ABBONDANZA, ROBERTO The baritone Roberto Abbondanza
was born in Rome and studied with the soprano Isabel Gentile and at the Salzburg
Mozarteum, as well as at the Cologne Musikhochschule with Hartmut Höll. He has
specialised in the performance of early music, appearing under the direction
of musicians such as Jordi Savall, Simon Preston, Sir Charles Mackerras, Rinaldo
Alessandrini and Fabio Bondi in this repertoire in the concert-hall, opera-house
and recording studio. He has added to this a wide experience of modern and contemporary
repertoire. Roberto Abbondanza has furthered his international reputation with
appearances throughout Europe, in America and in the Far East. For Naxos he
has collaborated on a number of occasions with Sergio Vartolo.
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