Hailed as an extraordinarily versatile artist, Marcello Giordani has a repertory which encompasses a wide and diverse range of roles, spanning from the Bel Canto operas of Rossini, Donizetti and Bellini and the lyricism of French operatic repertoire, to the more dramatic roles of Verdi, Puccini and Berlioz and, most recently, the popular Verismo operas of Mascagni and Leoncavallo: Cavalleria Rusticana and I Pagliacci.

Mr. Giordani has established an extraordinary international career, performing regularly on the world’s most prestigious concert stages and opera houses including Teatro alla Scala, Metropolitan, Covent Garden in London, Opernhaus in Zürich, Wiener Staatsoper, Opéra National de Paris, Liceu in Barcelona, Deutsche Oper in Berlin, San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, Teatro Regio in Parma, Teatro Regio in Turin, Teatro Massimo “V. Bellini” in Catania, Arena di Verona, Festival Pucciniano in Torre del Lago, working with the world’s leading conductors including Daniele Gatti, James Levine, Zubin Mehta, Antonio Pappano and Georg Solti.

A regular guest of the Metropolitan Opera in New York, where he made his debut in 1993, he performed in several other productions, such as Madama Butterfly, La Gioconda, La bohème, Simon Boccanegra, Carmen, Un ballo in maschera, Ernani, Turandot, Roméo et Juliette, Manon Lescaut, Lucia di Lammermoor, Madama Butterfly e La fanciulla del West.

He opened the 2012/13 season gaining a great success with La forza del destino at Liceu de Barcelona, followed by his Metropolitan Opera return with the acclaimed performances of Turandot and Les Troyens. Subsequently he returned to Italy to perform Un ballo in maschera at Teatro Bellini di Catania. Among other recent engagements it is worth mentioning: L’Africaine and Edgar with Opera Orchestra of New York; Faust at Teatro alla Scala, Tosca and Un ballo in maschera at Wiener Staatsoper; Tosca at Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, at Covent Garden in London and at Deutsche Oper in Berlin; Cavalleria rusticana at Opéra National de Paris; Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci at Liceu de Barcelona; La forza del destino at Teatro of Maggio Musicale Fiorentino; Les Troyens by Berlioz with Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Marcello Giordani’s future plans include Tosca at Deutsche Oper in Berlin, at Liceu in Barcelona and in Seoul; Aida and Tosca at Wiener Staatsoper in Vienna; Turandot at the Teatro dell’ Opera in Rome and at the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago; Carmen and Tosca at Munich Staatsoper, La fanciulla del west and Turandot in Bilbao; Les Troyens at the San Francisco Opera; Carmen in Dresden; Un Ballo in Maschera in Hamburg; Pagliacci in Cagliari. On the concert side, he will perform in a series of lyric concerts at the Wigmore Hall in London, in Toronto, in Tokyo and in Moscow. In the next seasons Mr. Giordani will be engaged in important productions at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.