Dolce Vita - French and Italian Songs & Chansons (1932-1956) Marco Angioloni & Ensemble Contraste

Marco Angioloni
Graduate of the Royaumont Foundation, the Baroque Academy of Ambronay, and the Cini Foundation in Venice, Marco Angioloni trained in lyrical singing with Donatella Debolini in Florence, followed by further studies in Paris under Enzo La Selva. He then specialized in Baroque repertoire at the Center for Baroque Music in Versailles (CMBV). His stage debut took place in 2013 in the role of Normanno (Lucia di Lammermoor) at the Apostrophe Theatre in Cergy-Pontoise (95). Since then, he has performed alongside conductors such as Andrew Lawrence King, Nicola Piovani, Marcello Rota, Jonathan Webb, David Fallis, Paul Agnew, Filippo Maria Bressan, Geoffroy Jourdain, Christophe Rousset, Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Stéphane Fuget, and Alessandro De Marchi. Among his roles are Orfeo (Monteverdi’s Orfeo), Lurcanio (Ariodante), Goro (Madama Butterfly), Truffaldino (The Love for Three Oranges), Arlecchino (Pagliacci), Bastien (Bastien and Bastienne), the Son (Les mamelles de Tirésias), the Brazilian (La Vie Parisienne), the Knight of the Force (Dialogues des Carmélites), Achilles/Orestes (La belle Hélène), and Soliman (Zaide). He was a member of the fourth generation of Opera Fuoco’s Lyric Workshop led by David Stern. His two solo albums, “Il Canto della Nutrice” (Da Vinci Classics 2020) and “A Baroque Tenor” (Pan Classics 2022), received excellent reviews and were featured at the Handel Festival in Halle, the Salle Blanche du Palais Pitti in Florence, and the Pontoise Baroque Festival. In recent seasons, he appeared as Apollo and Ireno in a production of Landi’s La Morte d’Orfeo at the Royaumont Festival with Les Talens Lyriques/Christophe Rousset, as Vulcan in Lully’s Psyché (conducted by Stéphane Fuget), as Murmilla in Telemann’s Richard Löwenherz at the Magdeburg Opera (Germany), in Idomeneo (Arbace) under the direction of David Stern, in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas and Charpentier’s Actéon at the Menton Festival, again under the direction of Christophe Rousset. More recently, he made his debut at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires in Monteverdi’s L’Incoronazione di Poppea, at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Handel’s Dixit Dominus, both under the direction of Jean-Christophe Spinosi. He also took on roles such as Prunier (La Rondine), Mr. Stevens (Lady in the Dark), Governor/Vanderdendur (Candide), Don Basilio/Curzio (Le Nozze di Figaro), Ercole in Melani’s Ercole in Tebe (Ercole) at the Teatro della Pergola in Florence, and Anapiet in Pallavicino’s Le Amazzoni nelle Isole fortunate (Anapiet) at the Potsdam Festival and the Beaune Festival, under the direction of Christophe Rousset/Les Talens Lyriques, as well as in L’Isola disabitata (Gernando) at the Clermont-Ferrand Opera. In 2023, he made his conducting debut with the Il Groviglio ensemble, part of the Château de Versailles Spectacles season, for Handel’s opera Poro and Rinaldo (1731 version), the latter being a world premiere recording. These recordings are set to be released by Château de Versailles Spectacles and Glossa labels in 2024. In the 2023/24 season, he will debut as Liberto (L’incoronazione di Poppea) at the Beaune Festival and Château de Versailles Spectacles under the direction of Stéphane Fuget, as well as in the roles of Pastore and Spirito in Monteverdi’s Orfeo under the baton of Jordi Savall at the Royal Opera of the Palace of Versailles.

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