After winning prestigious musical competitions, Roberto made his debut singing Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor at the Teatro Donizetti of Bergamo and has been soon catapulted to the forefront of today’s Belcanto tenors. His ‘virile, glistening voice’ (The New York Times), ‘appealingly natural sense of Italianate phrasing!’ (The Boston Globe), ‘fluid phrasing and an exciting, ringing top’ (San Francisco Chronicle), are celebrated by press and audiences alike. The season 2010/11 saw him give two critically acclaimed debuts: at the Metropolitan Opera of New York in Simon Boccanegra conducted by James Levine – ‘a notable Met debut’ (New York Times), ‘It’s his house debut, and he couldn’t have provided a better one’ (Huffington Post) – and at the Opéra Bastille in Paris performing Luisa Miller. His other notable appearances include Verdi’s Messa da Requiem conducted by Lorin Maazel at the Festival Verdi of Parma, La traviata at Teatro La Fenice conducted by Myung Whun Chung and directed by Robert Carsen, and a concert version of Norma with the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Charles Dutoit at Tanglewood Festival. Roberto has also performed in La Traviata at the Opéra de Montréal, Ernani at the MET, in Macbeth at Teatro Comunale di Bologna conducted by Roberto Abbado, and in Simon Boccanegra at the Wiener Staatsoper and at the Musikverein of Vienna with the Wiener Symphoniker, conducted by Fabio Luisi. Recent highlights include Nabucco at Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, La Traviata at the Opéra National du Rhin of Strasbourg, Madama Butterfly in the MET production of the Oscar Winner Anthony Minghella, I due Foscari at The Concertgebouw of Amsterdam, Carmen at Teatro Aurora in Malta, Teatro Massimo di Palermo and Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Lucia di Lammermoor and Madama Butterfly in Toulon, as well as recitals in Helsinki and Vienna.
In 2025 Roberto debuts as Turiddu in Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana with the Sacramento Philharmonic and then as Manrico in Verdi’s Il Trovatore with Opera Colorado.
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