LIPPI Marcello,

baritone

Born in Genoa, he graduated from the Paganini Conservatory, from the Braga Institute of Teramo and in modern literature at the University of Genoa. His career began in 1988 with La notte di un nevrastenico and I due timidi by Nino Rota and immediately he debuts in Pesaro at the Rossini Opera Festival in La gazza ladra and La scala di seta. He later sang in Italy in the opera houses of Rome (Simon Boccanegra, La vedova allegra, Amica), Napoli (Carmina Burana), Genova (Le siège de Corinthe, Lucia di Lammermoor, Bohème, Carmen, Elisir d’amore, Simon Boccanegra, La vida breve, The prodigal son, Die Fledermaus, La fanciulla del west), Venezia (I Capuleti e i Montecchi), Palermo (Tosca, La vedova allegra, Orphée aux enfers, Cin-ci-là, Barbiere di Siviglia), Catania (Wienerblut, Der Schulmeister, das Land des Lächelns), Firenze (Il finanziere e il ciabattino, Pollicino), Milano (Adelaide di Borgogna), Torino (The consul, Hamlet, Elisir d’amore), Verona (La vedova allegra), Piacenza (Don Giovanni), Modena (Elisir d’amore), Ravenna (Elisir d’amore), Savona (Medea, Torvaldo e Dorliska), Fano (Madama Butterfly), Bari (Traviata, La Cecchina), Lecce (Werther, Tosca), Trieste (I Pagliacci, Der Zigeuner Baron, Die Fledermaus, Al cavallino bianco, La vedova allegra), Cagliari (Die Fledermaus- La vida breve), Rovigo (Werther, Mozart e Salieri, The tell-tale heart, Amica), Pisa (Il barbiere di Siviglia- La vedova allegra), Lucca (Il barbiere di Siviglia). Abroad he performed in Bruxelles (La Calisto), Berlin Staatsoper (Madama Butterfly, La Calisto), Wien (La Calisto), Atene (Il barbiere di Siviglia- Madama Butterfly), Dublin (Nozze di Figaro, Capuleti e Montecchi), Muenchen (Giulio Cesare in Egitto), Barcelona (La gazza ladra, La Calisto, Linda di Chamounix), Lyon (Nozze di Figaro, Calisto), Paris (Traviata, Nozze di Figaro), Dresden (Il re Teodoro in Venezia, Serse), Nice (Nozze di Figaro, The Tell-tale heart), Ludwigshafen (Il re Teodoro, Serse), Jerez de la Frontera (Nozze di Figaro), Granada (Nozze, Tosca), Montpellier (Calisto, Serse), Alicante (Traviata, Don Giovanni, Rigoletto, Bohème), Tel Aviv (Don Pasquale, Elisir d’amore, Traviata), Genève (Xerses, La purpura de la rosa), Festival Salzburg (La Calisto), Madrid (La purpura de la rosa, don Giovanni), Basel (Maria Stuarda), Toronto (Aida), Tokio (Traviata, Adriana Lecouvreur), Hong Kong (Traviata), Frankfurt (Madama Butterfly), Dubrovnik (Tosca), Cannes (Tosca), Ciudad de Mexico (La purpura de la rosa), Palma de Mallorca (Turandot e Fanciulla del west), Limoges (Tosca), Toulon (Linda di Chamounix) and dozens of other theatres in different nations of the world. From 2004 to 2009 he held the position of Artistic Director and Superintendent of the Theatre Sociale di Rovigo. In 2010 he was director of the Italian Opera Festival in London. From 2011 to 2016 he was artistic director of the Fondazione Teatro Verdi in Pisa.Since 2015 he has been directing important operatic shows all over the world: he has just finished the Puccini’s Trittico in Osaka (Japan), Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana, Traviata by Verdi, Don Giovanni in Pafos, Tosca, Rigoletto, Jolantha and Aleko in Banska Bistrica and will soon be engaged in other important foreign and Italian productions such as Otello, Carmen and Trovatore. He also directed modern works such as Salvo d’Acquisto at Verdi Theater in Pisa and Baroque as the Flaminio with the Maggio Fiorentino Formation. Lecturer in opera singing at the conservatory in La Spezia, Udine, Alessandria, Ferrara, and Rovigo. He taught Theatre Management at the Accademia del Teatro alla Scala in Milan. He has done Master Class in various parts of the world, for example Kiev (Ciaikovski academy), Shanghai, Chengdu, Osaka, Saint Petersburg, Saint Josè de Costa Rica and many other cities.