Tenor
World
One of the most valued tenors in the international opera scene, Stefano La Colla was born in Turin in a Sicilian family, then he studied and graduated from the Conservatory “Pietro Mascagni” in Livorno. He continued his studies with Luciana Serra and Carlo Meliciani and he took part in several masterclasses, also by Magda Olivero and by Katia Ricciarelli. He has won the First Prize at Voci Pucciniane competition in Torre del Lago.
After the first successes in Italian theatres, he started his international career in 2011, but the turning point was in 2015 with his glamorous debut at Teatro alla Scala as Calaf in Turandot (first event of La Scala for EXPO), under the baton of Riccardo Chailly. Thanks to this great success, in June 2015 he was immediatly invited back to La Scala for Cavalleria Rusticana (Turiddu).
He has sung in some of the most prestigious opera houses both in Italy, Teatro alla Scala, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Teatro San Carlo di Napoli, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Arena di Verona, Sferisterio di Macerata, Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Teatro Comunale di Bologna, and abroad, such as Wiener Staatsoper, Deutsche Oper and Staatsoper Berlin, Bayerische Staatsoper Munich, Liceu de Barcelona, De Nationale Opera Amsterdam, La Monnaie Brussels, Den Nordske Opera Oslo, Semperoper Dresden, Staatsoper Hamburg.
In December 2017 he made his US debut at Lyric Opera of Chicago, performing with great acclaim as Calaf in Turandot.
In his repertoire these leading roles should be mentioned: Radamès in Aida (Verona, San Carlo di Napoli, Macerata), Cavaradossi in Tosca (Deutsche Oper Berlin, Bayerische Staatsoper, Opera di Roma, San Carlo di Napoli, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and also with Berliner Philharmoniker under the baton of Simon Rattle), Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly (Staatsoper Berlin, La Fenice di Venezia, Wiener Staatsoper), Calaf in Turandot (Teatro alla Scala, Deutsche Oper Berlin, San Carlo di Napoli), Des Grieux in Manon Lescaut (Bayerische Staatsoper, Leipzig, St. Petersburg, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Amsterdam), Riccardo in Un ballo in maschera (Staatsoper Hamburg), Turiddu in Cavalleria rusticana (Semperoper Dresden), Canio in Pagliacci (Teatro Comunale di Bologna), Ismaele in Nabucco (La Scala), Pollione in Norma (Frankfurt), Don Alvaro in La forza del destino (Cologne), Enzo Grimaldo in La Gioconda (La Monnaie Brussels, Liceu Barcelona, La Scala Milan), Manrico in Il Trovatore (Staatsoper Berlin).
LATEST PERFORMANCES: Cavalleria Rusticana and La Giara in concert with Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in Tel Aviv; Tosca in Bonn; Carmen (role debut as Don Josè) in Wiesbaden; Aida at Oper Frankfur; Edgar at Opèra de Nice; Turandot at La Monnaie in Brussels; Madama Butterfly at Royal Opera Copenhagen; Il tabarro and Madama Butterfly in Hamburg; Turandot at Deutsche Oper Berlin; Il trovatore at Royal Opera House Covent Garden London; Tosca at Canadian Opera Company Toronto; Aida at Teatro Regio di Torino, at Teatro Filarmonico di Verona at Teatro San Carlo di Napoli, at Deutsche Oper Berlin; Tosca and Andrea Chénier at Vienna State Opera; Il trovatore at Opernhaus Zurich; La Gioconda at Chorégies d’Orange and at Teatro alla Scala di Milano; Tosca and Aida (under the baton of Chr.Thielemann) at Semperoper Dresden; La forza del destino at Bayerische Staatsoper Munich.
FORTHCOMING PROJECTS: Tosca at May Festival Wiesbaden; La Gioconda at Hungarian State Opera Budapest; Cavalleria Rusticana at Lugano Arts Centre; Madama Butterfly and “Nessun dorma!” concerts in Bonn; Tosca at La Monnaie Brussels; Manon Lescaut at Opèra de Nice.
