Roberto Frontali
Roberto Frontali won the Spoleto Experimental Opera Theatre Competition ‘A. Belli’ in 1986, making his debut at the Teatro Nuovo in Spoleto in 1987 in the 41st Experimental Opera Season in Lucia di Lammermoor in the role of Lord Enrico Ashton. After devoting himself at the beginning of his career to exploring the bel canto roles of Rossini, Bellini and Donizetti, he turned his attention to the Verdi repertoire and, more recently, to the dramatic repertoire, tackling Puccini and Verismo.
He made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York with L'elisir d'amore and at La Scala in Milan with Beatrice di Tenda in the early 1990s. In 2021, he starred in the film produced by Genoma Film, Gianni Schicchi il film, directed by Damiano Michieletto.
Among the many important collaborations in his career, it is worth mentioning those with Claudio Abbado, with whom he performed Il Barbiere di Siviglia; with Riccardo Muti, with whom he collaborated at La Scala for a decade, performing Traviata, Falstaff and Don Pasquale; Zubin Mehta, for La forza del destino, Lucia di Lammermoor and Falstaff; Myung Whun-Chung, for Don Carlo in Dresden and Rigoletto in Venice; and Semyon Bychkov, for whom he sang in La Bohème, Evgenij Onegin and Don Carlo.
Recent and upcoming engagements include: Otello and Il nome della rosa at La Scala in Milan, Adriana Lecouvreur at Wiener Staatsoper and at Palau de les Arts in Valencia, Don Pasquale at the Hamburg State Opera, Don Giovanni at the Caracalla Festival in Rome, Tosca at La Fenice in Venice and the Teatro Regio in Turin, La forza del destino at the Zurich Opera House and La traviata at the New National Theatre Tokyo and in Venice and the return to Turin with Iris.
He has sung: Adriana Lecouvreur in Brussels, Vienna, Brussels and New York, Aida in Hamburg, New York and Venice, Andrea Chénier in Rome, Vienna and Bologna, Belisario in Bergamo and Vienna, Cavalleria rusticana in London and Rome, Alfano's Cyrano de Bergerac in New York, Ernani in Genoa, Zurich, Tokyo and Florence, Falstaff in Brussels, Los Angeles, Munich, New York, Lausanne, Milan and Frankfurt, Gianni Schicchi and Il tabarro in Hamburg, Turin, Tokyo, Bologna and Rome, Giovanna d'Arco in Rome, Guillaume Tell in Palermo and Vienna, Il trovatore in Vienna, Cagliari, Bologna, Toulouse, Palermo, Barcelona and Dresden, L'elisir d'amore in Bergamo, La fanciulla del West in San Francisco, Palermo, Cagliari and Vienna, La Gioconda in Milan, La traviata in Trieste, Palermo, Bologna, Rome, Lausanne, Vienna, Verona, Milan, Berlin, Luisa Miller in Hamburg, Turin, Barcelona, Madrid, New York, L'ultimo viaggio di Sindbad in Rome, Macbeth in Philadelphia, Macerata, Vienna and Paris, Madama Butterfly in Rome and New York, Otello in Macerata, Turin and Naples, Pagliacci in Helsinki, London and Turin, Rigoletto in Rome, Bilbao, Lyon, New York, Cagliari, Vienna and Madrid, Simon Boccanegra in Tokyo, Lausanne, Turin, Parma, Buenos Aires, Palermo, Geneva and Genoa, Tosca in Rome, Torre del Lago, Palermo, Rome, Palermo, Bilbao, Naples and Hamburg, Un ballo in maschera in Vienna, Beijing, Florence and Trieste.
