Massimo Altieri
Tenor
The tenor Massimo Altieri was born in Rovigo and in 2004 graduated from the conservatory in Bologna with a degree in classical guitar. In the same year he became a member of the Coro Polifonico Città di Rovigo, and began to study singing intensively. Since 2007 he has worked with leading ensembles in the field of early music and beyond, including La Compagnia del Madrigale and Cantica Symphonia (Giuseppe Maletto), Cantar Lontano (Marco Mencoboni), De labyrintho (Walter Testolin), i Disinvolti (Massimo Lombardi), Odhecaton (Paolo Da Col), Ensemble Arte Musica (Francesco Cera), Modo Antiquo (Federico Maria Sardelli), Accademia d’Arcadia (Alessandra Rossi Lürig), Ars Cantica (Marco Berrini), laBarocca (Ruben Jais), Il Canto di Orfeo and Les Musiciens du Prince — Monaco (Gianluca Capuano), Concerto Italiano (Rinaldo Alessandrini), Accademia Bizantina (Ottavio Dantone) and Coro della Radiotelevisione svizzera and I Barocchisti (Diego Fasolis).
In 2016 he was a soloist in Monteverdi’s Vespro della Beata Vergine at the festival Vicenza in Lirica and at the Frari church in Venice. In 2017 he made his debut at the Schwetzingen Festival in Monteverdi’s three surviving operas with La Venexiana under Davide Pozzi. This was followed by solo appearances in Mozart’s Requiem and Handel’s Messiah with the Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana, as First Shepherd (L’Orfeo) under Ottavio Dantone in Ravenna and Ferrara, in Monteverdi’s Vespro della Beata Vergine with La Fonte Musica at the Vienna Konzerthaus, as Tempo in Handel’s Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno under Fasolis at the Opéra de Lausanne and as Nicola in Vanni Moretto’s De vernuftige edelman Don Quichot van La Mancha, an opera composed for Opera2Day and performed in several theatres in the Netherlands.
Recent engagements have included L’Orfeo and Vespro della Beata Vergine at the Salzburg Whitsun Festival and the Opéra de Monte-Carlo, Historicus in Carissimi’s Jephte and Sailor (Dido and Aeneas) in concert performances with il Pomo d’Oro under Maxim Emelyanychev at venues including the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, the Barbican Centre in London and the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, L’Orfeo under Dantone at the Zurich Opera House and Vespro della Beata Vergine, also under Dantone, in Cremona.
Massimo Altieri is a member of Walter Testolin’s ensemble RossoPorpora, with which he appeared on the album L’amor-oso & crudo stile, dedicated to Luca Marenzio’s music, and a recording of Monteverdi’s Sixth Book of Madrigals. With La Fonte Musica, he also participated in a four-CD recording of the complete works of the early Renaissance composer Zacara da Teramo, which has won numerous prestigious awards.
