Marco Spotti

Marco Spotti was born in Parma and studied in his hometown at the Conservatorio Arrigo Boito. After completing his studies, he debuted in Un Ballo in Maschera at the Teatro Regio in Parma. Further engagements quickly followed, bringing him to prestigious venues such as the Teatro alla Scala, the Royal Opera Covent Garden in London, the Theatre Champs Élysées, the Netherlands Opera in Amsterdam, the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, the Opera Rome, the Teatro La Fenice, the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, and the Grand Théâtre in Geneva. He has also performed at opera houses in Parma, Torino, Bologna, Palermo, Catania, Naples, Cologne, Buenos Aires, the Rossini Festival Pesaro, the Opéra Royal de Liège, the Palau de les Arts in Valencia, Tel Aviv with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome with its orchestra.

He has regularly collaborated with notable conductors such as Riccardo Muti, Nello Santi, Daniele Gatti, James Conlon, Riccardo Chailly, Daniel Barenboim, Valery Gergiev, Gianandrea Noseda, Myung-Whun Chung, Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, Ottavio Dantone, and Antonio Pappano.

His broad repertoire includes roles such as Il Re & Ramfis in Aida, Fiesco in Simon Boccanegra, Inquisitore in Don Carlo, Wurm in Luisa Miller, Sparafucile in Rigoletto, Procida in I Vespri Siciliani, Loredano in I Due Foscari, Timur in Turandot, Walther in Guillaume Tell, Enrico VIII in Anna Bolena, Alvise in La Gioconda, Papa Clemente VII in Benvenuto Cellini, and Basilio in Il Barbiere di Siviglia.

He has performed Timur in Turandot, Wurm in Luisa Miller, and Ferrando in Il Trovatore at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, Il Gran Inquisitore in Don Carlo in Valencia, Papa Clemente VII in Benvenuto Cellini at the Opéra National de Paris, as well as Walther in Guillaume Tell at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Federico Barbarossa in La Battaglia di Legnano at the Maggio Musicale in Florence, and Alvise Badoero in La Gioconda at Grange Park Opera.

Furthermore, he was Fernand in Les Trouvères at the Verdi Festival in Parma and made his debut in the title role of Mephistopheles in Tokyo. He has also performed Ferrando in Il Trovatore in Bologna and at the Opera di Roma, Wurm in Luisa Miller at the Teatro Liceu in Barcelona, Attila at the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, and Don Basilio in Il Barbiere di Siviglia and Inquisitore in Don Carlo at the New National Theatre in Tokyo.

He performed La Forza del Destino and Grand Inquisiteur in Don Carlos at the Teatro Regio in Parma.

He has won several singing competitions, including the Concorso Riccardo Zandonai in Riva del Garda, the Concorso Voci Verdiane in Busseto, the Concorso Viotti-Valsesia, and in Sanremo.