Angelo Villari
Guest of the OperaBiography
Italian tenor Angelo Villari made his debut at the National Theatre in Prague in the role of Gustavo III (Un ballo in maschera) on 16 June 2018. His profile opera roles include Canio (I pagliacci), Turiddu (Cavalleria rusticana), Cavaradossi (Tosca) and Alfredo (La traviata).
Born in Messina, Angelo Villari graduated from Arrigo Boito Conservatoire in Parma, where he also studied at the Arturo Toscanini Foundation under the guidance of Alain Charles Billard. He won the first prize at the International Contest “Simone Alaimo, il Bel Canto” (2010) and he was finalist at the Lyric Contest Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago. At the beginning of his career he sang in Galuppi’s Il filosofo di campagna, Mozart’s L’oca del Cairo, Donizetti’s Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali, Rossini’s Mosè in Egitto, and Verdi’s Luisa Miller at the Festival Verdi in Parma, and at the Teatro Regio di Torino. His other engagements include Turridu (Cavalleria rusticana) in Lecce, Teatro Argentina in Rome, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Teatro Comunale di Bologna and Teatro di Reggia Emilia, Canio (I pagliacci) in Malta, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Attila in Rovereto, Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly) in Lübeck, Teatro di San Carlo di Napoli, in Bologna, Angers Nantes Opéra, Opéra de Rennes, Teatro Petruzzelli di Bari, Terme di Caracalla in Rome, in Parma and Astana, Manrico (Il trovatore) in Bergamo and Catania, Maurizio (Adriana Lecouvreur) for the Circuito Lirico Lombardo (Como, Pavia and Cremona) and in Palermo, Enrico (Respighi: La Campana sommersa) in Teatro Lirico di Cagliari (DVD Arthaus); Gustavo III (Un ballo in maschera) in Opera di Roma under the baton of Jesús López-Cobos and in Cagliari, Cavaradossi (Tosca) in Tours, Michele (Marco Tutino: La Ciociara) in Cagliari, and Pollione (Norma) at Opéra de Rennes. In 2014 in Martina Franca, Angelo Villari sang Altidor (Casella: La Donna Serpente) under the baton of Fabio Luisi (DVD, Bongiovanni), in 2015 he gained international critical acclaim in the title role of Mascagni’s Guglielmo Ratcliff in Wexford Festival (CD RTE Lyric) and in the role of Torbeno (Ennio Porrino: I Shardana) in Teatro Lirico di Cagliari (DVD Dynamic).
2020/21 Season