Stefano Secco began his studies of piano and singing under
the guidance of Alberto Soresina and subsequently received a diploma in
percussion with Tullio De Piscopo. Secco privately followed Maestri as Franco
Corelli, Franca Mattiucci and attended master classes led by Leyla Gencer and
Renata Scotto, among others.
After his first professional experiences and various tours
in Italy and abroad, he sang the role of Fenton in Falstaff at the
Teatro Verdi in Sassari and was immediately engaged by the Teatro dell'Opera in
Rome as soloist tenor for Puccini’s Messa di Gloria and Berlioz’s Te
Deum. On the same stage, he sang the role of Rodolfo in a successful
production of La Bohème.
Following these performances, Stefano was soon cast to sing
many important roles on the major stages worldwide, including: Rigoletto
(Duca di Mantova) at the Regio in Turin, Wiener Staatsoper, Opéra
du Capitole in Toulouse, Oper Frankfurt, Teatro Massimo in Palermo, La
Fenice in
Venice, Baltimore, Coruna, Arena of Avenches, Stockholm and Opéra
Bastille in
Paris; La Bohéme (Rodolfo) at the Teatro Regio in Parma, Teatro
dell’Opera in Rome, Opéra Bastille in Paris, at the Puccini Festival in Torre
Del Lago, in Wiesbaden and at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin; La Traviata
(Alfredo) in Venice, Tokyo, Barcelona, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Florence and under
the baton of Riccardo Muti at La Scala in Milan; Madama Butterfly
(Pinkerton) at the Opera in Rome, at the Puccini Festival in Torre
Del Lago and in Florence; Lucia di Lammermoor
(Edgardo) at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, in Liège and in Florence; Roberto
Devereux in Oviedo and in Vienna; Arturo in I Puritani
at the Teatro Bellini in Catania under the baton of G. Kuhn and recorded by
BMG; Gualtiero in Il Pirata in Amsterdam;
Nemorino in L’Elisir d’Amore at the Liceu in Barcelona and at Royal
Opera House in London; De Grieux in Massenet’s Manon in Geneve and Barcelona; Simon
Boccanegra (Gabriele Adorno) at the Opéra Bastille in Paris, at La Scala
and in Cagliari. He was highly praised at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona as Osiride in Mosè in Egitto. Stefano sang Rossini’s Stabat Mater at the Opera in Rome and Berlioz’s Roméo et Juliette
at the new Auditorium Parco della Musica in a live radio broadcast
under Chung; the role of Don Carlo at Opéra Bastille in a new and
successful
production directed by G. Vick; Luisa Miller (Rodolfo) in Munich; a new production of Macbeth at the Opéra Bastille
in Paris; Werther (title role) in Frankfurt and then in
Bari, Bologna, Vienna and Baden Baden; Gounod’s Faust
(title role) at the San Francisco Opera.
Other past engagemnts inluded:
La Traviata at La Fenice in Venice and at the Regio in Turin; Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly conducted in San Francisco, Seattle and Berlin; La Bohème in
Munich and Rome; I due Foscari in Trieste; Macbeth and Simon
Boccanegra in Bilbao besides Placido Domingo in Los Angeles under the
baton of James Conlon; Rigoletto in Monte-Carlo; Verdi’s Requiem
in Frankfurt; Un Ballo in Maschera at the Macerata Festival; Roméo
et Juliette at the Arena di Verona; Roberto Devereux in
Marseille; I
Masnadieri in Naples; Carmen in Venice; Les Contes d’Hoffmann
at the Opéra Bastille and Macbeth in Madrid and at La Scala; Verdi’s Messa
da Requiem inFrankfurth, in Moscow with La Scala for the new opening of the Bolshoi
Theatre and in St. Petersburg with the Teatro Regio di Parma.
Most recently he performed in Nabucco, Roméo
et Juliette and Un ballo in maschera at the Arena di Verona; Madama
Butterfly in Barcelona, Dresden, Chicago, Tokyo and Florence; Simon
Boccanegra, Werther and Tosca in Vienna and Munich; La Traviata in Palermo; Edgardo in Lucia di
Lammermoor in Salerno; Macbeth and La Traviata at La Fenice in Venice; Rigoletto and Macbeth in Cagliari; the Ney Year Concert Gala in
Algeri with the Teatro alla Scala in Milan under P. Carignani; Un ballo in
maschera (Riccardo) in Nantes and Rennes; I Masnadieri in
Valencia; Gounod's Faust in Nice; Stabat Mater in Trieste; La Bohème in Bari; Luisa Miller in Marseille and Stiffelio in Mulhouse and Strasbourg.
Plans include: Il Prigioniero with the London Symphony Orchestra and Stiffelio in Dijon.
Stefano Secco's discography includes: DVD Petite
Messe Solennelle, R. Chaillyconducting; DVD Macbeth, Opera
Paris (BelAir) T. Currentzis conducting; DVD Roméo et Juliette, Arena
di Verona (BelAir); DVD Tosca, Torre del Lago Puccini; CD Favourite
Italian Songs, Piano D. Abramovitz (Naxos); CD Simon Boccanegra
(Studio Recording for Delos Records).
May 2022