Ildebrando D'Arcangelo

Ildebrando D'Arcangelo (born 1969, Pescara, Italy) is an Italian bass/baritone opera singer.

D'Arcangelo began his studies in 1985 at the conservatory of Luisa D'Annuncio in Pescara, under Maria Vittoria Romano. Following this he studied under Paride Venturi in Bologna.

From 1989 to 1991 he sang at the Concorso Internazionale Toti Dal Monte at Treviso, debuting in Mozart's "Cosi fan tutte" and "Don Giovanni". He has performed under conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Valery Gergiev, Christopher Hogwood, Georg Solti, Bernard Haitink, Riccardo Muti, John Eliot Gardiner, Riccardo Chailly, Myung-Whun Chung, Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Seiji Ozawa. He has sung at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, at the Opéra National (Bastille) in Paris, at the Lyric Opera in Chicago, at the Staatsoper in Vienna, at the Theater an der Wien and at the Salzburger Festspielen.

Repertoire

His repertory features, above all, classical opera, including:
* Masetto, Leporello, and Don Giovanni ("Don Giovanni")
* Figaro and Count Almaviva ("Le nozze di Figaro")
* Colline ("La Bohème")
* Alidoro ("La Cenerentola")
* Guglielmo and Don Alfonso ("Così fan tutte")
* Bartolo ("Il barbiere di Siviglia")
* Dulcamara ("L'elisir d'amore")
* Count Rodolfo ("La sonnambula")

Discography

* Antonio Vivaldi: "Bajazet"
* Mozart: "Don Giovanni" (D'Arcangelo sings Leporello)

DVD

* "L'elisir d'amore (Wiener Staatsoper)
* "Don Giovanni" (Theater an der Wien)
* "Don Giovanni" (Salzburger Festspiele)
* "Le nozze di Figaro" (Salzburger Festspiele)