Born in Mantua, Leonardo Cortellazzi trained at the La Scala Academy in Milan under Leyla Gencer. He is invited to perform on major Italian stages in a vast repertoire ranging from Monteverdi to contemporary works, including Mozart, Verdi and bel canto. He has sung the title role in Pacini's Don Giovanni at the Rossini Festival in Wilbad, Goffredo (Rinaldo) at La Fenice in Venice and at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Toffolo (Le Baruffe) and Jaquino (Fidelio) at La Fenice in Venice, Mastro Trabucco (La Forza del Destino) at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and Lord Percy (Anna Bolena) at the Sydney Opera House.More recently, he has performed the roles of Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni) in Tokyo and Venice, Lord Arturo Bucklaw (Lucia di Lammermoor) in Milan, Nagg (Endgame) in Budapest, Hamburg, Cologne and Dortmund, Il Principe (La Vita è sogno) in Venice, Venanzio (Il Nome della rosa) in Milan and Banquo (Macbeth) in Salzburg. During the 2025-2026 season, he will appear as Nagg in Bucharest and Oslo, the Captain (Wozzeck) in Venice and Ulisse (Inferno) in Rome, among other roles.At the Opéra national de Paris: Endgame (Nagg), 2022; The Tales of Hoffmann (Andrès, Cochenille, Pitichinaccio, Frantz), 2023; Adriana Lecouvreur (L'Abate di Chazeuil), 2024; Les Brigands (Carmagnola), 2024.

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