Alessandro Corbelli
Alessandro Corbelli (born September 21, 1952 in Turin ) is an Italian opera singer with a baritone voice .
Life
Youth and education
Corbelli was born in Turin in 1952 and grew up in a musical family. He studied singing with Giuseppe Valdengo and Claude Thiolas.
Career
He made his debut in 1973 (at the age of 21) in Aosta in Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto . He then performed at La Scala in Milan (in all three Da Ponte operas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart under conductor Riccardo Muti ) and in the cities of Turin , Verona , Bologna , Florence and Naples as well as at the major opera houses in Switzerland , France , Austria , Germany , Spain , Israel , the United Kingdom and North and South America . At the beginning of his career Corbelli sang lyrical baritone roles, but his natural talent for comedy prompted him to switch to the comic field. The Buffo roles he sang and recorded include Dr. Bartolo in Gioachino Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia , Taddeo in Rossini's L'italiana in Algeri , Don Geronio in Rossini's Il turco in Italia , Dr. Dulcamara in Gaetano Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore and the title role in Donizetti's Don Pasquale . Corbelli often showed his versatility by singing two roles from the same opera: including Figaro and Count Almaviva in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro , Leporello and the title role in Mozart's Don Giovanni , Guglielmo and Don Alfonso in Mozart's Così fan tutte and Dandini and Don Magnifico in Rossini's La Cenerentola .
At the Royal Opera House in London , Alessandro Corbelli had 87 appearances as Taddeo in L'italiana in Algeri between his debut in 1988 and March 2012 alone . Other roles of Corbelli's at the Royal Opera House were Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte (8 appearances in 1997), Doctor Malatesta in Don Pasquale (13 appearances in 2004 and 2006), Don Magnifico in La Cenerentola (10 appearances in 2007 and 2008), Doctor Bartolo in Il barbiere di Siviglia (6 appearances in 2009) and Michonnet in Francesco Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur (8 appearances in 2010).
On November 26, 2007, while rehearsing for La Cenerentola in London , Corbelli jumped in at the last minute for a production of L'elisir d'amore at the Royal Opera House . He sang the role of Belcore in the second half of the opera from the side of the stage while Ludovic Tézier , who had sung the first half with a sore throat, played the role.
From his debut in 1997 to March 2012, Corbelli had 64 appearances at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City , including 26 as Dandini in La Cenerentola , 7 as Dulcamara in L'elisir d'amore , 15 in the title role of Giacomo Puccini's Gianni Schicchi , 8 as Sergeant Sulpice in Gaetano Donizetti's La fille du régiment and 8 as Taddeo in L'italiana in Algeri .
In the years 2013-2017 he led his engagements as Don Pasquale in Donizetti's opera at the Opera House in Glyndebourne , his Don Bartolo in Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the opera houses in Palermo , London, Glyndebourne, San Francisco , Chicago , Los Angeles , his Gianni Schicchi for Teatro Regio , his Don Magnifico in La Cenerentola the Metropolitan Opera, Vienna State Opera , Lyric Opera of Chicago , the di Teatro dell'Opera Roma , to de Opéra Monte Carlo , the Concertgebouw and the Opéra royal de Versailles be Don Geronio in Il turco in Italia for Aix-en-Provence Festival , the Royal Opera, the Teatro Municipal de Santiago , the Théâtre du Capitole Toulouse and the Bavarian State Opera Don Alfonso in his Cosi fan tutte for Houston Grand Opera be Michonnet in Adriana Lecouvreur to Paris , Naples and Buenos Aires , his Dulcamara in L'elisir d'amore to the Metropolitan Opera and the Ópera de Oviedo , his Dandini in La Cenerentola to the Opéra de Monte-Carlo, the Concertgebouw and the Opéra Royal de Versailles, his Bruschino Padre in Il signor Bruschino by Rossini to the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées , his Sharpless in Puccini's Madama Butterfly to the Arena di Verona Opera Festival and his Fra Melitone in Verdi's La forza del destino at De Nationale Opera in Amsterdam.
Although Corbelli is primarily associated with roles in Italian-language comic operas, he also shows his versatility in French and German roles (Sulpice in Donizetti's La fille du régiment , Papageno in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte ), baroque operas (Seneca in Claudio Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea ) and an English-language opera of the 20th century (Nick Shadow in Igor Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress ). He has also sung roles in later Italian comic operas, for example the title roles in Verdi's Falstaff and Puccini's Gianni Schicchi .
Alessandro Corbelli has contributed to numerous recordings, including Francesco Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur (Royal Opera House, Covent Garden) and Puccini's Gianni Schicchi (Glyndebourne).
