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.
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.
In the past season 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.
Most recently he took part in Tosca in Cagliari; Andrea
Chénier in Trieste and Toulon; Aida and Nabucco in Split; Pagliacci
at the Teatro del Maggio in Florence; Rigoletto in Leipzig; Tosca and Gala concert in Torre del Lago Adriana Lecouvreur in Genoa; Nabucco in Split; Cavalleria Rusticana in Cagliari;La Fanciulla del West in Pavia.
Plansinclude: Rigoletto in Modena; revivals of La Fannciulla del West in Brescia and Pavia; La Bohème in Toulon; Rigoletto and Pagliacci in Trieste; Simon Boccanegra at the Festival Verdi in Parma.
May 2021