Biography

Renato Dolcini

The bass-baritone Renato Dolcini was born in 1985 in Milan and studied singing with Vincenzo Manno while completing a degree in musicology at the University of Pavia. In 2009 and 2010 he participated in the Gstaad Vocal Academy, working with Cecilia Bartoli. In 2015 he became a member of William Christie’s academy Le Jardin des Voix. He subsequently toured with Les Arts Florissants, performing throughout Europe, and in the USA, Russia, Australia, Korea, China and Japan.

Highlights of past seasons have included Caldara’s Dafne under Stefano Montanari at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, a Monteverdi programme under John Eliot Gardiner at the Monteverdi Tuscany Festival, Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro) under René Jacobs for the Foundation Royaumont, Alidoro (La Cenerentola) with Europa Galante under Fabio Biondi, Leporello (Don Giovanni) in Milan and Florence (with a CD recording for Warner Classics), Satiro in Rossi’s Orfeo under Raphaël Pichon in Versailles and Bordeaux, Danao in Cavalli’s Ipermestra under Christie at the Glyndebourne Festival, Ottone (L’incoronazione di Poppea) in Nantes, Aeneas (Dido and Aeneas) on tour with Christie and Les Arts Florissants, Handel’s Messiah with the ensemble laBarocca in Milan, Bach’s Christmas Oratorio in Milan and Handel’s La Resurrezione on tour (both with La Risonanza under Fabio Bonizzoni), Landi’s La morte di Orfeo under Christophe Rousset at the Dutch National Opera, Seneca (L’incoronazione di Poppea) in his Salzburg Festival debut under Christie in 2018, Guglielmo (Così fan tutte) with Les Ambassadeurs under Alexis Kossenko in Périgueux and Bach’s St John Passion with Les Arts Florissants on a European tour to venues including the Amsterdam Concertgebouw and the Philharmonie de Paris.

His recent engagements include Guglielmo at the New Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv, Claudio (Agrippina) at the Teatro Real in Madrid, Toante (Oreste) and Farasmane (Radamisto) on tour with Il Pomo d’Oro, Alessandro Scarlatti’s Il martirio di Santa Teodosia at the Festival de La Chaise-Dieu, Curio (Giulio Cesare) for La Scala, Milan, Bellone, Osman and Adario (Les Indes galantes) under Leonardo García Alarcón at the Grand Théâtre de Genève and King of Scotland (Ariodante) at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.

In the 2022/23 season, prior to his performances as Monteverdi’s Orfeo at the Salzburg Whitsun Festival, Renato Dolcini appeared in Cavalieri’s Rappresentatione di anima, et di corpo under Giovanni Antonini at the festival Wratislavia Cantans, in the Monteverdi programme Combattimento on tour with L’Arpeggiata, as Leporello in Tokyo and as Orfeo at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo. His future projects include Sartorio’s Orfeo in Montpellier, Haydn’s Orlando Paladino with Il Giardino Armonico on tour to Spain, and Platée at the Zurich Opera House.

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