Ildebrando D'Arcangelo

Ildebrando D'Arcangelo (born 1969) is an Italian bass-baritone opera singer.

Biography

A Native of Pescara, Abruzzo, 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.[1]

From 1989 to 1991 he sang at the Concorso Internazionale Toti Dal Monte at Treviso, debuting in Mozart's Cosi fan tutte and Don Giovanni. He has performed under conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Valery Gergiev, Christopher Hogwood, Georg Solti, Bernard Haitink, Riccardo Muti,[2] John Eliot Gardiner, Riccardo Chailly, Myung-Whun Chung, Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Seiji Ozawa. He has sung at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, at the Opéra National (Bastille) in Paris, at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, at the Staatsoper in Vienna, at the Theater an der Wien and at the Salzburger Festspielen.

Ildebrando D'Arcangelo released solo albums of Handel arias in September 2009 and Mozart arias in April 2011 from Deutsche Grammophon.

Repertoire

His repertory features, above all, classical opera, including:

Discography

DVD

References

  1. ^ "Ildebrando D'Arcangelo." Classical Artist Biographies. All Media Guide, 2008. Answers.com 30 Jan. 2009. http://www.answers.com/topic/ildebrando-d-arcangelo
  2. ^ Gazzetta di Parma, October 10, 2007, page 34: Muti mette l'accento su Verdi, retrieved January 30, 2009.
  3. ^ The Opera Quarterly 18.1 (2002) 139-142
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i Biography of the artist on the website of the "Opera Rara" label
  5. ^ The Opera Quarterly 1997 13(3): 168-175.
  6. ^ Peter Branscombe. Operas familiar and unfamiliar. Early Music 2008 36(3): 494-498.
  7. ^ The Opera Quarterly 1994 10(4):159-163
  8. ^ The Opera Quarterly 2001 17(1): 136-141.
  9. ^ George Jellinek in The Opera Quarterly 2001 17(1): 144-145.
  10. ^ Bruce Burroughs in The Opera Quarterly 2001 17(2): 311-320.
  11. ^ Gramophone 11/98, pp.115-18.
  12. ^ The Opera Quarterly - Volume 18, Number 3, Summer 2002, pp. 438-441.
  13. ^ The Opera Quarterly 21.3 (2005) 563-566.