Ildebrando D'Arcangelo

Ildebrando D'Arcangelo (born 14 December 1969) is an Italian opera singer. He has been called a bass-baritone, though he prefers the term basso cantabile.

Career A native of Pescara, Abruzzo, D'Arcangelo began his studies in 1985 at the conservatory of Luisa D'Annunzio in Pescara, under Maria Vittoria Romano, honing his skills under Paride Venturi in Bologna.

From 1989 to 1991 he sang at the Concorso Internazionale Toti Dal Monte at Treviso, debuting in Mozart's Così fan tutte and Don Giovanni. He has performed under conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Valery Gergiev, Christopher Hogwood, Georg Solti, Bernard Haitink, Riccardo Muti, James Conlon, John Eliot Gardiner, Riccardo Chailly, Myung-Whun Chung, Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Seiji Ozawa. He has sung at La Scala in Milan, at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, at the Opéra National (Bastille) in Paris, at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, at the Vienna State Opera in Vienna, at the Theater an der Wien, at Los Angeles Opera in California, at Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, and at the Salzburg Festival.

D'Arcangelo released solo albums of Handel arias in September 2009 and Mozart arias in April 2011 from Deutsche Grammophon.

D'Arcangelo was named an Austrian Kammersänger in December 2014.

Repertoire RoleOperaComposerMefistofele Mefistofele BoitoLorenzo I Capuleti e i Montecchi BelliniOroveso Norma BelliniCount Rodolfo La sonnambula BelliniGiorgio I puritani BelliniMéphistophélès La damnation de Faust BerliozEscamillo Carmen BizetRiccardo III Enrico VIII Anna Bolena DonizettiDulcamara L'elisir d'amore DonizettiDon Alfonso Lucrezia Borgia DonizettiCallistene Poliuto DonizettiMéphistophélès Faust GounodCreonte L'anima del filosofo ossia Orfeo ed Euridice HaydnBartoloIl Conte d'AlmavivaFigaro Le nozze di Figaro MozartDon GiovanniLeporelloMasetto Don Giovanni MozartGuglielmoDon AlfonsoCosì fan tutte MozartColline La bohème PucciniCesare Angelotti Tosca PucciniOrbazzano Tancredi RossiniHalyMustafà L'italiana in Algeri RossiniSelim Il turco in Italia RossiniDon Basilio Il barbiere di Siviglia RossiniElmiro Otello RossiniAlidoro La Cenerentola RossiniIdraote Armida RossiniMosè Mosè in Egitto RossiniCapellio Bianca e Falliero RossiniAssurOroe Semiramide RossiniWalter Furst Guillaume Tell RossiniLorenzo La secchia rapita SalieriPirro I Lombardi alla prima crociata VerdiDon Ruy Gomez de Silva Ernani VerdiAttila Attila VerdiBanco Macbeth VerdiMonterone Rigoletto VerdiFerrando Il trovatore VerdiJacopo Fiesco Simon Boccanegra VerdiFilippo IIUn monaco Don Carlo VerdiLodovico Otello VerdiBajazet Bajazet VivaldiAnzoleto Il campiello Wolf-Ferrari

Recordings Audio Verdi: Messa da Requiem, released 19 November 2013, C Major, DVD & Blu-ray: 814337011482, Gustavo Dudamel conductor. Bellini: La sonnambula, released 24 February 2009, L'Oiseau-Lyre 001238302, conductor Alessandro De Marchi. Bellini: I puritani, released 11 October 2010, Decca DVD 00044007433515, conductor Michele Mariotti Bizet: Carmen released 28 October 2008, Decca 001216709, conductor Antonio Pappano. Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore, released 16 January 2007, Virgin Classics 63352, conductor . Donizetti: aria Egli è spento, from Belisario, in Bel Canto Portrait/Nelly Miricioiu, released 14 August 2001, Opera Rara 217, conductor David Parry. Donizetti: aria Addio, in Il Sibilo, released 2 December 2002, Opera Rara 219, piano David Harper. Donizetti: aria Addio brunetta, son già lontano, in Il Sibilo, released 2 December 2002, Opera Rara 219, piano David Harper. Mozart: Don Giovanni, released 11 August 1998, Deutsche Grammophon 457601, conductor Claudio Abbado. Mozart: Don Giovanni, released 13 February 2007, Deutsche Grammophon 000817509 and Decca DVD 000838309, conductor Daniel Harding. Mozart: Don Giovanni, released 20 November 2007, TDK 2103003, conductor Riccardo Muti. Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, released 13 February 2007, Deutsche Grammophon 000987602 and 000987502, DVD 000817509 and 000879909, conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, released 3 July 1995, Deutsche Grammophon 445903, conductor Claudio Abbado. Pacini: aria Come nube che leggera, in Il Sibilo, released 2 December 2002, Opera Rara 219, piano David Harper. Rossini: Bianca e Falliero, released 11 December 2001, Opera Rara 20, conductor David Parry. Rossini: aria "Che smania! ahimè! che affanno... L'error d'un infelice" from Otello, conductor David Parry, in Tyrants and Lovers, released 13 August 2002, Opera Rara 221. Rossini: Semiramide, released 25 July 2006, Nightingale Classics 207013, conductor . Rossini: Stabat Mater, released 1 November 2010, EMI Classics 5099964052922, conductor Antonio Pappano. Verdi: I Lombardi alla prima crociata, released 16 September 1997, Decca 455287, conductor James Levine. Verdi: Messa da Requiem, released 27 March 2001, Philips 468079 and DVD 000157119, conductor Valery Gergiev. Verdi: Messa da Requiem, released 30 August 2005, RCA Victor red seal 61244, conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Verdi: Otello, released 11 October 1994, Deutsche Grammophon 439805, conductor Myung-Whun Chung. Verdi: aria "Niun mi tema" from Otello, conductor Myung-Whun Chung in Bravo Domingo!, released 15 September 1998, Deutsche Grammophon 000719102 (re-released as Truly Domingo, 10 October 2006, same catalogue number). Verdi: Rigoletto, released 20 October 1998, Deutsche Grammophon 447064, conductor James Levine. Giuseppe Verdi: Il trovatore, released 17 September 2002, EMI Classics 57360, conductor Antonio Pappano. Vivaldi: Bajazet, released 10 May 2005, Virgin Classics 45676 45676, conductor Fabio Biondi. Vivaldi: aria "Nasce rosa lusinghiera" from Bajazet, conductor Fabio Biondi in Best 100 Vivaldi, released 12 February 2008, EMI Classics 10358.

Video Tancredi (Schwetzingen Festival) L'elisir d'amore (Wiener Staatsoper) Don Giovanni (Theater an der Wien) Don Giovanni (Salzburger Festspiele) Le nozze di Figaro (Salzburger Festspiele) Carmen (Royal Opera House) I Puritani (Teatro Comunale di Bologna) Anna Bolena (Wiener Staatsoper) Verdi Requiem (Los Angeles Philharmonic) L’elisir d’amore (Baden-Baden Festspielhaus) Don Giovanni (Macerata Opera Festival) Don Giovanni (Salzburg Festival)