Damiano Salerno

Born in Syracuse, baritone Damiano Salerno graduated from the State Conservatory of Pescara, and also studied at the Accademia Verdiana in Parma and Busseto. He is the winner of numerous international competitions, including the As.Li.Co. Competition in Como, Istituto Nazionale Tostiano and Royal Academy of Music in London, Catalani in Ostra, Cascina lirica in Pisa, Sanremo Classico Internazionale, and Di Stefano in Trapani.

He sings the main roles in operas by Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, Verdi and Puccini insome of the major theatres, such as: Barbiere di Siviglia at Teatro Donizetti in Bergamo, at Verdi in Padua, at Chiabrera in Savona; Ford/Falstaff and La Traviata at Teatro Petruzelli in Bari; Rigoletto, Traviata, Boheme at Teatro La Fenice in Venice; Nabucco and Ford at Teatro Nazionale in Brno; Masnadieri at Teatro Regio in Parma; Traviata, Butterfly at Carlo Felice in Genoa; Rigoletto, Trovatore, Traviata, Aida, Butterfly at Teatro Regio in Turin; Werther in St Etienne and at the Bayerische Rundfunk in Munich; Aida at Arena di Verona; Trovatore, Nabucco, Boheme at Teatro Campoamor in Oviedo; Puritani at Teatro Real in Madrid; before taking over the role of Nabucco once again in Seville, he sang Don Carlo in La Forza del Destino at Teatro Principal in Mallorca; he was also recently the lead in Franco Faccioʼs Hamlet at  Teatro Filarmonico in Verona.

He collaborates with conductors such as Armiliato, Arrivabeni, Bartoletti, Benini, Ciampa, Fagen, Fournillier, Kovatchev, Lombard, Luisotti, Marcianò, Montanaro, Oren, Pidò, Viotti and directors such as Carsen, Cobelli, Cucchi, Deflo, Gandini, Muscato, Montaldo, De Tomasi, Pizzi, Sagi, Scotto, Zeffirelli.