Marco Berti


Tenor

Marco Berti is the Italian tenor currently most sought-after by the world’s major opera houses, where he is appreciated for the splendid quality of his voice, his timbre “all’italiana”, the force of his high register, his innate musicality, his stage presence and artistic accomplishment.

Born in Como, he received his singing diploma at the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Milan in 1989 under the guidance of Giovanna Canetti, and he then continued to perfect his vocal technique with Adelaide Saraceni, Pier Miranda Ferraro and Gianfranca Ostini. After winning the Concorso Internazionale Giacomantonio, he made his debut in 1990 as Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly in Cosenza.

Since then Marco Berti’s artistic ascent has continued and the brilliance of his career is constantly being consolidated at Italy’s main theatres as well as abroad, where he is unanimously acclaimed by the public and the critics. His interpretations underline his clear phrasing, the magnificent quality of his voice, both mellow and powerful, and by many considered among the most beautiful in Italian opera.

Marco Berti’s extraordinary vocal qualities and stage mastery have recently allowed him to count among his successes one of the most demanding and complex roles in the Verdian repertoire –Otello. The Spanish critic Alonzo Gonzales of La Razón, who heard his debut in this role at the Festival de Opera de La Coruña in September 2010, named him “The Otello of the coming years, of the future.”

Berti is in great demand as artistic directors’ preferred artist at major theatres and festivals, where he is seen as the ideal interpreter, capable of taking on an ample and multifaceted repertoire of roles that in the past were performed by such legendary names as Corelli, Del Monaco, Bergonzi, Domingo and Pavarotti.

While Radamès, Riccardo, Adorno, Manrico, Ernani and Otello are his most admired in the Verdian repertoire, it is just as important to mention his Puccinian roles, which have brought him equal acclaim and appreciation for his vocal elegance and unrestrained stage presence – Calaf, Des Grieux, Pinkerton, Cavaradossi and Edgardo.

Great successes have also included Marco Berti’s interpretations of Don José in Bizet’s Carmen and Canio in Leoncavallo’s I pagliacci.

Marco Berti has worked with many of the world’s great conductors among them Gianandrea Gavazzeni, Zubin Mehta, Lorin Maazel, Riccardo Muti, Antonio Pappano, Daniel Oren, James Conlon and Nicola Luisotti and such world-renowned stage directors as: Franco Zeffirelli, Pier Luigi Pizzi, Pier Luigi Pier’Alli and Liliana Cavani, Luc Bondy and Ferzan Ozpetek.

Spanning more than two decades, Marco Berti’s career consists of an unbroken string of successes at major opera houses around the world, from Covent Garden to the Metropolitan in New York, from the Teatro alla Scala in Milan to the Arena di Verona, from the Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona to the Opéra de Paris, and as far as the grand oriental stages of Beijing and Tokyo.

In September 2011 STYLE, the prestigious supplement of Corriere della Sera, named Marco Berti as one of the four best tenors in the world, being described by the publication as a dazzling Italian tenor who is fought over by the world’s greatest theatres.

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