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Simone Alberghini (born 16 April 1973) is an Italian operatic baritone, known especially for his interpretations of belcanto operas of Mozart and Rossini.




Career


Born in Bologna, Italy, Alberghini began singing pop music and jazz at a very young age. He then started studying operatic singing with tenor Oslavio di Credico at first, then with the pianist and conductor Leone Magiera and with the baritone Carlo Meliciani.
In 1993 he made his debut as Lorenzo in Bellini's I Capuleti e i Montecchi at the Teatro Regio of Turin.
In 1994 he won first prize at the international Operalia competition, organised by Plácido Domingo in Mexico City.
Since then, he has sung in the most important theatres of the world, like La Scala in Milan, the Royal Opera House in London (Dandini in Rossini's La Cenerentola and Athanael in Massenet's Thaïs with Renée Fleming), the Metropolitan Opera House in New York (Dandini), Teatro San Carlo in Naples, La Fenice in Venice, Liceu in Barcelona, Los Angeles Opera, Wiener Staatsoper, Bolshoi in Moscow and in festivals like Glyndebourne and Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro.
Alberghini sang under the baton of such conductors as Riccardo Muti, Zubin Mehta, Seiji Ozawa, Michael Tilson Thomas, Riccardo Chailly, Maurizio Benini, Teodor Currentzis, Michele Mariotti, Alberto Zedda and in productions by directors like Jonathan Miller, Luca Ronconi, Graham Vick, Francesca Zambello, Peter Hall, Pier Luigi Pizzi, Damiano Michieletto.




Repertoire






Personal life


Alberghini is married to the Russian mezzo-soprano Anna Goryachova.




Discography


Bellini, Adelson e Salvini – Barcellona/Scala/Muraro/Alberghini – conducted by D. Rustioni, Opera Rara
Bellini, I Capuleti e i Montecchi – Mei/Kasarova/Vargas/Alberghini/Chiummo – conducted by R. Abbado, EMI
Bellini, Zaira – Hernandez/Alberghini/Malavasi/Scala – conducted by G. Sagripanti, BONGIOVANNI
Giordano, Andrea Chenier – Bocelli/Urmana/Gallo/Alberghini – conducted by M. Armiliato, DECCA
Martinu, Mirandolina – Bruera/Tonsini/Marabelli/Alberghini – conducted by R. Frizza, BBC
Rossini, Trovando e Dorliska – Takova/Pertusi/Meli/Alberghini- conducted by Pablo Perez, DYNAMIC




DVD and Blu-ray


Daugherty, Jackie O – Mc Andrew/Sorouzian/Alberghini – conducted by Franklin, DYNAMIC
Donizetti, Il Furioso all’Isola di San Domingo – Alberghini/Forte/Marsiglia- conducted by G. Di Stefano, BONGIOVANNI
Donizetti, Maria Stuarda – Devia/Antonacci/Meli/Alberghini – conducted by A. Fogliani, RAI TRADE
Donizetti, Maria Stuarda – Piscitelli/Polverelli/De Biasio/Alberghini – conducted by R. Frizza, NAXOS
Rossini, Guillaume Tell – Alaimo/Rebeka/Florez/Forsythe/Alberghini – conducted by M. Mariotti, DECCA
Rossini, La Cenerentola – Garanča/Brownlee/Corbelli/Alberghini – conducted by M. Benini, DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON
Rossini, La Cenerentola – Donose/Mironov/Di Pasquale/Alberghini – conducted by V. Jurowski, OPUS ARTE
Rossini, Trovando e Dorliska – Takova/Pertusi/Meli/Praticò/Alberghini – conducted by V. Pablo Perez, DYNAMIC




References






External links


Official website
schedule, Operabase
Alberghini on iTunes
Discography for Naxos
Discography for Dynamic
Allan Kozinn, "Cenerentola, The Metropolitan Opera House, New York", The New York Times, 10 October 2005.

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• Simone Alberghini
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• La Cenerentola
• Stresa Festival Orchestra
• I Capuleti e i Montecchi
• Los Angeles Opera
• Anna Goryachova
• Maria Stuarda