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Marco Vratogna Baritone

Born in La Spezia, Marco Vratogna began his musical studies at the Puccini Conservatory.

Renowned around the world for his distinctive voice of staggering range, timbre and amplitude, Marco Vratogna made his operatic debut in December 2000, in the role of Stankar in Stiffelio by Verdi at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste. From then on, the Italian baritone enjoyed success on the world’s greatest stages. He performed as Paolo Albiani in Simon Boccanegra at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Conte di Luna in Il Trovatore at the Teatro de la Maestranza in Sevilla, Germont in La Traviata at the Teatro Verdi in Salerno. Prestigious was his debut in the title role of Macbeth under the baton of Massimo de Bernart at the Teatro Comunale in Modena where he subsequently returned for a recital and a concert celebrating the 40 years of Luciano Pavarotti’s career (with Leone Magiera).

Recent seasons saw him at the Opera Company of Philadelphia in Carmen, at the Teatro Alighieri in Ravenna and at the Oper Frankfurt in Nabucco, at the Teatro Comunale in Florence with Claudio Abbado and at the Teatro Regio di Torino (Graham Vick, stage director) in Simon Boccanegra (Paolo Albiani), at the Teatro Municipale Verdi in Salerno in Il Trovatore (Luna), I Pagliacci (Tonio) and Cavalleria rusticana (Alfio), again as Luna in Il Trovatore at the Staatstheater Stuttgart, at the Oper Frankfurt as Tonio in I Pagliacci. Marco Vratogna also enjoys a successful collaboration with the Teatro Verdi in Trieste, where he sang in Simon Boccanegra and Il Trovatore.

Marco Vratogna sang in various European theatres: Il Trovatore (Conte di Luna) in Stuttgart, I Masnadieri (Francesco) at the La Monnaie in Bruxelles, Nabucco at the Teatro Felice in Genoa and Tosca at the Staatsoper of Berlin and at the Opera of Frankfurt; a new production of Otello at the Staatstheater of Stuttgart, Nabucco at Caracalla, Tosca in Berlin and Frankfurt, L’amore dei tre Re in Turin, Simon Boccanegra in Cagliari, Un Ballo in Maschera and Macbeth at the Opera of Frankfurt, Otello at the Classic Openair of Solothurn, a new production of Madama Butterfly in Stuttgart, a new production of Simon Boccanegra in Amsterdam. He sang Ballo in Maschera at the Carlo Felice theatre in Genoa and obtained a great success singing Luisa Miller in Leipzig, Andrea Chenier in Berlin as well as Otello at the Teatro Regio of Parma. He also sang Otello and Tosca in Hamburg and mad is debut at the Arena of Verona with Nabucco and Aida, Otelloat the Teatro Regio in Parma, Edgar in Turin. He made his Covent Garden’s debut with Un Ballo in Maschera, at the Teatro Real in Madrid and with Simone Boccanegra at Liceu in Barcelona.

He obtained a great success with his Opera Stockolm’s debut in a new production of Macbeth, singing a new production of Aida at Staatoper in Munchen directed by Daniele Gatti and with Otello at Semperoper in Dresden.

Recently he sang Otello in Sanfrancisco under the baton of Nicola Luisotti to great acclaim.

Future engagements include:Andrea Chenier at Teatro Real in Madrid, a new production of Aida at Coven Garden, a new Aida in San Francisco conducted by Nicola Luisotti, Fanciulla del West at the Lyric Opera in Chicago,a new production of Attila at the Teatro La Scala in Milan, Un ballo in maschera directed by Fabio Luisi in Dresden, Attila in Seattle.

He has recorded Stiffelio of Verdi for the Dynamic.

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