Tenor
World
Oreste Cosimo in 2016 was selected by Riccardo Muti for his Italian Opera Academy in Ravenna and in the two-years period 2016/2017 he has been a member of Accademia del Teatro alla Scala, where he had the chance to study with such artists as Renato Bruson, Gregory Kunde, Luciana D’Intino, Vincenzo Scalera and where he could take part to the productions of La traviata, Nabucco and Hänsel und Gretel on La Scala main stage, working with some of the world leading conductors as Antonio Pappano and Daniel Barendoim. During his period at La Scala he had the opportunity to sing the role of Alfredo alongside Anna Netrebko for an orchestra rehearsal of La Traviata under the baton of Nello Santi.
Particularly gifted for music since he was a child, Oreste Cosimo studied piano and then he devoted himself to singing, Initially he studied baritone and then switched to the tenor register. He graduated with honors from the “A. Boito” Conservatory of Parma, and he made his debut at the age of 21 as Ismaele in Nabucco at Teatro Verdi in Busseto. He later sang several principal roles in various theaters in the province of Parma, before joining the soloists of the Accademia della Scala. 2018 he moved to Vienna to study under the guidance of Ramon Vargas.
He distinguished himself in several international singing competition: in 2019 Grand Prix awarded at “Bibigul Tulegenova” Competition in Kazakhstan and among the awarded at Internaional Singing Competition “Ferruccio Tagliavini” in Graz (Austria), in 2013 ha was a finalist at “Voci Verdiane” Competition in Busseto, in 2018 he was a winner of ASLICO Competition, which gave him the opportunity to debut the role of Fenton in Falstaff in the theatres of Opera Lombardia.
Among the leading roles that has already debuted, Rodolfo in La bohème (Festival Puccini, Opéra de Nice, Filarmonico di Verona, Trieste, Bern), Duca di Mantova in Rigoletto (Modena, Ferrara, Tel Aviv), Nemorino in L’elisir d’amore (Astana), Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni (Filarmonico di Verona), Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly and Nadir in Les Pêcheurs de perles, Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor (Aalto Theater Essen, Nice, Dusseldorf, Tel Aviv), Alfredo in La traviata (Tel Aviv, Praga).
His symphonic repertoire includes Puccini’s Messa di gloria, Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle, Mozart’s Requiem, Verdi’s Messa da Requiem, Dvorak’s Stabat Mater and Rossini’s Stabat Mater, that he has also recorded for the magazine Amadeus, alongside Sonia Ganassi and Carlo Colombara.
He has already worked with Riccardo Muti, Daniel Baremboim, Antonio Pappano, Daniele Callegari, Francesco Ivan Ciampa, Michele Spotti, Lorenzo Passerini, Christopher Franklin, C. Eschenbach.
LATEST PERFORMANCES: Lucrezia Borgia at Teatro dell’Opera di Roma; Rigoletto at Teatro Regio in Turin; Madama Butterfly and Gianni Schicchi at Lithuanian National Opera Vilnius; Fidelio (Florestano) at Deutsche Oper Berlin; La bohéme and La traviata at National Theatre Prague; Verdi’s Messa da Requiem with Montreal Symphony Orchestra; Rigoletto and Lucia di Lammermoor in Tel Aviv; Messa di gloria in Piacenza; La rondine at Teatro Regio in Turin; La bohéme at Festival Puccini; La bohéme and Lucia di Lammermoor in Nice; Les contes d’Hoffmann (Hoffmann) at Deutsche Oper Berlin.7
FORTHCOMING PROJECTS: Rigoletto in Vilnius; Carmen (role debut as Don José) at Deutsche Oper Berlin; La traviata at Terme di Caracalla with Opera di Roma; La bohéme at Los Angeles Opera; Lucia di Lammermoor in Basel.
