Max René Cosotti made his debut in Rigoletto at the Teatro Grande in Brescia, after winning the 21st edition of the "As.Li.Co." Competition, the 26th edition of the "Teatro alla Scala" Competition and the "Voci Verdiane" Competition of the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa.
Thanks to his natural inclination for character roles, he prefers a repertory that includes: I Pagliacci (Arlecchino); Madama Butterfly (Goro); La Traviata (Gastone); Falstaff (Cajus and Bardolfo); Carmen (Remendado); Manon Lescaut (Edmondo); Lucia di Lammermoor (Arturo); Francesca da Rimini (Malatestino); Il Compleanno dell'Infanta (Nano); Turandot (Pang, Pong); Adriana Lecouvreur (Abate di Chazeuil); Andrea Chénier (Incredibile); Il Convitato di Pietra; La Vedova Scaltra; I Quatro Rusteghi (Riccardo); Bastiano e Bastiana; La Danza delle Libellule; Die Fledermaus (Blind); Die Lustige Witwe; La Bajadera; La Cenerentola; Il Barbiere di Siviglia; Il Turco in Italia; La Rondine; Don Pasquale; L'Elisir d'Amore; La Sonnambula; Angélique; and Orfeo all'Inferno (Aristeo and Plutone).
He is regularly invited to perform at numerous prestigious opera houses (Bologna, Venice, Naples, Trieste, Turin, Rome, Palermo, Verona, Cagliari, Florence, Nice, Toulouse and Innsbruck) and international festivals, such as the Glyndebourne Opera Festival, the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto and the Salzburg Festspiele. In 1992, he received the "Abbiati" Award by Italy’s critics.
His career highlights include: La Bohème (Alcindoro and Benoit) at the New Israeli Opera; Die Fledermaus (Alfred), Die Zauberflöte and Al Cavallino Bianco at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo; L'Incoronazione di Poppea and Manon Lescaut at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna; Francesca da Rimini and Respighi's Marie Victoire at the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome; Gurlit's Wozzeck, Manon Lescaut and Khovanchina at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale in Florence; Lucia di Lammermoor at the Opéra de Montecarlo; La Traviata at the Teatro Lirico in Cagliari; Duchessa di Chicago (Bondy), Werther (Schmidt), Al Cavallino Bianco, Les Dialogues des Carmélites and Turandot at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste; Turandot (Imperatore Altoum) at the Terme di Caracalla in Rome; Le Nozze di Figaro (Basilio) in Klagenfurt; Il Campiello in Bologna and Tokyo; Falstaff (Cajus) in Cleveland, Lucerne, Berlin and New York; Eva in Naples; Die Lustige Witwe in Rome, Palermo, Cagliari, Bologna and Modena; Ariadne auf Naxos (Maestro di ballo) in Lausanne; Fedora in Genoa; Orphée aux Enfers in Palermo, Turin, Novara and Trieste; and Eugene Onegin (Lenskij) in Florence, Rome and Klagenfurt.
He recently performed: Die Lustige Witwe (Raoul de St. Brioche) in Bari, in Padua, Turin and Rovigo; Turandot as Imperatore Altoum at the Teatro Regio in Parma and Bari and as Pong in Naples, Vicenza and Rovigo; Manon Lescaut in Trieste; La Zingara at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège; Orphée aux Enfers and La Sonnambula in Cagliari; Lombardo’s Il Re Nudo in Rome; La Traviata in Pescara; Carmen in Rovigo, Padova and Bassano; Rigoletto in Padova; Anna Bolena and L'Amico Fritz in Trieste; Rigoletto and Carmen in Rovigo; La Bohème in Savona; Il Campiello in Trieste; Turandot in Rome and Genoa; Madama Butterfly in Padua.