On December 13, 2019, Massimo Cavalletti will sing the role of Don Carlo in Ernani at the Teatro Verdi of Pisa, in a production by Pier Francesco Maestrini under the musical direction of Maestro Matteo Beltrami, sharing the stage with Migran Agadzhanian in the title role, Alexandra Rosa Zabala as Elvira and Simon Orfila as Don Ruy Gomez de Silva. There will be an additional performance on December 15, 2019. This will be the first Teatro Verdi Pisa appearance for […]
On November 22, 2019, Massimo Cavalletti will sing the role of the Conte di Luna in Il trovatore, the inaugural production of the 2019/2020 season of the Teatro Carlo Felice Genoa, in a staging by Marina Bianchi and under the musical direction of Maestro Andrea Battistoni, the first of a series of three performances running through November 27, 2019. He will share the stage with Marco Berti in the title role, Vittoria Yeo as Leonora and Violeta Urmana as Azucena. […]
On October 30, 2019 Massimo Cavalletti will sing the role of Conte di Luna in Il trovatore at the Teatro Giuseppe Verdi of Salerno, in a new production by Renzo Giaccheri under the musical direction of Maestro Daniel Oren, the first of a series of three performances running through November 3, 2019. He will share the stage with Gustavo Porta in the title role, Irina Moreva as Leonora, Violeta Urmana as Azucena and Carlo Striuli as Ferrando. Massimo Cavalletti made […]
On October 20, 2019 Massimo Cavalletti will debut the role of Don Carlo in Ernani at the Teatro Coccia in Novara, in a production by Pier Francesco Maestrini under the musical direction of Matteo Beltrami, sharing the stage with Migran Agadzhanyan in the title role, Courtney Mills as Elvira and Simon Orfila as Don Ruy Gomez de Silva. This is Massimo Cavalletti’s fourth debut in a Verdi part in a little more than one year: in the previous season he […]
On September 10, 2019, Massimo Cavalletti will sing the role of Belcore in L’elisir d’amore at the Teatro alla Scala, in a Grischa Asagaroff production under the musical direction of Maestro Michele Gamba, the first of a series of ten performances running through October 10, 2019. He will share the stage with Rosa Feola as Adina, René Barbera / Vittorio Grigolo as Nemorino and Ambrogio Maestri as Dulcamara. Massimo Cavalletti debuted the role of the swaggering soldier at the Glyndebourne […]
On July 15, 2019 Massimo Cavalletti will reprise the role of Francesco Moor in I masnadieri, with the forces of the Teatro alla Scala of Milan on tour to the Savonlinna Opera Festival, in a production by David McVicar and under the musical direction of Maestro Michele Mariotti, the first of three performances running through July 20, 2019. As in Milan, he will share the stage with Lisette Oropesa (Amalia), Fabio Sartori (Carlo) and Michele Pertusi (Massimiliano). Massimo Cavalletti’s Milan […]
On June 18, 2019 Massimo Cavalletti will make his role debut as Francesco in Verdi’s I masnadieri at the Teatro alla Scala, in the premiere of a new staging by David McVicar. Michele Mariotti will conduct. There will be six further performances, with the last one on July 7, 2019. The cast will also include Michele Pertusi as Massimiliano, Fabio Sartori as Carlo, and Lisette Oropesa as Amalia. This will be Cavalletti’s third Verdi role debut of the 2018/2019 […]
On March 31, 2019, Massimo Cavalletti will return to La Scala in a new production of Manon Lescaut by David Pountney, singing Lescaut. Riccardo Chailly will conduct. Maria José Siri will sing Manon, Marcelo Álvarez / Roberto Aronica Des Grieux, and Carlo Lepore Geronte. There will be nine performances, running through April 27, 2019. Cavalletti has sung Lescaut at the world’s most esteemed opera houses. Highlights include debuting the Richard Eyre production at the Metropolitan Opera, which was broadcast in […]
On February 10, 2019 Massimo Cavalletti will make his debut at the Teatro Filarmonico of Verona in a concert organized by the Associazione musicale Verona Lirica in collaboration with Fondazione Arena di Verona, with Roberto Corlianò on the piano and the Quartetto d’archi of the Arena di Verona. Other soloists include Cinzia Forte (soprano) and Eduardo Aladren (tenor). [Photo by Dario Acosta]
On January 25, 2019 Massimo Cavalletti will make his role and house debut as Giorgio Germont in La traviata at the Palm Beach Opera, in a production by Fabio Ceresa and under the musical direction of Antonello Allemandi, the first of a series of three performances running through January 27, 2019. He will share the stage with Kristina Mkhitaryan / Jacqueline Ecols as Violetta and Alexey Tatarintsev / Derrek Stark as Alfredo Germont. Germont is the second of three Verdi […]