Mauro Borgioni
The baritone Mauro Borgioni studied singing at the Scuola Civica in Milan and at the Cesena Conservatory, and continued his studies at the Fondation Royaumont. He has performed at some of the most important European concert halls and theatres, including the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Teatro Regio in Turin, Cité de la Musique in Paris, the Cologne Philharmonie and the Auditorio Nacional in Madrid, and has also appeared at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing and the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA).
The baritone has worked with ensembles including Concerto Italiano, the Orchestra da Camera di Mantova, the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai, La Capella Reial de Catalunya, the Orchestra Lorenzo da Ponte, the Kölner Akademie and Concerto Romano, and with renowned conductors and musicians such as Rinaldo Alessandrini, Jordi Savall, Antonio Florio, Timothy Brock, Juraj Valčuha, Jonathan Webb and Lorenzo Ghielmi.
As a specialist in the Baroque repertory, he has sung the title role of Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo in Turin, Ferrara and at the Teatro Escola Basileu França in Brazil, Ulisse (Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria) and Alessandro Melani’s L’empio punito at the Reate Festival in Rome, Aeneas in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas in Cesena, Gorizia and Ravenna and Haman in Handel’s Esther and Polyphemus in Acis and Galatea at the Teatro Comunale di Ferrara.
Mauro Borgioni is also at home in contemporary and 20th-century repertory. He has sung Traveller in Britten’s Curlew River and Noah in Britten’s Noye’s Fludde with the Camerata Strumentale di Prato under Jonathan Webb and Aye in Philip Glass’s Akhnaten with the Orchestra of the Teatro Regio in Turin under Dante Anzolini.
His concert repertory includes Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, Mass in B minor, St John Passion and St Matthew Passion, Handel’s Messiah and La resurrezione, Haydn’s ‘Nelson’ Mass and the Requiems by Mozart and Fauré. Mauro Borgioni has participated in numerous recordings for record labels and radio and television stations such as Brilliant Classics, Stradivarius, Fra Bernardo, Ricercar and the ORF.