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.
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.
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 Treviso, debuting in Mozart's Così fan tutte and Don Giovanni . He has performed under conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Valery Gergiev, Christopher Hogwood, Georg Solti, Bernard Haitink, Riccardo Muti, [3] James Conlon, John Eliot Gardiner, Riccardo Chailly, Myung-Whun Chung, Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Seiji Ozawa. He has sung at La Scala in Milan, at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, at the Opéra National (Bastille) in Paris, at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, at the Vienna State Opera in Vienna, at the Theater an der Wien, at Los Angeles Opera in California, 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.
| 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 |
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