PIERO GUARNERA

Piero Guarnera

The baritone Piero Guarnera completed his musical studies with Maria Carbone and Maria Vittoria Romano. In 1984 he won the Spoleto International Competition and made his debut as Belcore in L'elisir d'amore. In the same year he appeared at the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome as Masetto in Don Giovanni under Peter Maag, and in 1995 won the Treviso Toti dal Monte Competition, appearing as Guglielmo in Cosi fan tutte. He has since then appeared in leading theatres in Italy and abroad, including the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome (Ifigenia in Tauride, Malatesta in Don Pasquale, Ford in Falstaff), the Naples Teatro di San Carlo (Il barbiere di Siviglia under Bartoletti, Tha Rape of Lucretia directed by Corbelli), the Teatro alla Scala (Idomeneo under Riccardo Muti, Arabella under Sawallisch), the Turin Teatro Regio (Il Campanello, Il barbiere di Siviglia, La Pulzella d'Orleans of Tchaikovsky), the Teatro di Ferrara (Falstaff conducted by Claudio Abbado), the Palermo Teatro Massimo (La Boheme, conducted by Renzetti), the Venice Teatro La Fenice (title-role in Falstaff under Kabaratchevsky), Zurich Opera (La Boheme), the Opera di Montecarlo (Falstaff), as well as at Spoleto (Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor, Don Pasquale), Pisa (Le nozze di Figaro, directed by Desderi, Don Pasquale), Malaga (La Cenerentola), Bordeaux and Maastricht (La Boheme). He has also appeared in concerts in collaboration with the tenor Jose Carreras.

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