Bottega Donizetti in Bergamo 2022
and Accademia del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in the Biennium 2022-2024.
He studied with artists such as Donata D'Annunzio Lombardi and Vincenzo
Spatola, with whom he is currently studying, and then with Giovanna
Casolla, Leone Magiera, Giuseppe Sabbatini, Marco Boemi, Sergio Bologna,
Giulio Zappa, Michele D'Elia, Eva Mei, Vittorio Terranova, Francesco Meli,
Roberto De Candia and many others.
He has been conducted by conductors of the calibre of Zubin Mehta,
Daniele Gatti, Daniele Callegari, Giampaolo Bisanti, Marco Boemi, Fabrizio
Maria Carminati, Michele Spotti, Dian Tchobanov and Alessandro Bonato,
Jacopo Sipari di Pescasseroli, Ivan Fischer, Lorenzo Fratini, Daniel
Smith, Jacopo Brusa, Massimo Raccanelli, Giuseppe La Malfa, James Meena,
Theodor Guschlbauer, Vincenzo Milletarì, Giuseppe Acquaviva and Marc
Moncusi.
Debuted roles include: Nemorino in L'Elisir d'amore at the Teatro
Carlo Felice in Genoa; Don Ramiro in La Cenerentola (performances
for children) at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples; Don Ottavio in Don
Giovanni at the Teatro Comunale in Ferrara and at the Daegu Opera
House in South Korea; Pippetto in L'Ajo nell'imbarazzo at the
Teatro Donizetti in Bergamo; Don Polidoro in La finta semplice at
the Teatro Goldoni in Florence; Remendado in Carmen at the Maggio
Musicale Fiorentino conducted by Maestro Zubin Mehta; Basilio and Don
Curzio in Le Nozze Di Figaro at the Teatro Comunale di Ferrara;
Fenton in Falstaff at the Chigiana in Siena; Duca di Mantova in Rigoletto
at the Chigiana in Siena; Monostatos in Die Zauberflöte at the
Teatro Sociale di Como, Teatro Ponchielli di Cremona, Teatro Grande di
Brescia, Teatro Fraschini di Pavia and Teatro Comunale di Ferrara; Tamino
in Die Zauberflöte at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino; Gherardo in
Gianni Schicchi at the Teatro del Giglio di Lucca; Rinuccio in Gianni
Schicchi at the Teatro Petrarca in Arezzo conducted by Maestro
Fabrizio Maria Carminati; Ernesto in Don Pasquale at the Maggio
Musicale Fiorentino conducted by Maestro Daniele Gatti, in Siena for the
Chigiana also conducted by Maestro Daniele Gatti and as a cover at the
Teatro Donizetti in Bergamo; Pang in Turandot at the Maggio
Musicale Fiorentino conducted by Maestro Zubin Mehta; Pong in Turandot
at the Teatro Sociale di Como conducted by Maestro Jacopo Brusa;
Edgardo in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor at the Teatro
dell'Opera Romana di Craiova and as a cover at the Teatro Donizetti di
Bergamo; soloist in Krönung-Messe K317 at the Maggio Musicale
Fiorentino conducted by Maestro Zubin Mehta, in Petite Messe
Solennelle at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and at the Theatre
Royal de La Monnaie in Brussels, and in Mendelssohn's Die erste
Walpurgisnacht at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino.
Among his most recent engagements are: Lucia di Lammermoor
(Edgardo) in Hanau, Germany; Die Zauberflöte (Monostatos) at the
Teatro Municipale di Piacenza; Der Junge Lord (Professor von
Mucker) at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino; Gianni Schicchi
(Rinuccio) in Arezzo; and Le Nozze di Figaro (Basilio and Don
Curzio) at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège.
Highlights of the 2025-26 season include: Macbeth (Malcolm) and Pagliacci
(Harlequin) at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino; Il cappello di paglia
di Firenze (Felice) and Lucrezia Borgia (Rustighello) at the
Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège; and Mozart's Krönungsmesse with the
Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano.
October 2025