Simone Alberghini - Dandini
Italian bass-baritone Simone Alberghini, the 1994 Operalia Grand Prize winner, has
appeared in opera houses at the highest level world-wide since the beginning of
his career. Mr. Alberghini regularly collaborates with internationally renowned
conductors such as Alberto Zedda, Vladimir Jurowski, Riccardo Chailly, Zubin Mehta,
Andrew Davis, Gianandrea Noseda, Seiji Osawa, Maurizio Benini, Michele Mariotti,
Renato Palumbo, Emmanuel Villaume, Nicola Luisotti, Eduardo Muller and Teodor Currentzis.
Among his past engagements, it is worth mentioning : Semiramide (Assur)
at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples; Don Giovanni in Frankfurt and
at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice; Le Nozze di Figaro as Figaro
in Denver and as Conte d’Almaviva at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna; Zaira (Orosmane)
at the Martina Franca Festival; L’Elisir d’Amore at the Liceu in
Barcelona; La Bohème (Marcello) and L’Elisir d’Amore at
the Teatro Regio in Turin; Carmen at the Zurich Opera. He sang
Verdi’s Requiem with the Royal Philarmonic Orchestra, the Staatskapelle
Dresden under Sinopoli and with the LaVerdi in Milan under Chailly, with whom he
also sang Stravinsky’s Pulcinella in Leipzig with the prestigious
Gewandhausorchester. In Cagliari he sang Vaughan-William’s Serenade to Music
under Jeffrey Tate.
Simone Alberghini recently performed: Guillaume Tell at the Rossini
Opera Festival and at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna, Mariotti conducting and Vick
directing; Donizetti’s Il furioso all’ isola di San Domingo at the Donizetti
Musica Festival in Bergamo and in Savona, Modena, Ravenna and Piacenza; L’Elisir
d’Amore (Belcore) in Washington; Anna Bolena (Enrico
VIII) at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow; Così fan tutte (Guglielmo)
in Bologna; Don Giovanni (title role) at the Perm State Opera under Teodor
Currentzis; La Bohème (Marcello) in Tenerife; Les Contes d’Hoffmann in
Piacenza, Modena and Reggio Emilia; La Cenerentola (Dandini) in Washington
and in Göteborg; Mozart’s Requiem in Turin with the Orchestra Sinfonica
Nazionale della Rai; Donizetti’s Requiem with the Copenhagen Philharmonic
Orchestra.
Mr. Alberghini starred in the Rada Film opera movie La Cenerentola directed
by Carlo Verdone and conducted by Gianluigi Gelmetti, which has been telecast worldwide.
Future plans include: La gazza ladra at the Rossini Opera
Festival in Pesaro; La Bohème (Marcello) in Palermo; Così fan tutte
(Guglielmo) in Florence; Il Turco in Italia (Selim) in Piacenza and Ravenna;
Carmen in Bologna; Le Nozze di Figaro (Conte d’Almaviva) in Naples;
La fille du régiment (Sulpice) in Barcelona; he will also make his debut
as Conte di Luna in Il trovatore in Tenerife.
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