Alessandro Corbelli

Alessandro Corbelli was born in Turin and studied with Giuseppe Valdengo and later with Claude Thiolas. He was 22 when he made his professional stage debut, after which he rapidly made a name for himself as a leading exponent of the baritone roles in bel canto and Mozart operas.

Alessandro Corbelli has appeared in every major opera house. At La Scala, Milan, where he made his debut in 1989, he has been heard in Così fan tutte, Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, La Cenerentola, Le Comte Ory, Lodoïska and Fedora, while Covent Garden audiences have heard him in L’italiana in Algeri, La Cenerentola, Così fan tutte, Don Pasquale, Il turco in Italia, La Fille du régiment, Il barbiere di Siviglia and Adriana Lecouvreur. At the Paris Opéra he has appeared in La Cenerentola, L’italiana in Algeri, Così fan tutte, Madama Butterfly, Gianni Schicchi, La Fille du régiment and Adriana Lecouvreur and at the Vienna State Opera in Così fan tutte, Le nozze di Figaro, I puritani and La Cenerentola. Since making his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in 1997 as Dandini in La Cenerentola, he has been heard in New York as Taddeo (L’italiana in Algeri), Dulcamara (L’elisir d’amore), Gianni Schicchi, Don Magnifico (La Cenerentola) and Sulpice (La Fille du régiment). He has also appeared in Munich, Cologne, Geneva, Madrid, Barcelona, Toulouse, Rome, Naples, Bologna, Florence and Turin as well as the Edinburgh and Glyndebourne Festivals and the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro. He made his Salzburg Festival debut in 1990 as Don Alfonso (Così fan tutte), returning most recently for Taddeo in 2018.

In 2019/20 Alessandro Corbelli was heard as Don Magnifico in Zurich, Vienna and Bologna and also returned to Chicago as Bartolo (Il barbiere di Siviglia). He sang Don Alfonso at the 2021 Glyndebourne Festival, subsequently appearing as Don Magnifico in Tokyo and Los Angeles and as Michonnet (Adriana Lecouvreur) at La Scala. Following his Salzburg performances in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Alessandro Corbelli will appear as Marchese Giulio Antiquati in Donizetti’s L’aio nell’imbarazzo at the Donizetti Opera Festival in Bergamo in a production based on the new critical edition of the score. He will also be heard in the title role in Don Pasquale at the Liceu in Barcelona.

Among Alessandro Corbelli’s many honours and awards are a Premio Abbiati for his Leporello (Don Giovanni) at La Scala and the Rossini d’Oro for his performances as Geronio (Il turco in Italia) in Pesaro.