User:Matteo Macchioni

Biography
Matteo Macchioni was born in Sassuolo (Modena), and he has been studying music since he was a child. In October 2007 he gets his Master’s degree in pianoforte with honours. During the pianoforte studying years he carries out an intense concert activity and he begins to study Liric singing.

In 2008 Matteo has been the youngest Tenor ever to get to the final round at “Pavarotti international voice competition”, an international singing contest where 50 lyrical voices coming from 24 countries around the world competed. During that event the Tenor Carlo Bergonzi gave him his appraisal and encouragement.

In 2010 Matteo takes part in the famous Italian TV talent show “Amici” (similar to American Idol) where he stands out for his extraordinary and versatile voice. Caterina Caselli Sugar decides to invest and believe in a new opera/pop project. In the spring of 2010 Matteo signs with Sugar and starts working on his first recording project.. In June 2010 Matteo makes his opera debut at “Teatro Giuseppe Verdi” of Salerno as Nemorino in “Elisir D’amore” of Gaetano Donizetti, under the conduction of the Israeli Maestro Daniel Oren.

On the 25th Jan 2011 Sugar releases “D’altro Canto”, Matteo’s first record, which is given great reviews by the press and which includes remarkable artistic collaborations: Pacifico, Francesco Tricarico, Francesco Sartori (composer of the hit “Time to say goodbye”), Danijel Vuletic, Vince Mendoza, Giuseppe Vessicchio, Marco Sabiu, Fabio Properzi, Paolo Buonvino, Pierdavide Carone, Ferdinando Arnò.

In the spring of the same year, Matteo meets the bass baritone Natale De Carolis. Under his guide Matteo debuts and performs in the “Trapanese July Musical” Festival interepreting the role of Ernesto from the “Don Pasquale” of Gaetano Donizetti.

In the first half of 2012 Matteo starts performing abroad, taking part in important musical events in Brazil, Turkey, Slovakia and Czech Republic. Meanwhile, Matteo starts a fruitful collaboration with De Agostini Publishing. As a result of this collaboration he becomes the anchor of a new tv show called “Mozart a modo mio”, which is broadcast on Deakids (Sky 601). The show comes from a collaboration with As.Li.Co (Italian operas and concerts association), it has popular appeal and it is also a success with critics.

In June 2012 gets to the final round of “Toti Dal Monte” international singing contest. In September 2012 makes his successful debut at Stresa Festival, playing the role of the Count of Almaviva in The Barber of Seville by Gioacchino Rossini.

In spring 2013, De Agostini Publishing asks Matteo to present the second season of its tv format for children which was succesful in 2012. The title of the second season is “Wagner a modo mio” and it has been shown on DeaKids (Sky 601).

In 2014, besides concerts and tv commitments with De Agostini Publishing broadcasted on Sky, he debuts in Puccini’s opera “Madame Butterfly”, along with a famous international cast, including the famous Soprano Daniela Dessì and the Tenor Fabio Armiliato, and in Mozart’s “Nozze di Figaro” with the Austrian conductor Johannes Wildner. Both operas are on stage at Genoa’s Opera House “Carlo Felice”. Matteo is one of the protagonists of Karol Wojtyla – The true story wich debuts at the Cracovia Opera House on the 2nd of April 2014 to then carry on to Rome, where Pope Giovanni Paolo II’s canonization is celebrated.

In June 2014, Matteo returns to Geona’s Opera House “Carlo Felice”, to interpret the Count of Almaviva from Baber of Seville by Gioacchino Rossini and in August he debuts in Viaggio a Reims (by the same composer), at the Rossini Opera Festival. Among his future engagements, it should be noted “The barber of Seville” at Verdi Theatre of Padova and his debut in the role of Abate di Chazeuil from Adriana Lecouvreur by Francesco Cilea, on tour with “Circuito Lirico Lombardo” in the Theatres of Como (Sociale), Pavia (Fraschini), Cremona (Ponchielli) and Sassari (Verdi).

Among the future commitments there will be the debut in Britten’s Billy Budd conducted by Andrea Battistoni and directed by Davide Livermore at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, the debut in Mozart’s Don Giovanni (as Don Ottavio) at the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza, conducted by John Battista Rigon, the participation in the Rossini Opera Festival La gazza ladra, conducted by Donato Renzetti and directed by Damiano Michieletto, together with the Barber of Seville and Don Giovanni in Clermont-Ferrand, then on tour in France.

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