BARITONO

Born in Siena in 1985, Francesco  Salvadori   graduated  at the Cherubini Conservatory in Firenze  .   He attended masterclasses  at the Centre del Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia and at  the Advanced Course of  Teatro Lirico Sperimentale in Spoleto, after winning the Spoleto Singing Competition in 2013.   He also  attended masterclasses held by Eva Marton, Lella Cuberli, Rockwell Blake, Renato Bruson, Enza Ferrari, Antonio Juvarra and Claudio Desideri.     He sang at the Verbier Festival, Festival dei due Mondi in Spoleto and  Cantiere Internazionale d’Arte in Montepulciano.     He sang Malatesta in Don Pasquale at   Opera de Bienne,    Guglielmo in Mozart’s Così fan tutte at    Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, conducted by  Roland Böer, directed by Lorenzo Mariani, in October 2015.   In the same year  he   sang Schaunard in Puccini’s Bohème at the Verbier Festival.   In 2017  he sang  Schaunard  at  Teatro la Fenice in Venezia, directed by Francesco Micheli,   conducted by  Stefano Ranzani.    At Teatro La Fenice he  sang Morales in Carmen, directed by Bieito, under the baton of Myung-Whun Chung.     He then made his debut at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma in Lulu  by Berg, (the Journalist)  ,   conductor James Conlon, directed by Kentridge.      At the Verdi Festival in Parma he sang in Jerusalem in 2017 while at   Teatro dell’Opera di Roma he was invited for  Billy Budd in 2018.        He also sang il Capitano in Puccini’s Manon Lescaut in Valencia alongside Placido Domingo, while at the Gulbekian Foundation he sang Ben in Menotti’s The Telephone.  Recent performances have included Baron Totaro in Cimarosa’s I due Baroni   in Genova, Scythe in Gluck’s Iphigenie en Tauride in Paris, Théâtre des Champs Elysées, where he returned in 2022 to sing Achilles in Händel’s Giulio Cesare, and in 2023 for Les Mamelles de Tirésias and Schaunard in La Bohème   .

Highlights of 2024 season were his debut in Bologna as Aeneas in Dido and Eneas by Purcell, conductor Angius and  Lescaut in Aubert Manon Lescaut al Teatro Regio di Torino, a production by Arnaud Bernard, conductor Guillaume Tourniere.

In the past seasons  he was  Belcore in Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’Amore in Piacenza, conducted by Stefano Ranzani and directed by Leo Nucci.    He took part in Puccini’s Manon Lescaut ( Comandante di Marina ) at the Palau de les Arts in Valencia, directed by Medcalf, conductor Placido Domingo, which became a recording and DVD for Decca.    With the Opéra de Chambre de Genève, he sang Baron Totato in I due baroni  by Cimarosa, conductor Bellotto.     In 2013, he sang with F.M. Sardelli the part of Niceno in Antonio Vivaldi’s L’Incoronazione di Dario,   directed by Davide Livermore at    Palau de les Arts in Valencia.     In 2012 he debuted in his first Così fan tutte  in Todi, singing Guglielmo, a role he revived at the Auditorio de Tenerife in 2013 . In the field of contemporary music, he sang at the Teatro Grande in Brescia in Montalbetti’s Brimborium, conducted by Carlo Boccadoro, which he had already  sang   in 2012 at  Cantiere Internazionale d’Arte di Montepulciano .   His repertoire  includes  the roles of Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Leporello, Masetto as well as   Conte di Almaviva,  Malatesta and Belcore in Don Pasquale,  Albert in Werther and the main baritone parts in the symphonic and sacred repertoire.