Alfonso Antoniozzi

Italian baritone and director Alfonso Antoniozzi studied singing with Sesto Bruscantini and made his professional stage debut at the age of 21  as Bartolo (Il barbiere di Siviglia) at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, marking the launch of a brilliant career that has taken him to some of the world’s most famous opera houses, notably La Scala, Milan, Rome, New York, Madrid, Amsterdam, Monte Carlo, Florence, San Francisco, London, Paris, Turin, Barcelona, Glyndebourne, Parma, Houston, Bologna, Tokyo, Naples, Zurich, Hong Kong, Seattle, Macerata, Hamburg, Palermo, Toulouse, Berlin, Beijing, Macau, Valencia, Dallas, Bilbao, Verona, Tel Aviv, Lima and Muscat.

His wide-ranging repertoire includes the great buffo roles of Mozart (Così fan tutte, Don Giovanni), Rossini (Il turco in Italia, La Cenerentola, Matilde di Shabran, Il viaggio a Reims, L’italiana in Algeri, L’occasione fa il ladro), Donizetti (L’elisir d’amore, Don Pasquale, Il campanello), Offenbach (Les Contes d’Hoffmann) and Verdi (Falstaff, La forza del destino). Among 20th- and 21st-century works, he has been heard in Adriana Lecouvreur, Il cappello di paglia di Firenze, Les Mamelles de Tirésias, Death in Venice, Candide, Battistelli’s Divorzio all’italiana and three world premieres of operas by Marco Tutino: The Servant, Miseria e nobiltà and Le braci.

Alfonso Antoniozzi appeared as the Sacristan in Davide Livermore’s production of Tosca under Riccardo Chailly that opened the 2019/20 season at La Scala. Other leading conductors with whom he has appeared include Valery Gergiev, Riccardo Muti, Bruno Campanella, Claudio Scimone, Zubin Mehta and Alberto Zedda. Among the directors with whom he has worked are Dario Fo, Pier Luigi Pizzi, Giancarlo Cobelli, Virginio Puecher, Lina Wertmüller, Gabriele Lavia, Arturo Cirillo, Stefano Vizioli, Alfredo Arias and Jean-Pierre Ponnelle.

Recent and forthcoming engagements include Anna Bolena in Genoa, Roberto Devereux in Venice, Il turco in Italia in Sassari, L’ABC del buffo in Pesaro, La Bohème and Tosca at La Scala, Offenbach’s Pépito in Ancona and Tosca under Zubin Mehta in Florence.

Since 2008 Alfonso Antoniozzi has also been active as a director. Among his productions have been Il barbiere di Siviglia and Gianni Schicchi in Astana and at the Tuscia Opera Festival, Don Pasquale in Bologna, La traviata in Cagliari, Ōtsu and Bologna, Le nozze di Figaro in Buenos Aires, Salieri’s La grotta di Trofonio in Martina Franca and Naples, Il turco in Italia in Pavia, Como and Cremona, Kagel’s Il tribuno and Krenek’s Der Diktator in Martina Franca, Roberto Devereux in Genoa and Parma, Anna Bolena in Parma and Aida and Maria Stuarda in Genoa.