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Adolfo Corrado

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Adolfo Corrado has been named BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2023. Born in 1994, he trained theatrically at Augusto Zucchi’s School of Theatre and Film Acting in Rome. He then began his musical studies at the Tito Schipa Conservatory of Music in Lecce, where he specialized under the guidance of Gianluca Belfiori. He continued his training at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino as a Young Artist Project under the coordination of Gianni Tangucci.

He won the XLIX Edition of the International Competition Toti dal Monte 2021, winning the role of Don Pasquale in the opera of the same name by Gaetano Donizetti. He won the LXXIII Edition of the International Competition As.Li.Co. 2022, winning the role of Leporello in the opera Don Giovanni by Mozart.

His most recent engagements have seen him perform in theatres such as: Teatro Petruzzelli (Don Pasquale, Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Arena di Verona (Nabucco), Teatro la Fenice di Venezia (I Lombardi alla Prima Crociata), Teatro Regio di Torino (Turandot; La Scuola de'Gelosi; Lélio), Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (Oedipus Rex; Siberia; Tosca), Salzburger Festspiele (Tosca), Palau de Les Arts Reina Sofia (Don Giovanni), Teatro alla Scala in Milan (Andrea Chénier), Festival della Valle d'Itria in Martina Franca (Il Turco in Italia), Teatro Comunale in Bologna (Le Comte Ory), Festival Donizetti in Bergamo (Alfredo il Grande), under the direction of the maestros Daniel Oren, Zubin Mehta, Gianandrea Noseda, Renato Palumbo, Daniele Gatti, Jordi Bernàcer, Sebastiano Rolli, Stefano Montanari and Nikolas Nägele.

Some of his upcoming works will see him perform in theatres such as: Fondazione Petruzzelli di Bari and Teatro La Fenice di Venezia (La Bohème), Teatro San Carlo in Naples (Mozart's Mass in C minor), Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse (La Cenerentola and Norma), Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège (I Capuleti e Montecchi), Teatro la Fenice di Venezia and Festival MiToin Turin (Beethoven's Ninth Symphony), Palau de les Arts de Valencia (Il Trovatore), Teatro Massimo in Palermo (Turandot), Contergebouw in Amsterdam (Loreley).