Leonardo Capalbo

Highlights of the 2020/21 season include Pinkerton in Mariano Pensotti’s production of Madama Butterfly with Opéra National du Rhin and his return to La Monnaie. Future seasons see Capalbo making his house debuts with Theater an der Wien and Norwegian National Opera, and his returns to Gran Teatre del Liceu, Grange Park Opera and New National Theatre Tokyo.

Last season’s highlights included house debuts at Opera Vlaanderen as the title role in a new production of Don Carlos, and at Komische Oper as Duca Rigoletto. Capalbo was also invited to return to Gran Teatre del Liceu as Don José in Calixto Bieito’s famous production of Carmen; Teatro Real Madrid as Osaka in concert performances of Iris; and the title role Les contes d'Hoffmann with New National Theatre, Tokyo. On the concert platform, Capalbo was invited to appear in a special concert drama featuring Verdi’s Requiem in Amsterdam, as part of the national celebration of 75 years of freedom, which has been postponed to a future season.

Recent highlights include a performance of Les contes d’Hoffmann with Marc Minkowski and Les Musiciens de Louvre in Bremen,; a return to Minnesota Opera for a role debut as Ruggero in La Rondine; a debut in the title role of Don Carlo at Grange Park Opera; his Baden-Baden Festspielhaus debut as Rodolfo La bohème and Roberto Devereux; a return to Royal Swedish Opera for a new production of Rigoletto - a role he also reprised for Calgary Opera; Earl of Essex in Sir’s David McVicar’s new production of Britten’s Gloriana at Teatro Real; a new production of Carmen at Teatr Wielki; Macduff Macbeth in Lyon; Rodolfo in St Gallen; Nemorino at Staatsoper Hannover. On the concert platform, he returned to London in the title role of Bernstein’s Candide with the London Symphony Orchestra and Marin Alsop; Puccini’s Messa di Gloria in San Diego and appeared at the 2018 Marilyn Horne Song Celebration at the Zankel Hall in New York.

With a move into the lirico-spinto repertoire, he recently debuted Gustavo Un ballo in maschera at Royal Swedish Opera, Cavaradossi Tosca at Minnesota Opera, Jacopo in I Due Foscari at St Gallen Festspiele and Don Jose Carmen in Palm Beach, Sevilla, Grange Festival and Athens.

A highly versatile artist, appearances include Hoffmann Tales of Hoffman and Ismaele Nabucco at Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Lyon and Tokyo; Arturo in La Straniera at the Concertgebouw; a new production of Powder Her Face at La Monnaie and in Warsaw; Candide at Berlin Staatsoper and Teatro dell’Opera di Roma; Major Bennet Marco in The Manchurian Candidate; Tom Rakewell The Rake’s Progress at the Teatro Regio di Torino; Alfredo La Traviata at Teatro del Liceu, Welsh National Opera, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Hamburg, Warsaw and Dresden; Macduff in Chicago and Dresden; Nemorino L’elisir d’amore at Glyndebourne Festival, Staatsoper Berlin and Minnesota Opera; the title role of Donizetti’s Roberto Devereux in new productions at Canadian Opera Company and at Welsh National Opera; and the Spanish premiere of Daniel Catan’s Il Postino at Teatro Real in Madrid.

A trainee of the Juilliard School of Music, The Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, and L’Académie Musicale de Villecroze, Capalbo worked under the guidance of the legendary Marilyn Horne. He made his operatic debut in 2004 as Paco in de Falla’s La Vida Breve for Opera North. Further engagements with the company included Ismaele Nabucco - later released on Chandos; Roméo Roméo et Juliette; Narraboth Salome; and Juan in Weill’s Der Kuhhandel.

 

2020/21 season / 667 words. Not to be altered without permission