Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano

Born in Messina, he began his musical studies in his hometown at the Arcangelo Corelli Conservatory under the guidance of Maestro Bevacqua. After winning first prize at the International Giuseppe Di Stefano Competition in Trapani, in 1996 he debuted the roles of Don Ottavio at the Politeama in Lecce and Nemorino in Pistoia.

Since then, he has embarked on an international career that has taken him to some of the world's major stages, including: Teatro alla Scala, Metropolitan in New York, Wiener Staatsoper, Opera National de Paris, Staatsoper and Deutsche Oper in Berlin, Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, Teatro Real in Madrid, Liceu in Barcelona, New National Theatre in Tokyo, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, collaborating with important conductors including: Valerij Gergeev, Riccardo Muti, Daniel Oren, Daniele Gatti, Alberto Zedda, Renato Palumbo, Roberto Abbado, Bruno Campanella, Donato Renzetti, Yves Abel and Michele Mariotti.

photo Amati Bacciardi

A refined Rossinian singer, Antonino Siragusa is the ideal interpreter of Conte d'Almaviva (Il Barbiere di Siviglia) and has quickly made it his role of choice, presenting it in some of the great theatres such as Wiener Staatsoper, Staatsoper and Deutsche Oper in Berlin, Opera National de Paris, Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, Hamburgische Staatsoper, De Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam, New National Theatre in Tokyo, NCPA in Beijing, Opera Company of Philadelphia, Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Teatro Lirico in Cagliari, Teatro Regio in Turin, Teatro Filarmonico in Verona, Teatro Comunale in Bologna and Teatro Massimo in Palermo.

A regular guest at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, he has taken part in numerous productions, including Otello, Il viaggio a Reims, La scala di seta, La gazzetta, L'equivoco stravagante, Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra, Ermione, Tancredi e Armida and in 2015 Ciro in Babilonia, in which he played Baldassare to great public and critical acclaim. More recently, he has taken part in productions of Otello and Semiramide.

In recent years, he has successfully performed several Verdi titles such as Rigoletto at the Liceu de Barcelona, Falstaff at the Carlo Felice in Genoa, at the Opera de Nice and at the Teatro La Scala in Milan, Un giorno di regno at the ABAO Bilbao and La Traviata at the Teatro della Fortuna in Fano.

Important productions in which he took part include: Armida at the Metropolitan in New York, Semiramide and L'Elisir d'amore at the Teatro Real in Madrid, Guillaume Tell (Arnold) and La Cenerentola at the Zurich Opernhaus, Zelmira at the Opera de Lyon, La Sonnambula, Gianni Schicchi, La Cenerentola, Il Barbiere di Siviglia and L'Elisir d'amore at the Wiener Staatsoper, Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra and I Puritani at the Monnaie in Brussels, Semiramide and La Donna del Lago at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, Il Barbiere di Siviglia and I Puritani at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, L'italiana in Algeri at the Staatsoper in Berlin, Petite Messe Solennelle at the Theatre des Champs-Elysees de Paris and with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Don Giovanni conducted by Riccardo Muti at the Teatro alla Scala, Oedipus Rex at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome.

Recent engagements include: La Sonnambula at the Teatro Regio in Turin, NCPA in Peking, Lausanne, Muscat, Tokyo and Cagliari; Il Barbiere di Siviglia in Hamburg, Bologna, Japan, Trieste, Venice, Turin and Muscat; L'Italiana in Algeri in Venice, Theatre des Champs-Elysees in Paris, Trieste and Milan; Le Comte Ory at the Opera Royal de Wallonie in Liege; I Puritani in Trieste and Barcelona; L'Elisir d'amore in Pamplona; Don Pasquale at the Wiener Staatsoper and Trieste; La Cenerentola again in Vienna, Bologna, Modena and Genoa; Anna Bolena (Percy) at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona and Genoa; Ermione (Oreste) at the San Carlo in Naples; Lucrezia Borgia in Tenerife; Petite Messe Solennelle in Trieste and Cagliari; Il Turco in Italia and Le zite 'ngalera at La Scala in Milan; Medea in Corinto at the Festival Donizettiano in Bergamo; Stabat Mater and Le Comte Ory in Bologna; Don Pasquale in Turin; Alfredo il Grande in Bergamo; L'Italiana in Algeri and La Favorita in Cagliari; La Fille du regiment in Muscat; and Carmina Burana in Sassari.

Among the engagements for the 2025-26 season are: Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in Pordenone and Trieste; La Bohème and Il Barbiere di Siviglia in Bologna; Semiramide in Palermo; and L'Italiana in Algeri in Piacenza.