Alessandro Corbelli has previously performed with HGO as Dandini in Cinderella (1995), Leporello in Don Giovanni (1999), Dr. Dulcamara in The Elixir of Love (2009), Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte (2014), and now returns to the company to perform the role of Don Magnifico in Cinderella. His 2023-24 season included Don Magnifico in Cinderella and Sulpice in La Fille du régiment at Chicago Lyric Opera. In recent seasons, Corbelli has sung Don Magnifico in Cinderella with LA Opera and the Metropolitan Opera, Doctor Bartolo in The Barber of Seville with San Francisco Opera and Lyric Opera of Chicago, and Gianni Schicchi at the Teatro Regio di Torino and Geronio in a new production of Il turco in Italia at the Aix-en-Provence Festival. Since his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in 1997 as Dandini in Cinderella, he has returned regularly for The Italian Girl in Algiers, The Elixir of Love, Gianni Schicchi, and Cinderella. Corbelli has sung in all the major opera houses: Teatro alla Scala, Teatro Colon, London’s Royal Ballet and Opera, Paris Opera, and Vienna State Opera. He has also sung in Munich, Cologne, Geneva, Madrid, Barcelona, Toulouse, Rome, Naples, Bologna, Florence, and Turin, as well as festivals in Edinburgh, Salzburg, and the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro. Corbelli is increasingly active as a teacher and has given masterclasses for the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme at London’s Royal Ballet and Opera. He has received many awards, including the prestigious Premio Abbiati della Critica for his performance as Leporello in Don Giovanni at Teatro alla Scala and the Premio Rossini d’Oro for Don Geronio in Il turco in Italia in Pesaro.