GIOVANNI COLETTA

Tenore

audio Gianni Schicchi

 

Born in Taranto, Giovanni Coletta graduated in singing from the Conservatorio Nino Rota of Monopoli in 2004. He lives in Modena.

He focuses in particular on Rossini’s and Donizetti’s repertoire, but also on authors of the eighteen-century’s such as Paisiello and Mozart as well as to operas like Don Pasquale, La fille du regiment, Rita, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Rigoletto and other more.

He partecipated to Masterclasses with Luciana Serra, Anna Vandi, Vittorio Terranova, Katia Ricciarelli, Riccardo Serenelli, Claudio Desideri, Sherman Lowe and others; in 2005 he attended the Academy of the Teatro alla Scala and the Paolo Grassi Academy in Milan.

Competitions and awards:

2004: Winner of the Competition Trotta in Castelnuovo della Daunia (Foggia).

Operatic debuts and activity:

2003: Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Conte d’Almaviva), G. F. Händel’s Il Messiah – Taranto;

2004: Die Dreigroschenoper (Macheath) – Bari; Italian serenade - Kansas City (USA).

2005: he has done his debut as Tebaldo in Marchetti’s Romeo e Giulietta at the Festival of Valle d’Itria under the baton of M°A.Yurchevych.

2007: Salome - 33° Festival of Valle d’Itria, conducted by Massimiliano Caldi and recorded for Dynamic.

2007: U.Giordano’s Marcella (Barthelemy) - 33° Festival della Valle d’Itria; conducted by Manlio Benzi and recorded for Dynamic. The same opera was performed again under the conduction of M° Tarabella in Foggia.

2008: F.Lotoro’s Misha e i lupi (Lupo Capo); concert Il lied e l’orchestra conducted by Lior Shambadal – Foggia. Tournèe with Corrado Abbiati’s Operetta Company. He performed La vedova allegra (Camillo de Rossillon), La principessa della Czarda (Edvino), Eva (Octave Flaubert) singing in the following italian theatres: Teatro Regio Parma, Teatro Ponchielli Cremona, Teatro Politeama Greco Lecce, Teatro Piccinni Bari, Teatro Alighieri Ravenna, Teatro Chiabrera Savona, Teatro Fraschini Pavia, Teatro Carcano Milano, Teatro Coccia Novara, Teatro Goldoni Livorno, etc.

2010: Il Cairo: Stabat mater by Dvorak.