Marco Berti

Manrico, Ernani, Enzo Grimaldo, Riccardo, Mario Cavaradossi, Des Grieux, Maurizio di Sassonia, Calaf, Canio, Radames, Pinkerton, Don José are  Marco Berti’s  main roles.

He was born in Como and graduated in 1989 from the Verdi conservatory in Milan under the guidance of Maestro Giovanna Canetti. He pursued  his vocal studies with Adelaide Saraceni, Pier Miranda Ferraro and GianFranca Ostini. He made his debut in 1990 in Cosenza, as the winner of the international Giacomantonio competition, as Pinkerton /  Madama Butterfly. From this moment on he has enjoyed  a brilliant career in the main Italian and foreign theaters, where he always played roles that highlighted, in addition to the clarity of his phrasing, the softness and the timbre of his voice considered today, by authoritative critics, one of the most beautiful in the Italian panorama.

Among the main theaters he has sung : Teatro alla Scala, Teatro Regio of Turin, Teatro Regio of Parma, Comunale of Florence and Maggio Fiorentino, Fenice of Venice, Comunale of Bologna, San Carlo of Naples, Massimo of Palermo, Metropolitan Opera of New York, Covent Garden of London, Opera Bastille of Paris, Deutsche Oper of Berlin, Staathoper of Vienna, Saathoper of Berlin, Opern Hause of Zurich, Teatro Real of Madrid, Liceu of Barcelona etc.

He is also appreciated and requested for his qualities by the main conductors of our time, such as Antonio Pappano, Riccardo Muti, Gianandrea Gavazzeni, James Conlon, Maurizio Benini, Marco Armiliato, Roberto Abbado, Daniel Oren etc.

Last season he sang Otello in Roma, Bari, and Tbilissi, Mefistofele and Tosca in Cagliari, Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci in Taormina.

This season he will be singing a.o. Luigi / Tabarro in Bilbao, Manrico / Trovatore in Hamburg, Maurizio / Adriana Lecouvreur and Enzo Grimaldi / Gioconda in Cagliari.

His discography include : Cristoforo Colombo by Franchetti, Manon Lescaut and Turandot by Puccini, Lucia di Lammermoor by Donizetti, Attila, Ernani, Aida  and Requiem by Verdi, Carmen by Bizet, Ponchielli’s Gioconda, and several recitals: Rare Verismo Arias, Christmas Album…

Representation : World except Italy