Umberto Chiummo - Don Magnifico

After winning the "A. Belli” Competition in Spoleto, Umberto Chiummo made his debut in Le Nozze di Figaro, staged by Gigi Proietti. Much appreciated also for his qualities as an actor, he performs in major opera houses and festivals in Italy and abroad, collaborating with conductors such as Ivor Bolton, Bruno Campanella, Myung-Whun Chung, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti and Wolfgang Sawallisch. Recent engagements include: La Calisto at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Agrippina at the Teatro Real in Madrid and in Antwerp, Giulio Cesare alongside Cecilia Bartoli with William Christie and Les Arts Florissants in Paris; Le Nozze di Figaro at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice and in Munich; La Cenerentola in Strasbourg then on tour in Mulhouse and Colmar; Mozart’s Great Mass in C minor with the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI under Ivor Bolton; La Cenerentola in Treviso and Ferrara; Die Schöpfung in Belfast; Mozart’s Requiem at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples; Le Nozze di Figaro in Munich. He has recorded Rodelinda, Ariodante, Don Giovanni (Telarc), I Capuleti e i Montecchi (BMG) with Roberto Abbado, Werther (BMG) under the baton of Vladimir Jurowski.

Future plans:  Così Fan Tutte in Antwerp; L’Occasione fa il Ladro at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris; Rodelinda in Madrid; Don Giovanni (title role) in Tokyo.