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, in Mendelssohn's Die erste Walpurgisnacht at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino.
Future engagements include: Lucia di Lammermoor (Edgardo) in Hanau in Germany; Die Zauberflöte (Monostatos) at the Teatro Municipale di Piacenza; Turandot (Pong) at the Festival Puccini di Torre del Lago; Macbeth (Malcom) and Pagliacci (Arlecchino) at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino; Le Nozze di Figaro (Basilio and Don Curzio), Il Cappello di paglia di Firenze (Felice), Lucrezia Borgia (Rustighello) and Macbeth (Malcom) at the Opera Royal de Wallonie Liège.
February 2025