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Adolfo Corrado – bass
Michele d’Elia – piano
The Italian singer Adolfo Corrado (*1994) was the first bass in the history of the famous BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition to take the Absolute Winner prize. For this fine artist, it was “a dream come true…” The BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition celebrated its fortieth anniversary in June 2023. It is one of the most important and probably the most influential world competition. It embarked world careers of many singers such as Bryn Terfel or Dmitri Hvorostovsky.
Native of the Italian city Scorrano, Adolfo Corrado graduated from Tito Schipa Conservatory of Music in Lecce, and continued his musical studies in Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, in the house’s Young Artist Project. His previous engagements include guest appearances at many important scenes, such as Milan’s La Scala (Andrea Chénier, May 2023), Teatro Petruzzelli (Don Pasquale, Il barbiere di Siviglia, La bohème), Palau de Les Arts Reina Sofia (Don Giovanni), Teatro La Fenice in Venice (La bohème). In March 2024, he will be Alidoro (La cenerentola) in Toulouse, followed by Lorenzo (I Capuleti e i Montecchi) in Liège in May, and Timur (Turandot) in Palermo in September.
The singer will be accompanied by Michele d'Elia, an Italian pianist who collaborates with a number of renowned singers and works as a singing consultant at the La Scala Academy. Together, they will present the most beautiful opera arias of the Italian bel canto, as well as songs from Corrado's native region of Apulia, which he will sing in the local dialect.
The patronage of this and other projects was provided by the Minister of Culture Mgr. Martin Baxa.
JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU (1683–1764)
Nature, amour, qui partagez mon cœur (Pollux)
Castor et Pollux, Act II
GEORG FRIEDRICH HÄNDEL (1685–1759)
Invida sorte avara (King of Scotland)
Ariodante, Act II
ANTONIO VIVALDI (1678–1741)
Se il cor guerriero (Tito)
Tito Manlio, Act I
DOMENICO SCARLATTI (1685–1757)
Sonate pour le clavecin in do minore, L 126
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756–1791)
Madamina, il catalogo è questo (Leporello)
Don Giovanni, Act I
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Non più andrai farfallone amoroso (Figaro)
Le nozze di Figaro, Act I
GIOACHINO ROSSINI (1792–1868)
Marche et réminiscences pour mon dernier voyage
from Péchés de vieillesse, volume IX, no. 7
for piano solo
GIOACHINO ROSSINI
La calunnia è un venticello (Basilio)
Il barbiere di Siviglia, Act I
GAETANO DONIZETTI (1797–1848)
Vieni: la mia vendetta è meditata e pronta (Alfonso d'Este)
Lucrezia Borgia, Act I
RICHARD WAGNER (1813–1883) / FERENC LISZT (1811–1886)
Paraphrase for piano solo on “O du mein holder Abendstern”
GIUSEPPE VERDI (1813–1901)
Vieni, o Levita… Tu sul labbro dei veggenti (Zaccaria)
Nabucco, Act II
CHARLES GOUNOD (1818–1893)
Le veau d'or est toujours debout (Méphistophélès)
Faust, Act II
This concert runs without an interval.
Program is subject to change
