Pietro Spagnoli

When he was 8 years old, he became part of the ‘Cappella Musicale Pontificia’ (Cappella Sistina).
He sang in the Cappella as an alto until he was 13 years old.
In 1987 he won the G.B Pergolesi Rome National Competition.
He had his stage debut soon after that, in V. Bellini’s opera ‘Il Pirata’ at the Festival della Valle d’Itria.
In that same year, he sang in the Teatro Comunale di Firenze, performing the role of Tracollo in G.B. Pergolesi’s work “Livietta e Tracollo’.

As the result of a gradual artistic evolution, Mr. Spagnoli is a sought-after interpreter in operas
by W. A. Mozart, G. Rossini and G. Donizetti. His roles include Don Giovanni and Leporello in "Don Giovanni"; Figaro in "Il barbiere di Siviglia"; Figaro and Conte d'Almaviva in "Le nozze di Figaro"; Dandini in "La Cenerentola"; Don Alfonso and Guglielmo in "Così fan tutte"; Belcore and Doctor Dulcamara in "L'elisir d'amore"; Malatesta in "Don Pasquale".

Mr. Spagnoli has also appeared in: "Orfeo" by Monteverdi; "Messa in B minor" by Bach; "La serva padrona" by Pergolesi; "Die Schoepfung" (Raphael) by Haydn; "Il matrimonio segreto" (Conte) di Cimarosa; "La pietra del paragone" by Rossini ( Conte Asdrubale and Macrobio); "Il barbiere di Siviglia" (Figaro) by Paisiello; and "Die Winterreise" by Schubert.

He has also performed both Marcello and Schaunard in "La Bohème", including the production that marked the hundredth anniversary of Boheme in the Treatro Regio in Torino in 1996 with Mirella Freni and Luciano Pavarotti.
Others roles include Lescaut in "Manon Lescaut" by Puccini; Silvio in "I Pagliacci" (Silvio) by Leoncavallo; and he has also appeared in "La Vita Nova" by Wolf-Ferrari; in"Capriccio" (Conte) by Richard Strauss; and in "Pulcinella" by Stravinski.

Mr Spagnoli’s well known singing and acting gifts garnered him notice and his natural talent matured as he worked with conductors like Rinaldo Alessandrini, Maurizio Benini, Richard Bonynge, Bruno Campanella, Riccardo Chailly, M.W.Chung, Daniele Gatti, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Renè Jacobs, Julia Jones, Philippe Jordan, Alain Lombard, Jesus Lopez-Cobos, Fabio Luisi, Gerard Korsten, Gustav Kuhn, Lorin Maazel, Riccardo Muti, Marc Minkowski, Daniel Oren, Aantonio Pappano, Evelino Pidò, Stefano Ranzani, Carlo Rizzi, Hubert Soudant, Jordi Savall, Christian Thielemann, Marcello Viotti, Alberto Zedda.

He appears in many prestigious festival and houses through the world, and he has worked with many directors, including Irina Brook, Robert Carsen, Liliana Cavani, Pippo Crivelli, Paul Curran, Gilbert Deflò, Roberto De Simone, Dario Fo, Michael Hampe, Werner Herzog, Ulrike & Karl-Ernst Herrmann, Gino Landi, Giorgio Marini, J.L.Martinoty, J.M.Flotats, Jonathan Miller, Moni Ovadia, Giuseppe Patroni-Griffi, Pier'Alli, Pierluigi Pizzi, Thomas Richter, Luca Ronconi, Emilio Sagi, Jerome Savary, Fabio Sparvoli, Stefano Vizioli, and Franco Zeffirelli.

He has recorded works for Erato, Harmonia Mundi, Ricordi, Astrae, Opera Rara, Nuova Era, Tactus, Bongiovanni, Claves, Novalis, Naxos.

Many of his shows were broadcast by major international networks, and later on distributed by Rai, Arté, TVE (Spanish TV) and TF (French TV), Nederland 2 (Dutch TV).