Vincenzo Costanzo
tenor
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The tenor Vincenzo Costanzo joined the children’s chorus at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples when he was six, and sang his first solo when he was eleven. He started singing with Marcello Ferraresi and then Marco Berti, while studying and graduating in informatics. He won the 2014 Oscar Della Lirica (New Generation Tenor Award) in Doha, Qatar. This young singer has appeared at theatres including the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Guangzhou Opera House in China (Alfredo in La Traviata), the Gran Teatro del Liceu in Barcelona, Teatro Carlo Felice in Genua, the Arena di Verona and La Scala Milan. He sang his first Rodolfos in Verdi’s Luisa Miller at the Teatro Real in Madrid, a role he then sang in Busseto, Ravenna, Piacenza and Ferrara. He recently made his debuts at the Nationaloper in Amsterdam as Macduff (Macbeth) and in Montpellier as Gabriele Adorno (Simon Boccanegra). He sang Rodolfo in La Bohème at the Staatsoper Berlin and Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Rinuccio (Gianni Schicchi) at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna, Ismaele (Nabucco) and Maurizio (Adriana Lecouvreur) at the Staatstheater in Mainz. Plans include Cavaradossi in Udine and Pinkerton at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice and Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago, where he has also sung Cavaradossi. Now he's appearing at Oper Frankfurt for the first time, as Pinkerton, a role he sang at Hessen’s Staatstheater in Wiesbaden’s 2019 May Festival, the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Teatro San Carlo in Naples, the Hamburg State Opera and in San Francisco, in this new production of Madama Butterfly.