Roberto Tagliavini

Roberto Tagliavini was born in Parma. Roles include Selim (Il turco in Italia), Mustafà (L’italiana in Algeri), Alidoro (La Cenerentola), Fernando (La gazza ladra), Lord Sidney (Il viaggio a Reims), Maometto (Maometto II), Elmiro (Otello), Gouverneur (Le Comte Ory), Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro), Rodolfo (La sonnambula), Oroveso (Norma), Giorgio (I puritani), Raimondo (Lucia di Lammermoor), Banco (Macbeth), the title role in Attila, Zaccaria (Nabucco), Pagano (I Lombardi alla prima crociata), Des Grieux (Manon), Escamillo (Carmen), Frère Laurent (Roméo et Juliette) and the Four Villains (Les Contes d’Hoffmann). He has performed at houses including the Metropolitan Opera, La Scala, Milan, Paris Opera, Teatro Real, Madrid, Salzburg Festival, Liceu, Barcelona, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Los Angeles Opera, Dutch National Opera, the Concertgebouw, Vienna State Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper and Zurich Opera, among others. Recent highlights include I Capuleti e i Montecchi (Salzburg Festival), La sonnambula, Carmen and La Cenerentola (Vienna State Opera), Maometto II (Naples), Il barbiere di Siviglia, Macbeth and Norma (Bayerische Staatsoper) and Nabucco (Berlin). Engagements for 2024/25 include I puritani at Paris Opera, Il trovatore and Don Carlo in Vienna, La Cenerentola in Munich and Les Vêpres siciliennes at Deutsche Oper Berlin.