A Roman baritone, Roberto Abbondanza trained with Isabel Gentile and furthered his studies at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and at the Musikhochschule in Cologne with Hartmut Höll. He was a finalist at the "Toti Dal Monte" Competition in Treviso, winner at the "Laboratorio Lirico" in Alessandria and at the "L'Accademia Barocca"Competition in Rome. Active in the Baroque repertoire, he collaborated with Fabio Biondi and Europa Galante (Scarlatti's Caino, Diapason d'or) and with Rinaldo Alessandrini and Concerto Italiano (Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, Choc de l'année 1999). He has performed in major theatres in Italy (La Scala, Maggio Musicale, Rome Opera, La Fenice) and internationally (Paris, Vienna, Tokyo, New York). An appreciated interpreter of the contemporary repertoire, he has premiered works by Colasanti, Bacalov, Battistelli, Glass, Morricone, Dallapiccola and Henze, receiving five Abbiati Awards (2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007).