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Ildebrando D'Arcangelo
With his powerful stage presence and the unmatched richness of his voice, Ildebrando D’Arcangelo is celebrated by critics and the public alike as one of today’s most exciting bass baritones. He is particularly noted for his interpretations of Mozart’s Figaro, Don Giovanni and Leporello while his repertoire also includes a vast selection of roles from the bel canto era by Bellini, Donizetti and Rossini as well as from the baroque repertoire by Monteverdi, Handel and Vivaldi. A Native of Pescara, D'Arcangelo began his studies in 1985 at the conservatory of Luisa D'Annunzio in Pescara, under Maria Vittoria Romano, honing his skills under Paride Venturi in Bologna.
Ildebrando D’Arcangelo won the “Toti dal Monte” International Competition in Italy in 1989 and 1991, and, thereafter, made his operatic debut in Mozart’s Così fan tutte and Don Giovanni. The lush, dark quality of his voice, combined with great musicality and keen dramatic instincts, soon brought him prestigious symphonic and operatic engagements with Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Chailly, John Eliot Gardiner, Daniele Gatti, Valery Gergiev, Christopher Hogwood, Renè Jacobs, Riccardo Muti, Seiji Ozawa, Antonio Pappano, Sir Georg Solti and others. He is now a regular guest at La Scala, the Vienna State Opera, the Theater an der Wien, the Liceu Barcelona, London’s Royal Opera, Opéra Bastille, the Metropolitan Opera, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Salzburg and Baden Baden Festivals.
This season Mr. D’Arcangelo returns in the title role for new productions of Don Giovanni at the Festspiele Baden-Baden, the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Vienna State Opera. In Vienna he will further appear as Enrico VIII in a new production of Donizetti’s Anna Bolena as well as Guglielmo in Cosi fan tutte – a role that will also take him to the Opéra Bastille. In summer he will be heard at the Salzburg Festival in Rossini’s “Stabat Mater” conducted by Antonio Pappano. Future engagements include Don Giovanni at La Scala and Los Angeles Opera as well as returns to the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Vienna State Opera and Gran Teatre de Liceu.
The previous season included Rossini’s Il Turco in Italia (Royal Opera House Covent Garden) and La Cenerentola (Théâtre des Champs-Elysées) and Bizet’s Carmen (Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Vienna State Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper). Mr. Ildebrando D’Arcangelo has become an exclusive recording artist with Deutsche Grammophon in 2009. His first solo-disc, a recording of Handel arias for bass was released in fall 2009 to great critical acclaim. A solo album of Mozart arias was released in April 2011.