Roberto Covatta made his debut at Teatro Regio di Torino in 1999, in Turandot staged by Zang Yimou, Oscar awarded director. Since then he has been regular guest of many leading theatres in Europe: La Scala di Milano (Turandot with Riccardo Chailly), Bayerische Staatsoper Munich (La fanciulla del West), La Monnaie de Bruxelles (Lucrezia Borgia, Trovatore, Guillaume Tell, Rigoletto, La Gioconda), Dutch National Opera Amsterdam (Simon Boccanegra, Lucia di Lammermoor, Turandot), Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (Gianni Schicchi, Orphée aux Enfers, Madama Butterfly).
His repertoire includes 18th-century opera buffa (Cimarosa’s L'impresario in angustie, La finta semplice, Mozart’s Bastien et Bastienne, Galuppi’s Il filosofo di campagna), French operetta (Offenbach), and 20th-century operas (Wolf-Ferrari’s I quatro rusteghi, Dallapiccola’s Volo di notte, Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night's Dream).
Recent highlights include Werther and Adriana Lecouvreur at Teatro San Carlo di Napoli, Lucrezia Borgia at Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège, La Gioconda at Gran Teatre del Liceu, Falstaff at Teatro Regio di Parma for Festival Verdi, Dall’Ongaro’s Robin Hood (Little John) at Royal Opera House Muscat.
(photo: Gianfranco Roselli)
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