Ildebrando D'Arcangelo
Appearance
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Ildebrando D'Arcangelo (born 14 December 1969) is an Italian opera singer. He has been called a bass-baritone,[1] though he prefers the term basso cantabile.
Career
A native of Pescara, Abruzzo, D'Arcangelo began his studies in 1985 at the conservatory of Luisa D'Annunzio in Pescara, under Maria Vittoria Romano, honing his skills under Paride Venturi in Bologna.[2]
From 1989 to 1991 he sang at the Concorso Internazionale Toti Dal Monte at
Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, and at the Salzburg Festival
.
D'Arcangelo released solo albums of Handel arias in September 2009 and Mozart arias in April 2011 from Deutsche Grammophon.
D'Arcangelo was named an Austrian Kammersänger in December 2014.
Repertoire
Role | Opera | Composer |
---|---|---|
Mefistofele | Mefistofele | Boito |
Lorenzo | I Capuleti e i Montecchi | Bellini |
Count Rodolfo | La sonnambula | Bellini |
Giorgio | I puritani | Bellini |
Méphistophélès | La damnation de Faust | Berlioz |
Escamillo | Carmen | Bizet |
Riccardo III | Riccardo III | Canepa |
Enrico VIII | Anna Bolena | Donizetti |
Dulcamara | L'elisir d'amore | Donizetti |
Don Alfonso | Lucrezia Borgia | Donizetti |
Callistene | Poliuto | Donizetti |
Méphistophélès | Faust | Gounod |
Creonte | L'anima del filosofo ossia Orfeo ed Euridice | Haydn
|
Bartolo Il Conte d'Almaviva Figaro |
Le nozze di Figaro |
Mozart |
Don Giovanni Leporello Masetto |
Don Giovanni | Mozart |
Guglielmo Don Alfonso |
Così fan tutte | Mozart |
Colline | La bohème | Puccini |
Cesare Angelotti | Tosca | Puccini |
Orbazzano | Tancredi | Rossini |
Haly Mustafà |
L'italiana in Algeri | Rossini |
Selim | Il turco in Italia | Rossini |
Don Basilio | Il barbiere di Siviglia | Rossini |
Elmiro | Otello | Rossini |
Alidoro | La Cenerentola | Rossini |
Idraote | Armida | Rossini |
Mosè | Mosè in Egitto | Rossini |
Capellio | Bianca e Falliero | Rossini |
Assur Oroe |
Semiramide | Rossini |
Walter Furst | Guillaume Tell | Rossini |
Lorenzo | La secchia rapita | Salieri |
Pirro | I Lombardi alla prima crociata | Verdi |
Don Ruy Gomez de Silva | Ernani | Verdi |
Attila | Attila | Verdi |
Banco | Macbeth | Verdi |
Monterone | Rigoletto | Verdi |
Ferrando | Il trovatore | Verdi |
Jacopo Fiesco | Simon Boccanegra | Verdi |
Filippo II Un monaco |
Don Carlo |
Verdi |
Lodovico | Otello | Verdi |
Bajazet | Bajazet |
Vivaldi |
Anzoleto | Il campiello | Wolf-Ferrari |
Recordings
Audio
- Messa da Requiem, released 19 November 2013, C Major, DVD & Blu-ray: 814337011482, Gustavo Dudamelconductor.
- Bellini: La sonnambula, released 24 February 2009, L'Oiseau-Lyre 001238302, conductor Alessandro De Marchi.
- Bellini: I puritani, released 11 October 2010, Decca DVD 00044007433515, conductor Michele Mariotti
- Bizet: Carmen released 28 October 2008, Decca 001216709, conductor Antonio Pappano.
- Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore, released 16 January 2007, Virgin Classics 63352, conductor Alfred Eschwé .
- Donizetti: aria Egli è spento, from Belisario, in Bel Canto Portrait/Nelly Miricioiu,[4] released 14 August 2001, Opera Rara 217, conductor David Parry.
- Donizetti: aria Addio, in Il Sibilo, released 2 December 2002, Opera Rara 219, piano David Harper.[5]
- Donizetti: aria Addio brunetta, son già lontano, in Il Sibilo, released 2 December 2002, Opera Rara 219, piano David Harper.[5]
- Donizetti: aria Malvina, la bella, in Il Sibilo, released 2 December 2002, Opera Rara 219, piano David Harper.[5]
- Handel: Arie italiane per basso, released 1 September 2009, Deutsche Grammophon 000289 477 8361 9, conductor Federico Maria Sardelli.
- Haydn: L'anima del filosofo ossia Orfeo ed Euridice, released 2 November 1997, L'oiseau-Lyre 452668, conductor Christopher Hogwood.
- Mercadante: aria La preghiera, in Il Sibilo, released 2 December 2002, Opera Rara 219, piano David Harper.[5]
- Mozart: Mozart arias – d'Arcangelo, Orchestra del Teatro Regio, released 29 April 2011, Deutsche Grammophon 000289 477 9297 0, conductor Gianandrea Noseda.
- Mozart: Don Giovanni,[clarification needed] released 18 July 1995, Archiv Produktion (Deutsche Grammophon) 445870, conductor sir John Eliot Gardiner.[6]
- Mozart: Don Giovanni,[clarification needed] released 11 August 1998, Deutsche Grammophon 457601, conductor Claudio Abbado.
- Mozart: Don Giovanni,[clarification needed] released 13 February 2007, Deutsche Grammophon 000817509 and Decca DVD 000838309, conductor Daniel Harding.
