Roberto Scandiuzzi studied with Anna Maria Bicciato in his native town
Treviso and made his debut at La Scala in Milan in 1982 with Le nozze
di Figaro under Riccardo Muti.
Shortly thereafter he achieved his first great international success as
Fiesco in Simon Boccanegra at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden
conducted by Georg Solti.
Today he is one of the most renowned singers of the operatic world and
enthuses the audience with his vocal beauty, his round and noble timbre
and his electrifying stage presence. He is often compared with famous
basses such as Ezio Pinza and Cesare Siepi, by whom he was strongly
influenced. Roberto Scandiuzzi frequently appears at the most prestigious
opera houses worldwide: Metropolitan Opera, Opéra-Bastille in Paris, Royal
Opera House Covent Garden, State Operas of Vienna and Munich, San
Francisco Opera and Zurich Opera House, as well as with the leading
symphonic orchestras such as: the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonic, Royal
Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestras of
Chicago, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Boston and Los Angeles, Orchestra
Filarmonica della Scala, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Accademia Nazionale
di Santa Cecilia, Orchestre National de Paris and Orchestre National de
France, Symphony Orchestra of Bavarian Radio and the Munich Philharmonic.
The vast list of conductors he worked with, includes celebrities such
as: Claudio Abbado, Sir Colin Davis, Valéry Gergiev, Christoph Eschenbach,
Gian Luigi Gelmetti, James Levine, Fabio Luisi, Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta,
Riccardo Muti, Seiji Ozawa, Myung Whun Chung, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Georges
Prétre, Marcello Viotti and Wolfgang Sawallisch.
His repertoire is based on the great bass role by Giuseppe Verdi as
Filippo II, Fiesco, Silva, Zaccaria, Padre Guardiano, Attila and Roger,
but includes as well operas such as Mefistofele or La
Gioconda, the French repertoire with Gounod's Faust,
Massenet's Don Quichotte, Arkel in Pelléas et Melisande,
Pere Laurent in Romeo et Juliette and the Russian repertoire
including Boris Godunov, Dosifiej in Chovanshtchina and Gremin.
Furthermore he sung several world premieres of operas by Lorenzo Ferrero
(La figlia del mago, Mare Nostro, Charlotte Corday, Salvatore Giuliano).
In January 2007 Roberto Scandiuzzi celebrated the 25th anniversary of his
career and was made Ambassador of UNICEF.
He has a huge number of recordings on CD and DVD including Simon
Boccanegra (Decca), Don Carlo, Jerusalem and Aroldo
(Philips), Verdi's Requiem und La Gioconda (EMI), Cristoforo
Colombo (Koch), Rossinis Stabat Mater, Rigoletto and
Dvorak's Stabat Mater (DGG), La Sonnambula (Nightingale),
La Bohème (Erato), Macbeth (Sine Qua Non - Eurostar).
Among Roberto Scandiuzzi's past successes are: Boito's Mefistofele
in Turin, Don Giovanni and Mefisto in Faust in Rome, Macbeth,
I quattro Rusteghi by Wolf Ferrari and La Gioconda in
Zurich, Faust in Madrid, Conte Walter in Luisa Miller in
London, Don Quichotte in Amsterdam and Tokyo. In April 2019
Roberto Scandiuzzi made his debut at the Berlin State Opera in the role of
Isaac Mendoza in Prokofiev's The Engagement in the Monastery with
Daniel Barenboim and then in Don Pasquale in Tokyo, Padua and Las
Palmas, Don Carlos in Liege and Vienna, Norma and Attila
in Timisoara, La Gioconda, Il Barbiere di Siviglia and Boris
Godunov in Toulouse, Aida and Rigoletto in Australia,
Samson et Dalila at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Sani's Falcone,
il tempo sospeso del volo in Trento with the Haydn Orchestra, Ernani
in Cagliari and Manon in Oviedo.
More recently, he has taken part in productions of Boris Godunov
at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, Don Carlo at the Royal Danish
Opera in Copenhagen and at the Finnish National Opera in Helsinki, Manon
at the Teatro Regio in Turin, La Forza del Destino in Essen, and Norma
and Adriana Lecouvreur at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse.
Among the engagements for the 2025-26 season are: Macbeth
in Pisa; and Verdi’s Requiem in Essen.
August 2025