Kunde Gregory

Representation: ITALY

Biography

Regarded as one of the most elegant and complete belcanto singers on the opera stage today, he has appeared on the world’s greatest stages: Teatro alla Scala, Metropolitan Opera, Chicago Lyric Opera, Wiener Staatsoper, Bayerishe Staatsoper, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Rossini Opera Festival, Opera di Roma, Théâtre du Châtelet, Zurich Opernhaus, etc… He works regularly with today’s most important conductors and directors, among which: Roberto Abbado, Richard Bonynge, Daniele Callegari, Riccardo Chailly, Myung-Whun Chung, Sir Colin Davis, Hugo de Ana, Giancarlo del Monaco, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Davide Livermore, David McVicar, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Kent Nagano, John Nelson, Gianandrea Noseda, Antonio Pappano, Pier Luigi Pizzi, Michel Plasson, Georges Pretre, Stefano Ranzani, Sir Simon Rattle, Luca Ronconi, Claudio Scimone, Jeffrey Tate, Alberto Zedda, etc…

Having reigned internationally for many decades in the belcanto repertoire (Bellini, Rossini, Donizetti), in recent years he triumphed in: La Damnation de Faust with the San Francisco Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Welsh National Opera, Philadelphia Orchestra conducte by Simon Rattle, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Toronto Symphony, BBC Philharmonic conducted by Gianandrea Noseda, Amsterdam Konzertgebouw; Benvenuto Cellini with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Colin Davis; Norma (Pollione) at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome conducted by Kent Nagano, at the Liceu in Barcelona, at La Fenice in Venice, in Munich, Liège and Bilbao; Das Lied von der Erde at the Carnegie Hall in New York; Verdi’s Messa da Requiem in Lima, Palermo and, conducted by Chung in Florence; I vespri siciliani in Turin conducted by Noseda, in the french version in Naples, Bilbao and Valencia; Les Huguenots in Strasbourg; Un ballo in maschera in Turino, Bologna and La Coruna; Verdi’s Otello at La Fenice in Venice, in Japan and in Palazzo Ducale conducted by Myung-Whun Chung, as well as at the Palau de les Arts in Valencia conducted by da Zubin Mehta, at Teatro Regio in Turin conducted by Noseda, at Teatro Carlo Felice in Genova, in Seville, Wiesbaden, Madrid and London with Antonio Pappano; Aida in Sao Paulo, Verona, Madrid and Moscow with Zubin Mehta; Peter Grimes conducted by Antonio Pappano at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and in Valencia; Les Troyens with Pappano and McVicar at La Scala in Milan; La forza del destino conducted by Zubin Mehta in Valencia and in Dresden; Il Trovatore at La Fenice in Venice, at La Coruna and at Covent Garden; Luisa Miller at the Opéra de Liège; Cavalleria rusticana/Pagliacci at the ABAO in Bilbao; Samson et Dalila in Turin and Valencia; Manon Lescaut at the ABAO in Bilbao and at Teatro Regio in Turin; Andrea Chenier at the Opera di Roma and in Bilbao.

He made is European debut as a conductor at the Donizetti Festival in Bergamo with Donizettis’ Gemma di Vergy (recorded on dvd) and also conducted Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia at Gran Teatro La Fenice in Venice and a Concert at the Opéra de Nice.

Among his recent and future engagements: Ernani in Lisbon, Piacenza, Ferrara and Reggio Emilia; Turandot, Otello, Luisa Miller and Andrea Chénier at Teatro Comunale in Bologna; La forza del destino at Verdi Festival in Parma; Il Trovatore and Aida at the Los Angeles Opera; Turandot at Teatro Real in Madrid, at the Arena di Verona, at the Opéra de Paris and at the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago; Otello at the Liceu in Barcellona, at the Wiener Staatsoper, in Munich, at Covent Garden in London, in Dresden, Piacenza, Modena, Reggio Emilia, at Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, at Teatro Bellini in Catania and at the Colòn in Buenos Aires; Aida, Andrea Chénier and Il Trovatore in Wien; Le Prophète in Berlin; Don Carlos in Liège; Messa da Requiem conducted by Zubin Mehta in Tel Aviv; Aida, Turandot, La fanciulla del west and Die große Stille in Hamburg; I Pagliacci in Dresda, Parma, Bologna, Venice and Ravenna; Aida at the Cincinnati Opera, at Teatro dell’Opera in Rome and at the Arena di Verona; Les Troyens in Munich; Il Tabarro (Luigi) and Tosca at Teatro dell’Opera in Rome conducted by Michele Mariotti; La Juive, Andrea Chènier and Pagliacci at Teatro Regio in Torin; Billy Bud at the Wiener Staatsoper; Andrea Chénier at the Deutsche Oper in Berlino, in Parma and in Rome; Peter Grimes at Teatro San Carlo in Naples.