Omar Montanari

 
Baritone, born in Riccione, he gets his degree in singing at the Rossini Conservatory in Pesaro under Luisa Macnez, attending then masterclasses and courses with such distinguished artists as: William Matteuzzi, Michael Aspinall, Alberto Zedda, Raina Kabaivanska and Renato Bruson.

Winner of the 59th Concorso Europeo per Giovani Cantanti Lirici “A. Belli” in Spoleto, in 2000 he makes his debut as Aeneas in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas at Auditorium Pedrotti di Pesaro.

He's immediately engaged for: Puccini's Gianni Schicchi (Marco) in Cagli; Cimarosa's Il Matrimonio Segreto (Geronimo and Conte Robinson) at Teatro Arriaga in Bilbao and in Dordrecht, where he also sings Rossini's Barbiere di Siviglia (Don Bartolo); Rossini's Il Viaggio a Reims (Trombonok) at Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro (Festival Giovane della XXIII edizione).

This was followed by: Fioravanti's Le Cantatrici Villane (Don Marco) in Lecce; Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro (Figaro) in Spoleto and Tokyo (Japan Tour 2004 of Teatro Lirico Sperimentale ‘A.Belli’ Spoleto); Gnecco's La Prova di un’Opera Seria (Poeta Pasticci) in Kyoto; Puccini's La Bohème (Schaunard) in Spoleto; Rossini's L’Italiana in Algeri (Haly) in Spoleto, Miskolci and Kosice; Coccia's Arrighetto (Conte Ludovico) at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro and in Novara; Cornaglia's Una partita a scacchi (Renato) in Alessandria; Maderna's Satyricon (Eumolpo) in Rome and L’Aquila; Mozart's Don Giovanni (Leporello) in Bilbao; Don Pasquale (Malatesta) at Teatro della Fortuna in Fano; Scarlatti's La Dirindina (Don Carissimo) in Spoleto; Elisir d’Amore (Dulcamara) in Como; Rossini's Barbiere di Siviglia (Don Bartolo) in Tokyo, opposite Antonino Siragusa and Sonia Ganassi, at Teatro Vittorio Emanuele in Messina and in Doha; Scarlatti's La Dirindina and Albinoni's Pimpinone (title role) in Spoleto; Mozart's Così fan tutte (Don Alfonso) in Brescia, Cremona, Como and Pavia.

He has worked, among others, with such distinguished conductors as: Giuliano Carella, Leopold Hager, Pietro Rizzo, Marcello Rota, Marcello Panni, Diego Fasolis, Carlo Palleschi, and directed by prestigeous names as: Dario Fo, Beppe de Tommasi, Ezio Toffolutti, Emilio Sagi, Giovanni Scandella, Giorgio Pressburger, Rosetta Cucchi, Ronerto Recchia, Massimo Ranieri.

Among his recent engagements: La Cenerentola (Dandini) in Spoleto, Tokyo, Osaka, Hamamatsu, Nagoya, opposite Antonino Siragusa and Carmen Oprisanu, and for Fondazione Tercas directed by Massimo Ranieri in Atri, Fermo and Ortona; Rossini's Il Viaggio a Reims (Don Alvaro) in Piacenza and (as Trombonok) Trento with Fondazione Toscanini and directed by Rosetta Cucchi; Cimarosa's Il Matrimonio Segreto (Conte Robinson) in Spoleto and (as Geronimo) in Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir; La Cecchina ossia la buona figliola in Sassari directed by Francesco Bellotto, Werther (Johann) at Teatro Regio in Parma conducted by Michel Plasson, Italiana in Algeri (Haly) at Teatro Regio in Turin.

Among his future engagements: Don Pasquale (Malatesta) at Teatro Coccia in Novara; Cenerentola (Don Magnifico) for AsLiCo; I due Figaro (Plagio) under M° Riccardo Muti directed by Emilio Sagi at the Salzburg Festival, Ravenna Festival and Madrid; Il barbiere di Siviglia (Bartolo) at Teatro La Fenice in Venice; La Bohème (Schaunard) at the Opéra de Toulon under M° Giuliano Carella; Carmen (Dancairo) at Teatro Regio in Turin conducted by Gianandrea Noseda and directed by Calixto Bieito.

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Georges Bizet
Carmen (Dancairo)

Domenico Cimarosa
Il Matrimonio Segreto (Conte Robinson, Geronimo)

Carlo Coccia
Arrighetto (Conte Ludovico)

Pietro Abbà Cornaglia
Una partita a scacchi (Renato)

Gaetano Donizetti
L'elisir d'amore (Belcore, Dulcamara)
Don Pasquale (Malatesta)

Valerio Fioravanti
Le cantatrici villane (Don Marco)

Francesco Gnecco
La prova di un'opera seria (Poeta Pasticci)

Bruno Maderna
Satyricon (Eumolpus)

Jules Massenet
Werther (Albert, Johann)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Le Nozze di Figaro (Figaro)
Don Giovanni (Leporello, Masetto)
Così fan tutte (Guglielmo, Don Alfonso)

Giacomo Puccini
Gianni Schicchi (Marco)
La Bohème (Schaunard)
Manon Lescaut (Lescaut)

Henry Purcell
Dido and Aeneas (Aeneas)

Gioachino Rossini
Il barbiere di Siviglia (Don Bartolo)
Il viaggio a Reims (Barone di Trombonok, Don Alvaro)
L'Italiana in Algeri (Taddeo, Haly)
La Cenerentola (Dandini, Don Magnifico, Alidoro)
La Gazzetta (Don Pomponio)
Le Comte Ory (Raimbaud)

Domenico Scarlatti
La Dirindina (Don Carissimo)

Tommaso Albinoni
Il Pimpinone

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