Masterclass Gesang mit Pietro Spagnoli

Termine:
Di, 10. Dezember 2024, 13:00—17:00 Uhr | MUK.studio
Mi, 11. Dezember 2024, 10:00—13:00 & 15:00—18:00 Uhr | MUK.studio
Do, 12. Dezember 2024, 10:00—12:00 Uhr | Clemens Hellsberg Saal
 

BELCANTO IN UNSERER ZEIT

Der inhaltliche Schwerpunkt der Masterclass von Pietro Spagnoli, einem der international führenden Interpreten des Belcanto-Repertoires, sind Technik, Stil und Aufführungspraxis des italienischen Repertoires des 19. Jahrhunderts mit Blick auf die Bedürfnisse und Gegebenheiten des heutigen Musik- und Theaterlebens. Greta Benini wird die Teilnehmer*innen am Klavier begleiten.

Pietro Spagnoli is since long time appreciated guest of many important theatres around the world, among them the Staatsoper Vienna, the Metropolitan Opera House  in New York, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, the Liceo in Barcelona, the Festival in Aix-en-provence, the Staatsoper Hamburg, Semperoper Dresden, Oper Zuerich, owing his status as internationally renowned performer to his interpretations of leading roles mostly in the repertory of Mozart, Rossini and Donizetti, like Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia (available on DVD), Figaro and Conte Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro, the title role of Don Giovanni, Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte, Dandini and Don Magnifico in La cenerentola, Belcor and Dulcamara in L’elisir d’amore, Sulpice in La fille du regiment, Malatesta in Don Pasquale, but in the last years also added successfully not only the title role of Verdi’s Falstaff, a row of further roles outside his former classic Belcanto repertory, such as Fra Melitone/La forza del destino in Las Palmas and at the Semperoper Dresden, Sharpless/Madame Butterfly at the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari, and in 2020, a moving Michonnet in Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur, again at the Teatro Petruzzelli Bari.
In recent times, he also developed his activity as teacher and coach, establishing fruitful relationships with the Accademia della Scala in Milan, the private Sedat Gürel-Güzin Arts & Science Foundation in Istanbul and projects with the Fundaciòn Ibañez Atkinson in Santiago del Cile. He furthermore held different Masterclasses so far for the Matisse Opera Studio in Valencia, the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome and the Antonio Vivaldi Conservatory in Alessandria.
Among his numerous commitments of the last two decades we recall (Dandini) at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, Don Magnifico in Vienna and Hamburg, and Alidoro in La cenerentola at the Semperoper Dresden; L’elisir d’amore (Dulcamara) at the Met in New York, Staatsoper Vienna and Staatsoper Hamburg; La fille du regiment (Suplice) at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Oper Zurich, and Opéra Royal de Wallonie Liège; Il viaggio a Reims (Don Profondo) at the Liceo Barcelona and Teatro Municipal Santiago del Cile; Viva la Mamma (role debut Procolo) in Zurich; Così fan tutte (Don Alfonso) at the Bayerische Staatsoper Munich as well as in a new production of the Staatsoper Hamburg and at Teatro alla Scala Milan and the Abao in Bilbao; L’italiana in Algeri at the Opera Zurich; Il matrimonio segreto at La Scala Milan; Rimbaud in Le comte Ory at the Opera Montecarlo; Falstaff at the Staatsoper Hamburg.
He also has debuted all three roles (Prosdocimo, Selim, Don Geronio) in Il turco in Italia, between Aix-en-provence, Rossini Opera Festival, Zurich, Toulouse, Dresden, Bilbao, Teatro Real in Madrid, sang both roles (Don Pasquale and Malatesta) in Don Pasquale, between Theatre La Monnaie in Bruxelles, Staatsoper Vienna. He furthermore debutet Don Bartolo in Il barbiere di Siviglia at the Rossini Opera Festival in 2018 where he returned again in summer 2021 for a new production of Il signor Bruschino, and debuted too at the Donizetti Bergamo Festival with Chiara e Serafino in 2022.
He kicked off 2024 with Falstaff a the Royal Opéra Wallonie in Liège followed by a new production of La rondine (Rambaldo) at the Teatro alla Scala Milan and again Falstaff, this time at the Teatro Sao Carlos in Lisbon, then made his debut at the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago in Turandot, in both roles Ping and Mandarino contemporarily in the same performance by will of the stage director Pier Luigi Pizzi.
In season 2024-25 he performs in his first Zarzuela, Marina at the Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid, followed by La forza del destino (Fra Melitone) at the Liceo Barcelona, before debuting Gianni Schicchi at the New National Theatre in Tokyo, returning to the Scala Milan for Gassmann’s Opera seria in the role of Fallito, to the Opera Zurich for the title role in Don Pasquale, to Las Palmas for Sharpless in Madame Butterfly, and in summer 2025 to the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro for a revival of La cambiale di matrimonio.