This season, American tenor Frank Porretta makes his debut at the NCPA in China as the title role in
Otello. He recently appeared at the Cincinnati Opera as Canio in
I Pagliacci and the the Washington National Opera as Cavaradossi in
Tosca and the Austin Lyric Opera as Calaf in
Turandot.
Mr. Porretta recently returned to the Deutsche Oper Berlin in
Otello, which he also sang for his European debut in 2002 at the Teatro Maestranza in Seville. He has since appeared at the Berliner Staatsoper, Staatsoper Hamburg, Sächsische Staatsoper (Dresden), Bayerische Staatsoper, Wiener Staatsoper, Opéra National de Paris, L’Opera de Nice, L'Opera de Montpellier, Teatro Real (Madrid), Teatro Regio di Torino, Teatro Massimo in Palermo and Opera Australia. In North America, he has appeared with the Metropolitan Opera, Canadian Opera Company, Seattle Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, San Diego Opera, Austin Lyric Opera, and Tulsa Opera, and at the Caramoor Festival and the Hollywood Bowl. ...
read full bioThis season, American tenor Frank Porretta makes his debut at the NCPA in China as the title role in
Otello. He recently appeared at the Cincinnati Opera as Canio in
I Pagliacci and the the Washington National Opera as Cavaradossi in
Tosca and the Austin Lyric Opera as Calaf in
Turandot.
Mr. Porretta recently returned to the Deutsche Oper Berlin in
Otello, which he also sang for his European debut in 2002 at the Teatro Maestranza in Seville. He has since appeared at the Berliner Staatsoper, Staatsoper Hamburg, Sächsische Staatsoper (Dresden), Bayerische Staatsoper, Wiener Staatsoper, Opéra National de Paris, L’Opera de Nice, L'Opera de Montpellier, Teatro Real (Madrid), Teatro Regio di Torino, Teatro Massimo in Palermo and Opera Australia. In North America, he has appeared with the Metropolitan Opera, Canadian Opera Company, Seattle Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, San Diego Opera, Austin Lyric Opera, and Tulsa Opera, and at the Caramoor Festival and the Hollywood Bowl.
Mr. Porretta’s vast repertoire includes the title roles in
Don Carlos, Samson et Dalilah, Otello and
Andrea Chenier, Manrico in
Il Trovatore, Don Alvaro in
La Forza del Destino, Radames in
Aida, the Duke in
Rigoletto, Riccardo in
Un Ballo in Maschera, Pollione in
Norma, Dick Johnson in
La Fanciulla del West, Calaf in
Turandot, Cavaradossi in
Tosca, Luigi in
Il Tabarro, Turiddu in
Cavalleria Rusticana, Canio in
I Pagliacci, and Don Jose in
Carmen.
A native of New York, Mr. Porretta received his musical training at the Juilliard School of Music.
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