Taormina Vincenzo

Representation: ITALY

Born in Palermo, he starts his vocal studies with Paride Venturi alongside getting his degree in Architecture; he then attends courses at the Accademia of Teatro alla Scala in Milano and at the Carlo Bergonzi Accademia Verdiana in Busseto.

Thanks to his imposing stage presence and vocal skills he quickly established himself as one of the most prominent baritones of his generation in a wide repertoire which includes: Zurga in Les pechéurs de perles (Venice, Parma and Modena); Nearque in Gounod’s Polyeucte (Martina Franca); Azzo in Donizetti’s Parisina (Bergamo); Folco in Donizetti’s Ugo, Conte di Parigi (Catania); Ruggiero in La Juive (Venice); Riccardo in I Puritani (Palermo and Savonlinna); Fabrizio in La gazza ladra (Bologna); Lescaut in Massenet’s Manon (La Scala and Palermo); Prosdocimo in Il turco in Italia (Genova, Torino and Dijon); Guglielmo in Così fan tutte (Palermo); Belcore in L’elisir d’amore (Florence and Verona); Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia (La Scala, Verona, Venice, Abu Dhabi, Rome, Palermo and Toulouse) and as Don Bartolo (Cagliari, Parma and Catania); Schaunard and Marcello in La bohéme (Arena di Verona, La Scala, Bari, Palermo, Catania, Glyndebourne, Cagliari and Seoul); Il Marchese Tulipano in Paisiello‘s Il matrimonio inaspettato(Salzburg); Germont in La traviata (Saint-Etienne, Palermo and on a Japan tour with Covent Garden); Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor (Berlin); Rambaldo in La rondine (Toulon); Masetto in Don Giovanni (Arena di Verona); Silvio in Pagliacci (Taormina and Naples); Ping in Turandot (Arena di Verona, Muscat, Genova, Palermo, Bologna and St. Margarethen); Ford in Falstaff (Busseto); Sharpless in Madama Butterfly (Florence, Palermo, Naples and Seoul); Sulpice in La fille du régiment (La Scala, Palermo and Muscat); Il barone Zeta in La vedova allegra (Salerno); Paolo in Simon Boccanegra (Beijing); Pacuvio in La pietra del paragone and Il Re in Respighi’s La bella addormentata nel bosco (Cagliari); Fra’ Melitone in La forza del destino (Genova); Don Magnifico in La Cenerentola (Brescia, Pavia, Cremona, Bergamo, Como, Bologna and as Dandini (Catania); Tobia Mill in La cambiale di matrimonio and Don Annibale Pistacchio in Il campanello (Cagliari).

At Teatro alla Scala he sang: Marco in Gianni Schicchi, Mamma Agata in Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali, Taddeo in L’italiana in Algeri and Germano in La scala di seta.

He has worked, among others, with such important conductors as: Abel, Allemandi, Arrivabeni, Battistoni, Bisatti, Campanella, Chailly, Chaslin, Chung, Dudamel, Fourniller, Mariotti, Muti, Neschling, Oren, Pappano, Plasson, Quatrain, Renzetti, Rousset, Santi, Soudant, Steinberg, Webb and directors such as: Albanese, Barberio-Corsetti, Cavani, Crivelli, Gandini, Joel, Livermore, Mariani, McVicar, Michieletto, Morassi, Pizzi, Ronconi, Sparvoli, Zeffirelli.

Among his recent and future engagements: Dulcamara in L’elisir d’amore in Cagliari, Bologna and Prague; Malatesta in Don Pasquale in Cagliari and his debut in the title role in Prague: Geronimo in Il matrimonio segreto in Palermo; Marcello in La bohème and Ping in Turandot in Catania; Don Magnifico and Dandini in La Cenerentola, Leporello in Don Giovani, Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia and his debut in the tile role in Falstaff at Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse; Don Bartolo in Il barbiere di Siviglia in Cagliari, Palermo and Tel Aviv; Taddeo in L’italiana in Algeri in Rome, Ravenna and Trento; Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia in Ljubliana with Teatro La Fenice; Gaudenzio in Il signor Bruschino in Verona.