Mario Cassi - Belcore

Already well-established as one of the most appreciated baritones of his generation, Mr. Cassi regularly collaborates with conductors such as Roberto Abbado, Bruno Campanella, Riccardo Muti in the most prestigious theaters in Italy and abroad.

Mr. Cassi lately earned great success as Dottor Malatesta in Don Pasquale at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona, Antonio Albanese directing, as Figaro in Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Arena in Verona, in Naples, Florence and Tel Aviv, as Belcore in L’Elisir d’amore at the Staatsoper in Vienna, at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples and at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich under Asher Fisch, as Silvio in Pagliacci in Toulouse, as Danilo in The Merry Widow at the Teatro Regio in Turin, as Sharpless in Madama Butterfly, as Don Alvaro in Il Viaggio a Reims  in Amsterdam, in the new production by Damiano Michieletto conducted by Stefano Montanari. After performing Orff’s Carmina Burana with the Orchestra Toscanini under John Axelrod in Parma, Piacenza, Modena and at the Arena in Verona, and Dottor Malatesta at San Carlo in Naples, Mr. Cassi returned to Paris singing one of his most beloved role.

Plans: Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Figaro) at the Opéra in Monte Carlo; Don Pasquale (Malatesta) at the Wiener Staatsoper; Die Zauberflöte (Papageno), Don Giovanni (title role), La Traviata (Germont)  at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège; Lucia di Lammermoor at the Teatro Regio in Parma then on tour in Piacenza.