Ildebrando D’Arcangelo

Hailed by critics for his stage presence and glorious basso cantabile voice, Ildebrando D’Arcangelo has made an outstanding name for himself as Mozart’s Figaro, Count Almaviva, Leporello and Don Giovanni. In recent years he has added a number of major Verdi roles to his repertoire, most notably Attila, Fiesco (Simon Boccanegra) and Banco (Macbeth) as well as Méphistophélès in Gounod’s Faust and in Berlioz’s La Damnation de Faust.

Ildebrando D’Arcangelo’s career has taken him to many of the world’s foremost opera houses, including the Vienna and Berlin State Operas, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, the Paris Opéra, La Scala, Milan, the Teatro Real in Madrid and the Metropolitan Opera in New York. He made his Salzburg Festival debut in 1996 as Mozart’s Figaro, subsequently returning as Leporello and Don Giovanni. Among the conductors with whom he has worked are Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Muti, Myung-Whun Chung, John Eliot Gardiner, Bernard Haitink, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Tugan Sokhiev and Antonio Pappano.

Ildebrando D’Arcangelo was a prizewinner at the International Toti Dal Monte Singing Competition in Treviso in 1989 and again in 1991. In addition to the aforementioned composers, his extensive repertoire also encompasses works by Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, Handel, Bizet, Boito and Stravinsky. Some of his finest performances have been released on DVD by labels that include Deutsche Grammophon, Decca and Virgin Records.

His more recent engagements include Count Almaviva and Escamillo (Carmen) at the Berlin State Opera, Méphistophélès (Faust) and Philippe II (Don Carlos) in Liège, Alvise (La Gioconda) at the Liceu in Barcelona, Don Giovanni at the Dresden Semperoper, Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte) and Alidoro (La Cenerentola) for the Los Angeles Opera, Escamillo at the Grand Théâtre de Genève, Gounod’s Méphistophélès at the Zurich Opera and Berlioz’s Méphistophélès in a concert performance at the Philharmonie de Paris.