Mario Cassi - Figaro
Already well-established as one of the most appreciated baritones of his
generation, Mr. Cassi regularly collaborates with conductors such as Riccardo
Muti, Bruno Campanella, Roberto Abbado, in the most prestigious theaters in
Italy and abroad.
Mr. Cassi recently earned a great success as Dottor Malatesta in Don
Pasquale for the season’s opening night at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona,
Antonio Albanese directing, as Figaro in Il Barbiere di Siviglia in
Naples, Florence and Tel Aviv, as Belcore in L’Elisir d’amore at the
Staatsoper in Vienna and at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, as Silvio in Pagliacci in
Toulouse, as Danilo in The Merry Widow at the Teatro Regio in Turin, as
Sharpless in Madama Butterfly, as Don Alvaro in Il Viaggio a Reims
in Amsterdam, in the new production by Damiano Michieletto conducted by Stefano
Montanari, and as Belcore in in L’Elisir d’Amore in Munich, under Asher
Fisch.
He recently sang Orff’s Carmina Burana with the Orchestra Toscanini under
John Axelrod in Parma, Piacenza and Modena.
Plans: Il Barbiere di
Siviglia (Figaro) in
Monte Carlo; Don Pasquale (Malatesta) in Naples and Vienna; L’Elisir
d’amore (Belcore) at the Opéra in Paris; Die Zauberflöte (Papageno), La
Traviata, Don Giovanni (title role) in Liège; Lucia di Lammermoor in
Parma and Piacenza.
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