Charles Castronovo

 Charles Castronovo performs regularly at leading international opera houses. In the 2024/25 season he appeared as Des Grieux (Manon) at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía in Valencia, as Riccardo (Un ballo in maschera) at the Zurich Opera House and the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, in the title role of Don Carlos at the Paris Opéra, as Don José (Carmen) at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and most recently as Carlo (I masnadieri) in Munich.

On the concert platform he sang the tenor solo in Verdi’s Messa da Requiem with the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia under Daniel Harding in Rome, Ruggero in a concert performance of Puccini’s La rondine at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo and Max in a concert performance of Der Freischütz with the Kammerakademie Potsdam under Antonello Manacorda.

In the 2023/24 season he sang Don Carlos (in the French version) at the Grand Théâtre de Genève, Riccardo at the Metropolitan Opera in New York and Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly) at the Teatro Real in Madrid. He also sang the title role of Ernani and Cavaradossi (Tosca) in concert performances with the Munich Radio Orchestra.

Other recent highlights have included Rodolfo (Luisa Miller) at the Glyndebourne Festival, the title role of L’amico Fritz at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Pinkerton in Munich, Des Grieux at the Wrocław Opera, Puccini’s Messa di Gloria at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Don Carlos at the National Opera in Bucharest, Des Grieux and Pinkerton at the Vienna State Opera, Maurizio (Adriana Lecouvreur) at the Teatro Municipale Giuseppe Verdi in Salerno and Jason in Cherubini’s Médée under Daniel Barenboim at the Berlin State Opera.

Charles Castronovo was born in New York and grew up in California. He began his singing career at the Los Angeles Opera, and completed the Lindemann Young Artists Development Program of the Metropolitan Opera in New York, where he made his debut in 1999 as Peppe (Pagliacci) alongside Plácido Domingo. His early engagements included Tamino (Die Zauberflöte), Fenton (Falstaff) and the title role of Faust at the Pittsburgh Opera, Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni) and Ernesto (Don Pasquale) at the Boston Lyric Opera, Ferrando (Così fan tutte) and Nemorino (L’elisir d’amore) at the Portland Opera, Alfredo (La traviata) at the Minnesota Opera, Belmonte (Die Entführung aus dem Serail) at the Opera Colorado and Elvino (La sonnambula) and Rodolfo (La bohème) at the Detroit Opera.