Guido Loconsolo
Baritone
BIOGRAPHY
Made his debut at the opera stage in 2003 as Samuel (Un ballo in maschera by Verdi) at the Teatro Orvieto (Italy). Was a member of the Young Artists Program of the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, where he appeared as Guglielmo in Cosi fan tutte, the Count in Le nozze di Figaro, as Paolo in a concert performance of Simon Boccanegra conducted by Daniele Gatti, and also he has taken part in a production of Tchaikovsky’s rarely performed Tchreviscki.
Among important roles in his career such as Marcello in La Boheme at the Teatro Regio in Torino, as Leporello at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow (staged by Dmitry Tchernyakov and conducted by Teodor Currentzis), as Belcore in L’elisir d’amore at the Staasoper Berlin and Opéra de Lille, as Escamillo in Carmen at the Teatro Lirico in Cagliari, as Publio in La Clemenza di Tito at the Teatro Real in Madrid. In the 2012/2013 season, Guido Loconsolo made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera as Achilla in Giulio Cesare.
Other roles in his repertoire include the title role in Don Giovanni, Malatesta in Don Pasquale, Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor, Valentin in Faust and Lescaut in both Manon and Manon Lescaut. He is a regular guest of the Glyndebourne Festival Opera as Achille in David McVicar’s production of Giulio Cesare, as Ford in Falstaff, and as Masetto in a new production of Don Giovanni conducted by Vladimir Jurowski, as Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro.
Prizewinner at the International Giacomo Lauri-Volpi Competition (1st prize, 2004).
