Roberto Tagliavini

Roberto Tagliavini (born December 6, 1976 in Parma ) is an Italian opera singer ( bass ).

Life

Tagliavini was trained by the baritone Romano Franceschetto . In 2005 he made his debut at the Teatro Regio di Parma in Gluck's Alceste . His career has since taken him to major European opera houses, his repertoire ranges from Mozart to Rossini , Bellini and Donizetti to Verdi . In 2009 he was voted the best performer of the season for the performance of Selim in Il turco in Italia at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste, and in 2010 he won as Loredano in I due Foscari and in Verdi's Requiem under Lorin Maazel - both at the Verdi Festival in Parma Award as the best young singer.

Since then, Tagliavini has been regularly present at La Scala in Milan (as Lord Sidney in Rossini's Il viaggio a Reims , as well as Ramphis and Pharaoh Ramses in Verdi's Aida ). In the Arena di Verona he also appeared in Aida and as Ferrando in Il trovatore . He sang Figaro -Grafen in Toulon, the Raimondo in Genoa, the Lord Walton at Teatro Real in Madrid, the Basilio in Palermo and Zurich , the Count Rodolfo in St. Gallen, the Uberto at Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Lodovico to the Opéra Bastille in Paris, the Figaro in Seville and the Frère Laurent in Bilbao. When Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in 2011, the singer made his debut as King in Aida , followed by a concert version of Les pêcheurs de perles (as Nourabad) at the Teatro Real, the title role in Verdi's Attila in Verona and Shanghai, Il trovatore on a Japan tour of Scala, Turandot in Rome and Lucia di Lammermoor in Liège.

In 2014 he was heard and seen Domingo's opponent Jacopo Loredano in I due Foscari at the Theater an der Wien .

Tagliavini made his debut at the Salzburg Festival in 2007: staged as Bernardino in Berlioz ' Benvenuto Cellini , in 2013 he was seen as Talbot in the concert performance of Verdi's Giovanna d'Arco alongside Anna Netrebko and Plácido Domingo . In 2016 it was announced that Tagliavini would be featured as King in Aida in 2017 .