- Mozart: Don Giovanni,[clarification needed] released 20 November 2007, TDK 2103003, conductor Riccardo Muti.
- Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro,[clarification needed] released 13 February 2007, Deutsche Grammophon 000987602 and 000987502, DVD 000817509 and 000879909, conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt.[7]
- Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro,[clarification needed] released 3 July 1995, Deutsche Grammophon 445903, conductor Claudio Abbado.
- Pacini: aria Come nube che leggera, in Il Sibilo, released 2 December 2002, Opera Rara 219, piano David Harper.[5]
- Pacini: aria Ecco alfin, in Il Sibilo, released 2 December 2002, Opera Rara 219, piano David Harper.[5]
- Pacini: aria Il paggio, in Il Sibilo, released 2 December 2002, Opera Rara 219, piano David Harper.[5]
- Puccini: La bohème released 14 September 1999, Decca 466070 and 470624, conductor Riccardo Chailly.
- Puccini: aria "O Mimì, tu più non torni", conductor Riccardo Chailly in La Bohème – The Dream Cast, released 12 November 2002, Decca 472619.
- Puccini: Tosca, released 6 May 2003, Decca 000017112, conductor Zubin Mehta.
- Rossini: Armida, released 4 October 1994, Sony 58968, conductor Daniele Gatti.[8]
- Rossini: Bianca e Falliero, released 11 December 2001, Opera Rara 20, conductor David Parry.[5]
- Rossini: aria Cielo, il mio labbro inspira from Bianca e Falliero, conductor David Parry in Sogno talor, released 9 September 2003, Opera Rara 225.
- Rossini: Otello, released 8 February 2000, Opera Rara 18, conductor David Parry.[5][9]
- Rossini: aria "Che smania! ahimè! che affanno... L'error d'un infelice" from Otello, conductor David Parry, in Tyrants and Lovers, released 13 August 2002, Opera Rara 221.
- Rossini: Semiramide, released 25 July 2006, Nightingale Classics 207013, conductor Marcello Panni .
- Rossini: Stabat Mater, released 1 November 2010, EMI Classics 5099964052922, conductor Antonio Pappano.
- Verdi: I Lombardi alla prima crociata, released 16 September 1997, Decca 455287, conductor James Levine.[10]
- Verdi: Messa da Requiem, released 27 March 2001, Philips 468079 and DVD 000157119, conductor Valery Gergiev.
- Verdi: Messa da Requiem, released 30 August 2005, RCA Victor red seal 61244, conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
- Verdi: Otello, released 11 October 1994, Deutsche Grammophon 439805, conductor Myung-Whun Chung.
- Verdi: aria "Niun mi tema" from Otello, conductor Myung-Whun Chung in Bravo Domingo!, released 15 September 1998, Deutsche Grammophon 000719102 (re-released as Truly Domingo, 10 October 2006, same catalogue number).
- Verdi: Rigoletto, released 20 October 1998, Deutsche Grammophon 447064, conductor James Levine.[11][12]
- Giuseppe Verdi: Il trovatore, released 17 September 2002, EMI Classics 57360, conductor Antonio Pappano.[13]
- Vivaldi: Bajazet,[14] released 10 May 2005, Virgin Classics 45676 45676, conductor Fabio Biondi.
- Vivaldi: aria "Nasce rosa lusinghiera" from Bajazet, conductor Fabio Biondi in Best 100 Vivaldi, released 12 February 2008, EMI Classics 10358.
Video
- Tancredi (Schwetzingen Festival)
- L'elisir d'amore (Wiener Staatsoper)
- Don Giovanni[clarification needed] (Theater an der Wien)
- Don Giovanni[Salzburger Festspiele)
- Le nozze di Figaro[Salzburger Festspiele)
- Carmen (Royal Opera House)
- I Puritani (Teatro Comunale di Bologna)
- Anna Bolena (Wiener Staatsoper)
- Verdi Requiem (Los Angeles Philharmonic)
- L’elisir d’amore (Baden-Baden Festspielhaus)
- Don Giovanni[clarification needed] (Macerata Opera Festival)
- Don Giovanni[clarification needed] (Salzburg Festival)
References
- ^ Ng, David (1 October 2011). "Ildebrando D'Arcangelo wants to be more than a pretty face". Los Angeles Times.
- ^ "Ildebrando D'Arcangelo". Classical Artist Biographies. All Media Guide, 2008. Answers.com, 30 January 2009.
- ^ "Muti mette l'accento su Verdi", Gazzetta di Parma, 10 October 2007, p. 34. Retrieved 30 January 2009. Archived 25 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ The Opera Quarterly, 18.1 (2002) 139–142
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Biography of the artist on the website of the "Opera Rara" label Archived 19 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ The Opera Quarterly 1997 13(3): 168–175.
- ^ Peter Branscombe. "Operas familiar and unfamiliar". Early Music 2008 36(3): 494–498.
- ^ The Opera Quarterly 1994 10(4):159–163
- ^ The Opera Quarterly 2001 17(1): 136–141.
- ^ George Jellinek in The Opera Quarterly 2001 17(1): 144–145.
- ^ Bruce Burroughs in The Opera Quarterly 2001 17(2): 311–320.
- ^ Gramophone 11/98, pp. 115–18.
- ^ The Opera Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 3, Summer 2002, pp. 438–441.
- ^ The Opera Quarterly 21.3 (2005) 563–566.
External links
Media related to Ildebrando D'Arcangelo at Wikimedia Commons