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.