Carmine Monaco d'Ambrosìa

After working initially as an actor, Carmine Monaco made his operatic debut as a bassbaritone in the role of Robinson in Cimarosa’s Il matrimonio segreto at the Teatro Lirico in Cagliari. Since then he has performed prominent parts in many comic operas, ranging from Traetta’s Il cavaliere errante, Pergolesi’s La serva padrona and Livietta and Tracollo, Haydn’s Il mondo della luna, Mozart’s Don Giovanni (Leporello) and Le nozze di Figaro (Bartolo) to works by Rossini (Bartolo in Il barbiere di Siviglia and Gaudenzio in Il signor Bruschino), Donizetti (Don Pasquale, L’elisir d’amore, Il campanello), Ricci (Crispino e la comare) and Puccini (the title role in Gianni Schicchi). He has also been involved in the first modern revivals of two works typical of the great Neapolitan school, performi