Roberto Scandiuzzi studied with Anna Maria Bicciato in his native Treviso
and made his debut at La
Scala in Milan in 1982 with
Le nozze di
Figaro under of 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: at the
Metropolitan Opera, the Opéra-Bastille in Paris, Royal Opera House Covent
Garden, State Operas of
Vienna and Munich, the 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, the Orchestras of Chicago, San Francisco,
Philadelphia, Boston and
Los Angeles, the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala, Maggio Musicale
Fiorentino, the Accademia
Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Orchestre National de Paris and Orchestre
National de France, the
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 more recent successes are Boito's
Mefistofele in Torino, Don
Giovanni and Mefisto in Faust
at the Rome Opera, new productions of Macbeth,
I quattro
Rusteghi by Wolf Ferrari and La
Gioconda in Zurich, Faust in
Madrid, Filippo II in Dresden,
Madrid, Florence and Toulouse, Fiesco in Nizza e Genova, 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 conducting after that he
starring in Don Pasquale in Tokyo
and Padoa, Don Carlos in Liege
and Vienna, Norma and Attila
in Timisoara, La Gioconda and Il Barbiere di Siviglia and Boris
Godunov in Toulouse, Aida
and Rigoletto in Australia, Samson
et Dalila at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples and Sani's Falcone,
il tempo sospeso del volo in Trento with the Haydn Orchestra, Don
Pasquale in Las Palmas, Ernani in Cagliari and Manon
in Oviedo.
January 2024