Winner of the 2019 Oscar della Lirica, Riccardo Zanellato made his debut
with Donizetti's Dom Sébastien at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna
and at the Teatro Donizetti di Bergamo.
His extended vocal range and soft singing lead him to interpret Verdi's
repertoire as well as that of Bellini, Donizetti and serious Rossini.
Successes in the past seasons include: Attila and La
battaglia di Legnano (Parma), Rigoletto (Parma, Macerata,
Caracalla, Teatro alla Scala, Turin, Liège), Otello (Paris), Simon
Boccanegra (Rome, Catania, Lyon, Dresden), Nabucco (Rovigo,
Ravenna, Rome, Parma, Savonlinna Festival, Stuttgart, Leipzig, Maggio
Musicale Fiorentino, Kiev), Aida (Naples,Turin,Verona,Valencia), Trovatore
(Lausanne,Verona,Salzburg), Macbeth (Rome, Staatsoper Berlin,
Bologna, Tel Aviv ), Luisa Miller (Barcelona, Bilbao, Lyon), Maria
Stuarda (Bergamo, Reggio Emilia), Anna Bolena (Bergamo,
Brescia, Parma, Helsinki, Turin and on tour in Japan), Lucia di
Lammermoor (Florence, Naples, Macerata,Venice, Wiesbaden), Norma
(Rovigo, Catania, Palermo, Warsaw, Turin, Montevideo, Verona and on
tour in Japan), Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Parma, Padua), I
Puritani (Amsterdam, Cagliari, Lecce).
He also performed: Verdi's Requiem in Berlin with the Berliner
Philarmoniker and Chailly and with the Konzerthausorchester and Valcuha,
in Munich with the Bayerische Rundfunks and Muti, in Vienna with the
Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Muti, in Bucharest with Luisi, in Hamburg
with the NDR Sinfonieorchester, at the Theatre des Champs-Elysées in Paris
and in Copenhagen, Parma, Barcelona, Ravenna, Florence, Santander, Sofia,
Palermo, Ljubljana, Eltville, Ankara, Venice and Bergen; Rossini's Stabat
Mater in Buenos Aires, Barcelona, Ljubljana, Tanglewood and Vicenza;
Mozart's Requiem in Vicenza; Bruckner's Te Deum in Bari;
and Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in St. Denis with the Orchestrere
de la Musique in St. Denis with the Orchestre National de France.
He collaborates with such conductors as: Muti, Chailly, Gatti, Viotti,
Mariotti, Abbado, Pappano, Battistoni, Rustioni, Renzetti and
internationally renowned directors: Catena, De Ana, Abbado, Muscato, Vick,
Wilson, Maestrini, Pier'Alli.
Recent engagements include: Rigoletto at the Royal Opera House
Muscat, at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa and at the Terme di Caracalla;
Aida at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, at the Arena in Verona and
at the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome; Lucia di Lammermoor at the
Bayerische Staatsoper; Macbeth at the Opernhaus Zurich; Simon
Boccanegra at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège, at the Teatro
Regio in Parma, at the New National Theatre in Tokyo, at the Finnish
National Opera in Helsinki and at the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome; Don
Giovanni at the Teatro Regio in Turin; I Vespri Siciliani at
the Teatro Comunale di Bologna; Nabucco at the Grand Theatre de
Genève; La Juive at the Teatro Regio di Torino; I Puritani in
Dresden; La Bohème at the Royal Opera House Muscat; La vita è
sogno at the Teatro Malibran in Venice; Mosè in Egitto at
the Teatro Valli in Reggio Emilia; Norma at the Maggio Musicale
Fiorentino; Hamlet at the Teatro Regio in Turin; Rossini's Stabat
Mater in Ljubljana; and Verdi's Requiem at the Theatre des
Champs-Elysèes in Paris, at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, at the Teatro
Comunale Pavarotti in Modena, at the Teatro Regio in Parma, in Ljubljana,
Ankara, with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and on tour in Italy with
the Teatro Alighieri in Ravenna.
Among his engagements for the 2025–26 season are: Nabucco at
the Teatro Mayor in Bogotá, the Teatro Comunale in Modena, and the Teatro
Valli in Reggio Emilia; and Macbeth at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa.
August 2025