Born in Parma, Roberto Tagliavini studied singing with baritone Romano Franceschetto. He performs regularly at leading international theaters, with a repertoire ranging from Rossini, Mozart, Bellini and Donizetti to the French and Verdian repertoires. His favorite roles include Alidoro (La Cenerentola), Fernando (La Pie voleuse), Lord Sidney (Le Voyage à Reims), Maometto (Maometto II), Moses (Moses and Pharaoh), the Governor (Count Ory), the Count and Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), Leporello (Don Giovanni) Rodolfo (La Somnambula), Oroveso (Norma), Giorgio (The Puritans), Raimondo (Lucia di Lammermoor), Philippe II (Don Carlo), Attila (title role), Zaccaria (Nabucco), Pagano (I Lombardi), Silva (Ernani) Des Grieux (Manon), Escamillo (Carmen), Frère Laurent (Roméo et Juliette), Lindorf, Miracle, Coppelius and Dapertutto (Les Contes d'Hoffmann), Mephistopheles (Faust), as well as Mozart, Donizetti and Verdi Requiems and Rossini's Stabat Mater. He has performed at La Scala, Milan, Opéra national de Paris, Teatro Real, Madrid, Salzburg Festival, Metropolitan Opera, New York, Accademia Nazionale Santa Cecilia, Rome, Royal Opera House, London, Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Los Angeles Opera, Mariinsky Theatre St. Petersburg, Amsterdam National Opera, Vienna Staatsoper, Bayerische Staatsoper Munich, Zurich Opera, Rossini Opera Festival Pesaro. In the 2024-2025 season, his roles include Banco (Macbeth) and Philippe II at the Vienna Staatsoper, Giorgio Talbot (Maria Stuarda) at Madrid's Teatro Real, Ferrando (Le Trouvère) at London's Royal Opera House, Alidoro at Munich's Bayerische Staatsoper and Zaccaria at the Arena di Verona.At the Opéra national de Paris: Otello (Montano), 2011; Le Trouvère (Ferrando), 2016, 2023; Carmen (Escamillo), 2017, 2019; La Cenerentola (Alidoro), 2017; Les Contes d'Hoffmann (Capitaine Dapertutto, Coppélius, Docteur Miracle, Lindorf), 2016; La Bohème (Colline), 2017; Manon (Le Comte des Grieux), 2020

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