During the past two seasons, Italian tenor Matteo Macchioni has performed Ferrando in “Così fan tutte” at the Royal Danish Opera House Copenhagen, Don Ottavio in “Don Giovanni” at the Theater Freiburg, Ramiro in “La Cenerentola” at the Welsh National Opera in Cardiff, Conte Alberto in “L’occasione fa il ladro” and as Le Pêcheur in Rossini’s “Guillaume Tell” at the Tyrolean Festival in Erl, as well as Ernesto in “Don Pasquale” at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genova.
Future plans include his re-invitation to the Welsh National Opera, this time as Conte Almaviva in “Il barbiere di Siviglia” and also the revival of “Così fan tutte” in Copenhagen.
Other important roles and engagements of the years before were Ramiro in “La Cenerentola” at the Leipzig and at the Florence Opera; Almaviva in “Il Barbiere di Siviglia” at the Semperoper Dresden, the Royal Danish Opera House in Copenhagen, the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genova, the Teatro Verdi in Padova and the Teatro Bicentenario in León (Mexico), Monsieur le Bross in Donizetti’s “Olivo e Pasquale” in Bergamo and Isacco in “La Gazza Ladra” at the Teatro alla Scala di Milano under Riccardo Chailly. At the Bregenz Festival he appeared on stage as Aronne in “Mosè in Egitto”, at the Rossini Festival in Pesaro he has been a regular guest since his participation in the Rossini Academy under Alberto Zedda, among others as Ali in “Adina” in “La Gazza Ladra” and in “Il Viaggio a Reims”.
The young tenor was able to expand his repertoire at an early age: he was in Salerno as Nemorino in “L’elisir d’amore” under Daniel Oren, as Ernesto in Donizetti’s “Don Pasquale” at the Trapani July Festival, as Don Ottavio in “Don Giovanni” in Vicenza, as Don Basilio in “Le Nozze di Figaro” at the Carlo Felice in Genova and in Como, Brescia, Cremona and Pavia, as Red Whiskers, and Squeak in Britten’s “Billy Budd”, as Goro in Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” in Genova or as or Abate di Chazeuil (“Adriana Lecouvreur”) in Como, Pavia, Cremona and Sassari.
In 2008 Matteo Macchioni was the youngest tenor ever to reach the final of the Pavarotti competition. There Carlo Bergonzi heard him and supported him on his further way. In 2012 he was a finalist in the International Toti dal Monte Singing Competition.
After his success in the Italian casting show “Amici” and several other TV appearances, he was soon offered various TV shows, also in 2012, a show called “Mozart a modo mio”, followed by “Wagner a modo mio”, which gained great popularity.
Born in Sassuolo (Modena), Matteo Macchioni received his first music lessons at a very early age. After completing his piano studies, he devoted himself entirely to singing.
