Born in Naples, Carlo Lepore studied with Paolo Montarsolo, Otto Edelman, Carlo Bergonzi, Alberto Zedda, Alessandra Gonzaga... He has sung the roles of Mustafà (L'Italienne à Alger), Selim (The Turk in Italy), Basilio and Bartolo (The Barber of Seville), Don Magnifico (La Cenerentola), Pharao (Moses and Pharaoh), Don Profondo (Le Voyage à Reims), Ginardo (Matilde di Shabran), Leporello (Don Giovanni), Don Alfonso (Così fan tutte), Bartolo (The Marriage of Figaro), Blansac (La Scala di seta), in the most important international opera houses (La Scala, Milan, La Fenice, Venice, Rome Opera, Semperoper, Dresden, Cologne Opera, Opéra Royal de Wallonie, Flanders Opera, Teatro Real, Madrid, Royal Opera House, London, Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires, Zurich Opera...). ). He is a regular guest at the Rossini Festival in Pesaro. His repertoire also includes the roles of Colline (La Bohème), Rodolfo (La Somnambule), Dulcamara (L'Élixir d'amour), Seneca (Le Couronnement de Poppée) and several Baroque operas. He has sung Bartolo (The Barber of Seville) in Montreal, Verona, Bordeaux and Berlin, the title role of Falstaff in Parma, Bari and Turin, the title role of Gianni Schicchi in Turin, Mustafà and Geronte di Ravoir (Manon Lescaut) in Milan, the title role of Don Pasquale in Verona and Moscow, Sir Tobia Mill (La Cambiale di matrimonio) in Pesaro and, more recently, Philippe II (Don Carlo) in Cremona, Brescia and Como, Gianni Schicchi in Rome, Giorgio Talbot (Maria Stuarda) in Naples, Oroveso (Norma) in Sofia and Raimundo (Lucia di Lammermoor) in Trieste. He plays Don Magnifico in the film Cenerentola, una favola in diretta, directed by Carlo Verdone and conducted by Gian Luigi Gelmetti.At the Opéra national de Paris: The Barber of Seville (Bartolo), 2014, 2020, 2022; Gianni Schicchi (title role), 2018; L'Élixir d'amour (Dulcamara), 2021; La Cenerentola (Don Magnifico), 2022

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