Umberto Chiummo
Bass-Baritone -
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Won the "A. Belli”
Competition in Spoleto, making 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 ROH Covent Garden,
Agrippina at the Teatro Real in Madrid
with Alan Curtis, Giulio Cesare
alongside Cecilia Bartoli with William Christie and Les
Arts Florissants in Paris.
He has recorded Don Giovanni (Telarc),
I Capuleti e i Montecchi (BMG) with
Roberto Abbado, Werther (BMG) under
the baton of Vladimir Jurowski.