Mattia Olivieri

Early graduated from the Music Conservatory G.B. Martini in Bologna, Mattia Olivieri then specialized with baritone Maurizio Leoni, with whom he is still studying. In 2009, he was admitted to the Scuola dell’Opera Italiana of Teatro Comunale di Bologna and began collaborating with musical institutions such as Festival della Valle d’Itria in Martina Franca and Semperoper Dresden. In 2012, he also participated in the Accademia Rossiniana at Pesaro’s Rossini Opera Festival and was admitted at the Centre de Perfeccionament of the Opera Valencia where, among other activities, he performed Schaunard in La bohème (Chailly-Livermore).

In 2015 Mattia Olivieri started his relationship with La Scala, debuting as Schaunard in Zeffirelli’s production of La bohème under the baton of Gustavo Dudamel and, at the same time, as Belcore in L’elisir d’amore conducted by Fabio Luisi and staged by Asagarov. Since then, he has been a frequent guest in La Scala’s opera seasons: he returned there to sing Masetto in Don Giovanni directed by Carsen and conducted by Järvi, Schaunard under Pidò’s baton, Malatesta in the new production of Don Pasquale staged by Livermore and conducted by Chailly, Nardo in La finta giardiniera in Wake-Walker’s Glyndebourne production under Fasolis – also brought on tour to Shanghai –, Dandini in La cenerentola directed by Ponnelle/Asagaroff and conducted by Dantone, Mercutio in Roméo et Juliette, Prosdocimo in Il turco in Italia, Belcore in L’elisir d’amore, Malatesta in Don Pasquale, Figaro in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Silvio in Pagliacci, Delirio in L’Opera Seria.

Among the roles he has performed are Marcello in La bohème in Athens, San Paolo, La Fenice, Amsterdam, and Valencia; Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia in Nice, Vienna, Berlin, Paris, and Palermo; Guglielmo in Così fan tutte in Valencia, Nice, and Rome; Cherubino in the zarzuela El dúo de la Africana, also in Valencia; the title role in Don Giovanni in Palermo, Trieste, and on tour with the Teatro San Carlo di Napoli in Dubai; Giorgio Germont in La traviata at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona; Ping in Turandot at the Arena di Verona and at the Bregenz Festival, where he also performed Donizetti’s Requiem; Escamillo in Carmen in Genoa; Belcore in L’elisir d’amore, also in Cagliari and Valencia; Papageno in Die Zauberflöte with the Circuito Lirico Marchigiano; Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor in Vienna, Naples, and Padua; Parmenione in L’occasione fa il ladro on the ROF tour in Muscat; Alfonso in La Favorite in three different theatres within one year (Teatro del Maggio Fiorentino, Liceu, and Teatro Massimo in Palermo); and Ford in Falstaff, his Verdi debut, at the NNTT in Tokyo.

In recent seasons, he has made several major debuts: in the title role of Eugene Onegin at the Palau de les Arts in Valencia and at the Santa Fe Opera; and in Il prigioniero by Dallapiccola at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma; in La cambiale di matrimonio at the Rossini Opera Festival; and previously at the Metropolitan Opera in New York with Florencia en el Amazonas, as well as at the Bayerische Staatsoper as Ping and Belcore (roles also performed during the Münchener Festspiele); Belcore again and the Count in Le nozze di Figaro at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, where he later also returned for Carmen and Così fan tutte; Silvio in I pagliacci in Amsterdam and Valencia; Il trovatore in Venice; Les vêpres siciliennes in Palermo; Puccini’s Messa di Gloria conducted by Maestro Pappano at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia; Le nozze di Figaro and Pagliacci in London; Il trovatore at La Fenice in Venice; La bohème in Valencia; Don Giovanni in Berlin; Lucia di Lammermoor in Paris; Il turco in Italia in Madrid; Les Martyrs at the Theater an der Wien; I vespri siciliani at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples; and Beatrice di Tenda at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa.

In the 2026/27 season, he is engaged in Lucia di Lammermoor at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Le nozze di Figaro at the Teatro Real in Madrid, at the Bayerische Staatsoper with Don Giovanni and Il barbiere di Siviglia. He also returns to the Metropolitan Opera for Silent Night, to the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia for Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci in concert form under the baton of Daniel Harding, and to the Teatro alla Scala for I puritani. He will also make his debut at the Washington National Opera in La traviata.