Umberto Chiummo - Lorenzo

After winning the “A. Belli” Competition in Spoleto, Umberto Chiummo made his debut in Le Nozze di Figaro, Gigi Proietti directing. 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, 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; Così Fan Tutte in Antwerp; L’Occasione fa il ladro in Paris. He 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: Le Nozze di Figaro in Amsterdam and at the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari; Rodelinda at the Teatro Real in Madrid.