He is also active in the concert hall and appears as a soloist in oratorios and vocal symphonies.
repertoire
| composer | Opera | role |
|---|---|---|
| Daniel-François-Esprit Auber | Fra Diavolo | Signor Rocburg |
| Luigi Cherubini | Lodoïska | Varbel |
| Francesco Cilea | Adriana Lecouvreur | Michonnet |
| Gaetano Donizetti | L'ajo nell'imbarazzo | Marchese Don Giulio Antiquati |
| Gaetano Donizetti | Don Pasquale | Dottor Malatesta |
| Gaetano Donizetti | Rita | Gasparo |
| Gaetano Donizetti | Linda di Chamounix | Marchese de Boisfleury |
| Gaetano Donizetti | L'elisir d'amore | Belcore |
| Gaetano Donizetti | L'elisir d'amore | Dulcamara |
| Gaetano Donizetti | Roberto Devereux | Duca di Nottingham |
| Umberto Giordano | Fedora | De Siriex |
| Ruggero Leoncavallo | Pagliacci | Silvio |
| Claudio Monteverdi | L'Orfeo | Ottone |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | So fan tutte | Guglielmo |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | So fan tutte | Don Alfonso |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Don Giovanni | Don Giovanni |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Don Giovanni | Leporello |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Le nozze di Figaro | Figaro |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Le nozze di Figaro | Conte di Almaviva |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | The Magic Flute | Papageno |
| Giovanni Paisiello | Il barbiere di Siviglia | Figaro |
| Giovanni Battista Pergolesi | Lo frate 'nnamorato | Marcaniello |
| Niccolò Piccinni | La buona figliuola | Mengotto |
| Francis Poulenc | Dialogues des Carmélites | Marquis de la Force |
| Giacomo Puccini | Turandot | Ping |
| Giacomo Puccini | Madama Butterfly | Sharpless |
| Giacomo Puccini | La bohème | Marcello |
| Giacomo Puccini | Gianni Schicchi | Gianni Schicchi |
| Luigi Ricci | Crispino e la comare | Fabrizio |
| Gioachino Rossini | Il barbiere di Siviglia | Bartolo |
| Gioachino Rossini | Il barbiere di Siviglia | Figaro |
| Gioachino Rossini | La Cenerentola | Alidoro |
| Gioachino Rossini | La Cenerentola | Dandini |
| Gioachino Rossini | La Cenerentola | Don Magnifico |
| Gioachino Rossini | Le comte Ory | Raimbaud |
| Gioachino Rossini | L'italiana in Algeri | Haly |
| Gioachino Rossini | L'italiana in Algeri | Taddeo |
| Gioachino Rossini | L'occasione fa il ladro | Martino |
| Gioachino Rossini | La pietra del paragone | Pacuvio |
| Gioachino Rossini | La scala di seta | Germano |
| Gioachino Rossini | Il signor Bruschino | Gaudenzio |
| Gioachino Rossini | Il signor Bruschino | Bruschino Padre |
| Gioachino Rossini | Il turco in Italia | Prosdocimo |
| Gioachino Rossini | Il turco in Italia | Geronio |
| Johann Strauss (son) | The bat | Gabriel von Eisenstein |
| Igor Stravinsky | The Rake's Progress | Nick Shadow |
| Tommaso Traetta | Le serve rivali | Don Grillo |
| Giuseppe Verdi | Falstaff | ford |
| Giuseppe Verdi | Falstaff | Sir John Falstaff |
| Giuseppe Verdi | Rigoletto |
Awards
- 1992/93: Critics' Prize Premio Abbiati for his interpretation of the Leporello in Don Giovanni at La Scala in Milan
- Premio Rossini d'Oro for his Don Geronio in Il turco in Italia in Pesaro
literature
- International Who's Who in Classical Music. Europa Publications Ltd., London 2003.
Web links
- Alessandro Corbelli at Operabase (engagements and dates)
- Great Opera Singers: Alessandro Corbelli
- ROH Interview: Alessandro Corbelli in La Cenerentola at the Royal Opera
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alessandro Corbelli BARITONES. Retrieved February 2, 2018 .
- ^ A b Great Opera Singers: Alessandro Corbelli. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 7, 2011 ; accessed on February 1, 2018 (English).
- ^ Corbelli in Performance Database. Retrieved February 1, 2018 .
- ↑ L'elisir d'amore - November 26, 2007 Evening 7.30pm. Retrieved February 1, 2018 .
- ↑ Metopera Database. Retrieved February 1, 2018 .
- ↑ Alessandro Corbelli, baritone. Retrieved February 1, 2018 .
- ↑ a b c BIOGRAPHY Alessandro Corbelli. Retrieved February 2, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Corbelli, Alessandro |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian opera singer with a baritone voice |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 21, 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Turin |