Mario Cassi - Dottor Malatesta

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 and at the Arena in Verona, where he also debuted as Figaro in Il Barbiere di Siviglia.