Bass-baritone
World
Born in San Giovanni Rotondo (Apulia), Matteo D’Apolito graduated with honors from the Conservatory “Umberto Giordano” in Foggia, where he had his debut on stage as Leporello in Don Giovanni in 2009 at the age of 22.
Particularly acclaimed for the buffo repertoire, he has already performed at several Italian prestigious opera houses and festivals, such as Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (Alidoro in La Cenerentola and Don Bartolo in Il barbiere di Siviglia), Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro (Don Profondo in Il viaggio a Reims), Teatro Regio di Torino (Don Bartolo in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Schaunard in La bohème), Opera Carlo Felice in Genoa (Alidoro in La Cenerentola) at Teatro Teatro Filarmonico di Verona (Alidoro in La Cenerentola), Teatro Municipale Piacenza (Alidoro in La Cenerentola, Selim in Il turco in Italia), Teatro Coccia in Novara (Rapimenti d’amore, new opera by Cristian Carrara), at Teatro Regio di Parma (Un giorno di regno), Teatro San Carlo a Napoli (Beaupertuis in Il cappello di paglia di Firenze), just to name a few.
Matteo D’Apolito has also toured abroad and he has performed in important venues as Seoul Art Center (Dulcamara in L’elisir d’amore, Don Bartolo in Il barbiere di Siviglia), Belcanto Opera Festival “Rossini in Wildbad” (Tobia in Pavesi’s Ser Marcantonio), Royal Opera House of Muscat (Papageno in the English version of Die Zauberflöte), Wexford Opera Festival (Ser Podestà in Margherita by Jacopo Foroni, a performance for which he has been a nominee at International Opera Awards).
As a concert singer he has performed with success Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, Fauré’s Requiem, Orff’s Carmina Burana, Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle, Schumann’s Dichterliebe, oratorio San Giovanni Battista by Alessandro Stradella (Erode).
Matteo D’Apolito has participated in several audio and video recordings, including Ser Marcantonio by Stefano Pavesi (Naxos), Saverio Mercadante’s Messa a Grande Orchestra (Bongiovanni) and the first performance in modern times of Umberto Giordano’s Giove a Pompei (Sky Classica HD).
Recent highlights include La Cenerentola (Alidoro) and Il barbiere di Siviglia (Don Bartolo) at Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, La Cenerentola (Alidoro) at Teatro Filarmonico di Verona, in Cosenza and and Teatro Verdi di Trieste, La bohème (Colline) with Orchestra Haydn in Trento and in Bolzano; La Cenerentola (Dandini), Il signor Bruschino (Gaudenzio), Pergolesi’s Livietta e Tracollo in Chieti; Le nozze di Figaro (Figaro) in Lucca and in Pisa.
