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Bass-baritone

Matteo D'Apolito

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Italy

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Born in San Giovanni Rotondo (Apulia), Matteo D’Apolito graduated with honors from the Conservatory
“Umberto Giordano” in Foggia, where he had his debut on stage as Leporello in Don Giovanni in 2009
at the age of 22.
Particularly acclaimed for the buffo repertoire, he has already performed at several Italian prestigious
opera houses and festivals, such as Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro (Don Profondo in Il viaggio a Reims),
Teatro Regio di Torino (Don Bartolo, Schaunard in La bohème), Teatro Municipale Piacenza (Alidoro in
La Cenerentola, Selim in Il turco in Italia), Festival Verdi at Teatro Regio di Parma (Un giorno di regno),
Teatro San Carlo a Napoli (Beaupertuis in Il cappello di paglia di Firenze), just to name a few.
Matteo D’Apolito has also toured abroad and he has performed in important venues as Seoul Art Center
(Dulcamara in L’elisir d’amore, Don Bartolo in Il barbiere di Siviglia), Belcanto Opera Festival Rossini in
Wildbad (Tobia in Pavesi’s Ser Marcantonio), Royal Opera House of Muscat (Papageno in the English
version of Die Zauberflöte), Wexford Opera Festival (Ser Podestà in Margherita by Jacopo Foroni, a
performance for which he has been a nominee at International Opera Awards).
As a concert singer he has performed with success Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, Fauré’s Requiem, Orff’s
Carmina Burana, Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle, Schumann’s Dichterliebe.
Matteo D’Apolito has participated in several audio and video recordings, including Ser Marcantonio by
Stefano Pavesi (Naxos), Saverio Mercadante’s Messa a Grande Orchestra (Bongiovanni) and the first
performance in modern times of Umberto Giordano’s Giove a Pompei (Sky Classica HD).
LATEST PERFORMANCES: La Cenerentola (Alidoro) at Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa; Tosca and Il barbiere
di Siviglia (Bartolo) Luglio Musicale Trapanese; Il barbiere di Siviglia (Bartolo) at Teatro Rendano in
Cosenza; Rapimenti d’amore, new opera by Cristian Carrara, at Teatro Coccia in Novara; Pergolesi’s
Livietta e Tracollo at Teatro Marrucino in Chieti.
FORTHCOMING PROJECTS: Le nozze di Figaro (Figaro) in Lucca and in Pisa.

English

The Journey to Reims

Don Profondo

Cinderella

Alidoro

The Capulets and the Montagues

Lorenzo

Margherita

Ser Podesta

La bohème (reduction)

Schaunard

The Italian Straw Hat

Beaupertuis

King for a Day

Il signor Della Rocca

Giove a Pompei

Parvolo Patacca

The Barber of Seville

Don Bartolo

The Elixir of Love

Il dottore Dulcamara

The Marriage of Figaro

Figaro

Tosca

Cesare Angelotti

Don Pasquale

"Livietta and Tracollo"

Tracollo

Il Sagrestano

Sciarrone

La Bohème

"Viva la mamma"

Agata Scannagalli

Colline

Little solemn mass

Signor Bruschino

Gaudenzio

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