Andrea Porta

Andrea Porta graduates with the highest honors at Conservatorio Niccolò Paganini in Genova in 1998 with Carmen Vilalta and then with Daniela Aimale and Sherman Lowe. He’s actually studying with baritone Carlo Meliciani. He wins several International competitions, and gets a special prize at Belvedere Competition (Vienna 2001).

In 1999 he debuts as Mustafà in L’Italiana in Algeri in Trapani, choosing the brilliant repertoire thanks to a particularly strong theatrical skill. Among his most successful roles: Dulcamara, Don Magnifico, Don Bartolo, Baron Trombonok, Schaunard, Falstaff, Figaro, Malatesta.

He sings in the major Italian and European opera houses and festivals, such as Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa (Il viaggio a Reims, Così fan tutte, L’Elisir d’amore, La vedova allegra, La Bohème), Teatro Regio in Turin (Le nozze di Figaro), Teatro Comunale in Florence (Il viaggio a Reims) Teatro di San Carlo in Naples (La Vedova allegra, Turandot, Werther), Teatro Comunale in Bologna (La Cenerentola), Gran Teatro La Fenice in Venice (La Traviata), Teatro dell’Opera in Rome (L’Elisir d’amore, Cilea’s Gina), Teatro Regio in Parma (Un giorno di Regno), Teatro Bellini in Catania (L’Elisir d’Amore and La Bohème), La Monnaie in Bruxelles(Il Viaggio a Reims) Stuttgart Staatstheater (Don Giovanni), Theater an der Wien (Gianni Schicchi), Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia (La Traviata and Manon), ROF in Pesaro (La Gazzetta), Festival dei due mondi in Spoleto (The Medium, Gianni Schicchi) Macerata Opera Festival (La Bohème) and the Salzburg Festival(Otello).

He debuts the role of Falstaff in Metz, Marcello in La Bohème in Lucca, Livorno and Ravenna, Il Barbiere di Siviglia and L’occasionefa il ladro at Teatro Verdi in Trieste, Rusalka Teatro di at San Carlo in Naples, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, La Cenerentola, L’Elisir d’Amore and Le Nozze di Figaro at Semperoper Dresden, La Bohème at Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa and La Traviata at La Scala for the season 2013/2014 opening production.

He was directed by: Irina Brook, Robert Carsen, Enzo Dara, Dario Fo, Michael Hampe, Damiano Michieletto, Pierluigi Pizzi, Luca Ronconi, Dimitri Tcherniakov, Franco Zeffirelli and conducted by James Conlon, Placido Domingo, Daniele Gatti, Nicola Luisotti, Isaac Karabtchevsky, Riccardo Muti, Lorin Maazel, Donato Renzetti among the others.

Amonghis recent and future engagements: Madama Butterfly in Rome, LaBohème in Macerata, Le Nozze di Figaro in Como, again Madama Butterfly in Ascoli, Fano and Fermo and Il Trittico, La Traviata in Rome, Madama Butterfly at Caracalla, Tosca in  ,Gstaad, Così fan tutte with Circuito Lombardo, again Traviata at Opera Theatre in Rome, Butterfly and Turandot at Macerata Opera Festival, Don Pasquale at la Scala, La Traviata in tournèe with Rome Opera Theatre, Turandot in Bari.