Season highlights
Title role Les contes d'Hoffmann
Musikfest Bremen
Ruggero La Rondine
Minnesota Opera
Title role Candide
London Symphony Orchestra
Duca Rigoletto
Royal Swedish Opera & Calgary Opera
Title role Don Carlo
Grange Park Opera
Pollione Norma
Oper Stuttgart
Opera highlights
Title role Les contes d’Hoffmann
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; Opéra de Lyon
Rodolfo La bohème
Perm Opera Theatre; Festspielhaus Baden-Baden; Theater St Gallen
Cavaradossi Tosca
Minnesota Opera
Don José Carmen
Palm Beach Opera; Grange Festival; Teatr Wielki
Duca Rigoletto
Royal Swedish Opera; Calgary Opera
Title role Roberto Devereux
Canadian Opera Company
Tom Rakewell The Rake’s Progress
Teatro Regio di Torino
Nemorino L'elisir d'amore
Glyndebourne Festival; Staatsoper Hannover
Title role Candide
Berliner Staatsoper; Teatro dell’ Opera di Roma; London Symphony Orchestra
Alfredo La traviata
Semperoper Dresden; Grand Théâtre de Genève; Fundació del Gran Teatre del Liceu; Teatr Wielki
Opera repertoire
Bellini
Arturo La Straniera
Bernstein
Title role Candide
Bizet
Don José Carmen
Britten
Peter Quint The Turn of the Screw
Catán
Mario Ruoppolo Il postino
De falla
Paco La vida breve
Delibes
Gérald Lakmé
Donizetti
Nemorino L’elisir d’amore
Edgardo Lucia di Lammermoor
Earl of Leicester Maria Stuarda
Title role Roberto Devereux
Gounod
Romeo Roméo et Juliette
Monteverdi
Nerone Poppea e Nerone
Offenbach
Title role Tales of Hoffmann
Puccini
Cavaradossi Tosca
Rinuccio Gianni Schicchi
Rodolfo La bohème
Stravinsky
Tom Rakewell The Rake’s Progress
Verdi
Ismaele Nabucco
Alfredo La traviata
Duca Rigoletto
Macduff Macbeth
Title role Don Carlos*
Weill
Juan Der Kuhhandel
*In preparation
Athens Voice, July 2016We were lucky to have the Italian-American tenor Leonardo Capalbo, a vulnerable, passionate and heartbreaking Don José with a beautiful voice, pure timbre, and an interpretation full of intensity and emotion.
Opera News, April 2014Leonardo Capalbo’s singing was as muscular, well-honed and agile as his physique. His unusual voice had the dark, velvety timbre of a baritone even in his highest notes.
Opera NewsAmid the score’s weighty vocal demands, the flexible, brilliant tone of tenor Leonardo Capalbo’s Macduff was a breath of fresh air. Even clutching his murdered child to his chest, he delivered his heartrending Act IV aria with liquid line, conspicuously expressive among an often understated cast.