Baritone Roberto Frontali began his career singing the bel canto roles of Rossini, Bellini and Donizetti, later performing the repertoire of Verdi, and more recently appearing in verismo roles.

He made his debut in the United States at the New York Metropolitan Opera House in L’elisir d’amore, and in Europe at Teatro alla Scala in the early 1990s.

Career highlights include working with Claudio Abbado (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Zubin Mehta (La forza del destino, Lucia di Lammermoor, Falstaff), Myung-Whun Chung (Don Carlo, Rigoletto), Semyon Bychkov (La Bohème, Eugene Onegin, Don Carlo) and Riccardo Muti, with whom he worked for a decade at La Scala. Recent engagements include La traviata at Teatro Massimo, Palermo and Rigoletto at the New National Theatre in Tokyo.

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