Roberto Aronica

INTRODUCTION

Roberto Aronica possesses a spinto voice of seldom power and nerve and has been a leading tenor figure on the international scene for more than a decade.

RECENT AND FUTURE ENGAGEMENTS

Among his most recent engagements are:

• Des Grieux/Manon Lescaut at Teatro alla Scala Milano;
• Cavaradossi/Tosca at Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Teatro Arriaga Bilbao and at Opera Hong Kong;
• Dick Johnson/La fanciulla del West at Teatro Regio di Torino;
• the title role in Otello, Des Grieux/Manon Lescaut, Manrico/Il Trovatore, Cavaradossi/Tosca and Luigi/Il Tabarro at Teatro Comunale di Bologna;
• Don Alvaro/La Forza del destino at Teatro Comunale di Bologna and Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino;
• Riccardo/Un Ballo in Maschera at Teatro San Carlo in Naples;
• Des Grieux/Manon Lescaut at Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi di Trieste;
• Radamès/Aida at New National Theatre Tokyo;
• Don José/Carmen w. Opera Australia;
• Samson/Samson and Dalila at Washington National Opera.

His future engagements include (a.o.):

• Des Grieux/Manon Lescaut at Teatro Regio di Torino;
• Luigi/Il Tabarro at Teatro Comunale di Bologna;
• the title role in Otello at Teatro Coccia di Novara and Teatro Sociale di Rovigo;
• Calaf/Turandot at Teatro La Fenice di Venezia;
• Cavaradossi/Tosca at Teatro Petruzzelli di Bari and in Wiesbaden;
• Radamès/Aida at Aalto Theater Essen.

BIOGRAPHY

​Born in Civitavecchia, tenor Roberto Aronica studied singing with Carlo Bergonzi. After his debut in Rigoletto at Teatro Municipal de Santiago (Chile), he became a guest of the most important theatres of the world, such as Teatro alla Scala, the Metropolitan Opera of New York, the Opéra de Bastille in Paris, the Royal Opera House in London, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Teatro Liceu in Barcelona, Teatro Real Madrid, the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, the Wiener Staatsoper, Munich Staatsoper, Deutsche Oper Berlin, the San Francisco Opera, the Los Angeles Opera, the Japan Opera Foundation in Tokyo and many more.

He has worked with Semyon Bychkov, James Conlon, Daniele Gatti, Bruno Bartoletti, Zubin Mehta, James Levine, Christian Thielemann, Chung, Michele Mariotti, Renato Palumbo, Antonio Pappano, Riccardo Chailly, Daniel Oren.