Andrea Silvestrelli, bass

Sparafucile in Verdi's Rigoletto

Previous Engagements at HGO:

  • Osmin in Mozart’s The Abduction from the Seraglio (2007)

Recent Engagements:

  • Ferrando in Verdi’s Il trovatore, Timur in Puccini’s Turandot, Sparafucile in Verdi’s Rigoletto, Commendatore in Mozart’s Don Giovanni and Fasolt in Wagner’s Das Rheingold with the Lyric Opera of Chicago
  • Sparafucile in Verdi’s Rigoletto at Washington National Opera
  • Hermann in Wagner’s  Tannhäuser at the Nomori Opera Festival in Tokyo
  • title role of Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle and Filippo II in Verdi’s Don Carlos with the Welsh National Opera
  • Caronte in Monteverdi’s Orfeo with the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris
  • Hagen in Wagner’s  Götterdammerung in Mexico City
  • Sarastro in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte and the High Priest in Saint-Saëns's Samson et Dalila in Tel Aviv
  • Sarastro in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte with Santa Fe Opera
  • Zaccaria in Verdi’s Nabucco in Macerata
  • Verdi’s Messa da Requiem at the Netherlands Radio Orchestra under the baton of Valery Gergiev

Previous Engagements

  • Bartolo in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro with the Lyric Opera of Chicago
  • Horatio in Thomas’s Hamlet in Trieste
  • Hunding in Wagner’s Die Walküre for Mexico City
  • Oroveso in Bellini’s Norma for Finnish National Opera and the São Carlos in Lisbon
  • Pizzetti’s Assassino nella cattedrale and Il Gatto con gli stivali with Rome Opera
  • Filippo II in Verdi’s Don Carlo in Graz
  • Banco in Verdi’s Macbeth in Amsterdam
  • The French King in Reimann’s Lear and Oroveso in Torino
  • Pistola in Verdi’s Falstaff at the Teatro Comunale Pistola, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome and at the Berlin Staatsoper
  • Commendatore at Royal Opera Covent Garden
  • Seneca in Monteverdi’s  L’incoronatione di Poppea at the Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam
  • Gofreddo in Bellini’s Il pirata at the Théâtre du Chatelet in Paris
  • Sparafucile in the Canary Islands
  • Commendatore at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna
  • Hermann in Wagner’s Tannhäuser at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples
  • Titurel in Wagner’s Parsifal at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino under Semyon Bychkov
  • Lodovico in Rossini’s Otello with the Royal Opera House Covent Garden
  • Timur in Puccini’s Turandot performed by the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in the Forbidden City in Beijing
  • Norma at the San Francisco Opera
  • Escamillo in Bizet’s Carmen in Tokyo
  • Penderecki’s The Devils of Loudoun
  • Pizzetti’s Murder in the Cathedral in Turin
  • Verdi’s Aida in Florence and Amsterdam

Awards/Accolades/Recordings:

  • Commendatore in Don Giovanni, conducted by John Eliot Gardiner for DGG
  • This production was awarded with a Grammy Award in 1995.
  • Haydn’s L’anima del filosofo for Decca, 1996

Did you know?

  • This is Mr. Silverstrelli’s HGO debut.