The
baritone Devid Cecconi, born in Florence, after completed his studies,
won the first prize of the “Mattia Battistini”
International Singing Competition (2006).
He has a wide repertoire which includes role as: Falstaff, Renato in Un Ballo in Maschera, Macbeth, Gerard in Andrea Chenier, Rodrigo in Don Carlo, Nabucco, Rigoletto and many others.
In the past season Mr. Cecconi starred as
Rigoletto at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste, Daniel Oren conducting, then
on tour in Italy; Il Tabarro at the Teatro Luciano Pavarotti in Modena and in Piacenza and Ferrara; La Forza del Destino, Rigoletto, Nabucco at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa; Pagliacci and Aida at the Terme di Caracalla in Rome; Rigoletto and Madama Butterfly in Salerno; Tabarro and Gianni Schicchi in Ravenna, Modena and on tour in Tuscany; Madama Butterfly at the National Center of Performing Arts in Mumbay; Giovanna d’Arco at the Teatro Regio in Parma Bruno Bartoletti conducting, then he went on tour as Rigoletto in China again with the Teatro Regio of Parma.
Most recently he performed: Rigoletto at
the Festival in St.Margarethen, in Leipzig, Trieste, Bologna, at the
Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago, Seoul, Liège; Nabucco in Masada, Palermo and Leipzig; Roberto Devereux at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome and at the Bunka Kaikan in Tokyo on tour with the Bayerische Staatsoper Berlin; La Bohème at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence and at the Opéra in Toulon; Gianni Schicchi in Lecce; Pagliacci at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona; Attila (Ezio) in Trieste; Madama Butterfly at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo and in Lecce; La Traviata in Hannover; Un Ballo in Maschera in Seoul, Cagliari and Kiel; Falstaff in Wiesbaden; La Bohème and Aida in Gozo; Giovanna d’Arco (Giacomo) for the season opening night at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan (Riccardo Chailly conducting); Lucia di Lammermoor (Enrico Ashton) in Trieste; Puccini's triptych (Michele and Gianni) in Ferrara; Cavalleria Rusticana and Tutino's Ciociara (Giovanni), in the world première of the opera, at the Teatro Lirico in Cagliari; Tosca (Scarpia) on tour in Italy (Brescia, Cremona, Como, Bergamo and Pavia) and at the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome; Cavalleria Rusticana at the Teatro del Maggio in Florence; Un Ballo in Maschera in Darmstadt.
Plans include: Tosca in Cagliari; Andrea Chénier in Trieste and Toulon; Rigoletto in Leipzig, Florence, Ferrara and Lucca; Pagliacci and Rigoletto at the Teatro del Maggio in Florence.
February 2019