Roberto Abbondanza

Last update: before 2019
Bariton, performer of doctor Wilhelm Reischmann. Born in Rome, student of Isabel Gentile, has improved at Mozarteum of Slatzburg and at the Music school of Koln with Hartmut Holl. He has sung in Italy (Florence, Rome; Milan, Venice, Palermo, with the orchestra of the Rai, the Verdi and the Orchestra Toscanini) and abroad (London, Vienna; Saltzburg, Bruxelles, Paris, Lions, Nice, Monte-Carlo, Barcellona, Bilbao, Lisbona, New York, Washington, Mexico City, Hong Kong) working together with conductors such as Chung, Mehta, Bartoletti, Tabachnik, Angius, Bacalov, Gorli, Koenigs, Lanzillotta, Lü Jia, Morricone, Panni, Solltesz, Spivakov, e, nel repertorio barocco, Biondi, Alessandrini, Curtis, De Marchi, Garrido, Mackerras, Marcon, Preston, Savall, Zedda. His opera repertory consist of the main masterpieces of Mozart (Conte, Bartolo, Leporello, Don Alfonso), belcantistici and rossiniani ((Taddeo, Bartolo, Dulcamara, Don Pasquale), verdiani e pucciniani (Miller, Fra Melitone, Fastaff Schaunard, Sharpless, Gianni Schicchi, Sagrestano). In Baroque range he worked on pieces of Monteverdi, Cavalli, Händel, Scarlatti, Vivaldi, Leo, Jommelli. He has a particolar interest in the contemportary reperoty, he sung pieces of Barber, Bernstein, Sinopoli (Lou Salomé), Adams, Bacalov, Britten (War Requiem), Boccadoro, Bussotti, Dallapiccola (Il prigioniero e Volo di notte, Premio Abbiati 2004), Donatoni, Henze (Elegy for Young Lovers, Premio Abbiati 2005), Ligeti, Maderna, Malipiero, Nono, Pärt, Petrassi, Schoenberg, Stravinskij. Ha inoltre interpretato numerose prime assolute, tra cui lavori di Ambrosini (Il killer di parole, Premio Abbiati 2010), Bacalov, D’Amico, Del Corno, Fedele (Antigone, Premio Abbiati 2007), Francesconi, Glass, Morricone, Mosca (Signor Goldoni), Panni, Scogna, Vacchi (Il letto della storia, Premio Abbiati 2003).