Born in Monza, he studied singing with Vittorio Terranova, Aldo Protti and attended Alfredo Kraus’ masterclass. He also graduated in piano, in 1994, and in composition, in 1998, at the Conservatory G. Verdi in Milan.
Valter made his operatic debut in 1993 in the role of Duca di Mantova in Rigoletto at the Holland Park Theatre of London.
He has worked with leading directors and conductors as Luca Ronconi, Pier Luigi Pizzi, Hugo de Ana, Vincenzo Scaparro, Beppe De Tomasi, Daniele Abbado, Marta Domingo, Liliana Cavani, Graham Vick, Pierfrancesco Maestrini, Lamberto Puggelli, Robert Wilson; Stefano Ranzani, John Neschling, Romano Gandolfi, Bruno Campanella, Vjekoslav Sutej, Donato Renzetti, Alain Guingal, Kent Nagano, Yacek Kaspscik, Antonello Allemandi, Carlo Palleschi, Lukas Karitynos, Nello Santi.
He recorded for the Kicco Music Le Villi/Roberto and Simon Boccanegra/Gabriele Adorno,
and for the label Dynamyc the role of Conte Neipperg in Madame Sans-
He has sung in Verdi's Requiem conducted by Alberto Veronesi in the Sala Verdi
Conservatory in Milan and the Teatro di Fano, with Romano Gandolfi at the Regio of
Parma, at Teatro Valli di Reggio Emilia, Teatro Fraschini Pavia and conducted by
Carlo Palleschi at Auditorium in Strasbourg.
2011: Tosca/Cavaradossi at Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm.
2012: La rondine in Helsinki.
Repertoire:
G. Verdi
Aida (Radames) – Opernhaus in Zurich, Riga, Teatro Verdi in Trieste;
Attila (Foresto) – Teatro Filarmonico in Verona;
Il Corsaro (Corrado) – Teatro Politeama in Lecce;
Il Trovatore (Manrico) – Maggio Musicale Fiorentino;
La Traviata (Alfredo) – Wiener Volksoper, Arena in Verona;
Luisa Miller (Rodolfo) – Busseto;
Macbeth (Macduff) – Teatro Verdi in Trieste;
Nabucco (Ismaele) – Arena in Verona, Staatsoper Frankfurt, Teatro Lirico in Cagliari, Avenches Opera Festival, Rovigo, Bolzano, Pisa, Trento;
Oberto Conte di S. Bonifacio (Riccardo) – Teatro Filarmonico in Verona;
Rigoletto (Duca di Mantova) – National Theatre in Seoul, Terme di Caracalla in Rome, Opernhaus Zurich, Paphos Opera Festival in Cyprus, in Hong Kong and at Auditorium Nacional in Mexico City with the Teatro Regio of Parma, in Busseto with Fondazione Toscanini;
Simon Boccanegra (Gabriele Adorno) – Opera Royal de Wallonie in Liege;
Requiem – Messina, Teatro Regio in Parma, Reggio Emilia, Pavia, Strasbourg, Nancy.
G. Puccini
Gianni Schicchi (Rinuccio) – Wiener Staatsoper;
La bohème (Rodolfo) -
La rondine (Ruggero) – Teatro del Giglio in Lucca, Wielki Theatre in Warsaw;
Le Villi (Roberto) – recorder for Kicco Music;
Madama Butterfly (Pinkerton) – Los Angeles Opera, Graz, Palma de Majorca, Terme di Caracalla in Rome, National Theatre in Athen;
Manon Lescaut (Des Grieux) – Danish National Opera;
Tosca (Cavaradossi) – Stockholm, Messina, Como, Cremona, Brescia, Pavia, Santander, Teatro Politeama in Lecce.
G. Donizetti
Lucia di Lammermoor (Edgardo) – Pisa, Lucca, Livorno, Como, Pavia, Ravenna, New National Theatre Tokyo;
Roberto Devereux (Roberto Devereux) – Teatro Donizetti in Bergamo.
G. Bizet
Carmen (Don José) -
J. Massenet
Manon (Des Grieux) – Teatro Massimo in Palermo;
Werther (Werther) – Teatro Politeama in Lecce.
P. Mascagni
Cavalleria rusticana (Turiddu) – Taranto.
F. Cilea
Adriana Lecouvreur (Maurizio) – Klagenfurt.
J.F. Halévy
La Juive (Éléazar) – St. Petersburg.
A. Catalani
La Wally (Giuseppe Hagenbach) – Klagenfurt.
H. Berlioz
L’enfance du Christ (Speaker) – Megaron Theatre in Athen.
I. Stravinskij
The rake’s progress (Tom rakewell) – Piacenza, Ferrara, Ravenna.
L. van Beethoven
9th Symphony
A. Colla
Resurrexi (Uomo diretto a Emmaus) – world premiere with Fondazione Arena di Verona.
G. Paisiello
Nina, o sia la pazza per amore (Lindoro) – Teatro Politeama in Lecce
VALTER BORIN
Tenor
