Tenor
World
Marco Ciaponi began his musical training with Rebecca Berg and Cinzia Forte and achieved great recognition in important international competitions: prize for zarzuela at Plácido Domingo’s Operalia Competition and second prize at the Renata Tebaldi Competition in 2017, first prizes at the Voci Verdiane International Competition in Busseto and the Flaviano Labò Competition in Piacenza in 2015.
At a very young age he made his debut on an important stage and with a leading role, as Nemorino in L’elisir d’amore opposite Leo Nucci at the Teatro Municipale di Piacenza, a role he later performed also at the Teatro Petruzzelli di Bari, in Livorno and in Rovigo.
Other roles that he has established himself with on the Italian and European stages are: Alfredo in La traviata (Deutsche Oper Berlin, Semperoper Dresden, Komische Oper Berlin, Oper Leipzig, Macerata Opera Festival, Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Tokyo), Tonio in La Fille du Régiment (Vienna State Opera, Teatro Lirico di Cagliari), Elvino in La sonnambula (Semperoper Dresden with M° Evelino Pidò, Deutsche Oper am Rhein with M° Antonino Fogliani, Opèra Grand Avignon, Ancona), Beppe Arlecchino in Pagliacci (Dutch National Opera Amsterdam in a new production staged by Robert Carsen and conducted by Lorenzo Viotti), Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni (Teatro Regio di Parma, Teatro Verdi in Trieste with M° Gianluigi Gelmetti, Oper Koeln, Teatro Perez Galdos in Las Palmas); Duca di Mantova in Rigoletto (Teatro la Fenice di Venezia, Opera Lombardia, Opéra de Toulon), Ferrando in Cosi fan tutte (Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Teatro Filarmonico di Verona, Teatro Municipale di Piacenza, Teatro Comunale di Modena, Saint-Etienne), Fenton in Falstaff (Cagliari, Piacenza, Reggio Emilia, Modena), Ernesto in Don Pasquale (Teatro Massimo di Palermo, Teatro Bolshoi Moscow, Nancy, Cagliari, Verona), Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi (Piacenza, Modena, Reggio Emilia, Ferrara). He also sang as soloist Rossini’s Stabat Mater with Stefano Montanari and the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra and with Speranza Scappucci at the Spring Festival in Tokyo. He took part in the new productions of La Fanciulla del West and Manon Lescaut at Teatro alla Scala in Milan with M° Riccardo Chailly.
LATEST PERFORMANCES: Così fan tutte at Teatro Comunale di Bologna; Don Giovanni in Las Palmas di Gran Canaria; Romeo et Juliette (Tybaly) at Teatro San Carlo di Napoli; Salieri’s Falstaff o Le Tre Burle (Mr Ford) at Teatro Filarmonico di Verona; Il cappello di paglia di Firenze (Fadinard) at Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova; Auber’s Manon Lescaut (Des Grieux) at Teatro Regio di Torino; Aladino e la lampada magica di Rota (Aladino) at Festival della Valle d’Itria in Martina Franca; La sonnambula at Teatro dell’Opera di Roma; Anna Bolena (Percy) at Teatro Verdi di Trieste.
FORTHCOMING PROJECTS: Don Giovanni at Teatro de la Maestranza in Sevilla, at Teatro Municipale in Piacenza, at Teatro Comunale in Modena and at Opéra de Dijon; Carmina Burana at Teatro Massimo di Palermo; Il barbiere di Siviglia (debut as Count Almaviva) at Teatro Verdi di Trieste; Falstaff at Teatro Filarmonico di Verona; La sonnambula at Òpera de Oviedo.
