Adolfo Corrado

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Adolfo Corrado won the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Award 2023.

Born in 1994, he trained theatrically at the “Scuola di recitazione teatrale e cinematografico” of Augusto Zucchi in Rome. He subsequently began his musical studies at the “Tito Schipa” Conservatory of Music in Lecce, where he perfected his skills under the guidance of Gianluca Belfiori. He continued his training at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino as a young artist of the Young Artist Project under the coordination of G. 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 G. 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 W.A. Mozart.
More recently he has been engaged in theatres such as the Petruzzelli Theatre in Bari (Don Pasquale, Il barbiere di Siviglia, La Bohème), the Verona Arena (Nabucco), the Fenice Theatre in Venice (I Lombardi alla Prima Crociata, La Bohème, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9), the Teatro Regio in Turin (Turandot; La scuola dei Gelosi; Lélio), the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Theatre (Oedipus Rex; Siberia; Tosca), the Salzburg Festival (Tosca), the Palau de Les Arts Reina Sofia (Don Giovanni), the Teatro alla Scala (Andrea Chénier), the Itria Valley Festival in Martina Franca (Il Turco in Italia); the Teatro Comte Ory in Bologna; the Donizetti Festival in Bergamo (Alfredo il Grande), the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago (La Bohème), the Teatro San Carlo in Naples (Mozart’s Mass in C minor); Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse (La Cenerentola), Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège (I Capuleti e i Montecchi) under the direction of the maestros Daniel Oren, Zubin Mehta, Gianandrea Noseda, Renato Palumbo, Daniele Gatti, Jordi Bernàcer, Sebastiano Rolli, Stefano Montanari, Nikolas Nägele.