About
Born in Florence, the tenor Anicio Zorzi Giustiniani, after playing violin for many years, began studying singing at the Luigi Cherubini’s Conservatory of Florence, subsequently improving his vocal technique with the tenor Fernando Cordeiro Opa. He had his debut at a very young age in 2001 as soloist in Charpentier’s Te Deum at the Teatro della Pergola in Florence. He won the 6th Sacred Music International Competition in Rome and in 39th edition of the International Singing Competition Toti Dal Monte in Treviso for the main male role of the opera La vera costanza by F.J.Haydn. He debuted this opera in the theatres of Madrid, Treviso, Reggio Emilia and Liège.
Recent engagements include: Hasse’s Artaserse, title-role, Festival della Valle d’Itria with Corrado Rovaris; Così fan Tutte, Ferrando, in La Fenice in Venice; La finta giardiniera, Belfiore, in Toulon with Andreas Speringand Vincent Boussard; Bellini’s Capuleti e Montecchi, Romeo (tenor version), in Oman with TeatroFilarmonicoofVerona;under Riccardo Muti’s baton Mozart’s Betulia Liberata (Ozìa) at the Salzburg Festival and in Ravenna and Mercadante’s I Due Figaro (Il Conte Almaviva) in Madrid Teatro Real, Salzburg, Ravenna Festival and at the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires; Lehar’s Die lustige Witwe, Camille de Rossillon, at the Teatro Filarmonico di Verona. in Teatro La Fenice of Venice Don Giovanni (Don Ottavio) with Manacorda/Michieletto and Idomeneo (Idamante); L’Infedeltà delusa with Andreas Spering in Koeln; Stravinsky’s Pulcinella at the new Opera House in Florence; Handel’s Alcina in Bremen with Ottavio Dantone…
Recently he appearedin the following roles: title role in Porpora’s Mitridate at Teatro la Fenice of Venice, in Valladolid and at the Mozart Festival of Rovereto, staged by M. Gasparon; Cavalier Belfiore in Rossini’s Il viaggio a Reims at the Teatro Pergolesi in Jesi, staged by Emilio Sagi; Thybalt in Gounod’s Romeo et Juliette in Verona, staged by Michieletto; Haydn’s La Vera Costanza, Il Conte Errico, in Liège under the baton of JesúsLópez-Cobos; Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Conte di Almaviva, and Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, Tamino, in the Theatre of Sankt Gallen, Switzerland; Petite Messe Solennelle in Teatro Comunale of Florence; Scarlatti’s Tigrane in Opéra de Nice; title role in Handel’s Giove in Argo, at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna; Morlacchi’s Tebaldo e Isolina, Boemondo, in BadWildbad.
He recordedfor Deutsche Grammophon :Haendel’s Ezio, conducted by Alan Curtis; Emi Virgin Haendel’s Berenice, Giove in Argo and Ariodante, conducted by Alan Curtis; Glossa Monteverdi’s Il ritorno di Ulisse in patria, titlerole, conducted by Claudio Cavina and Scarlatti’s Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo conducted by Fabio Biondi, Bongiovanni Moneta’s Il Conte Policronio), HyperionCesti’s Le Disgrazie d’Amore, Ducale music Mercadante’s I due Figaro, conducted by Riccardo Muti.
Highlights for the season 2015-2016 and beyond include: Lucrezia Borgia(Gennaro) in SanktGallen conducted by Pietro Rizzo; Die Zauberfloete (Tamino) in Teatro La Fenice of Venice; Mozart’s Idomeneo in Teatro La Fenice of Venice; Gluck’s Alceste, Evandre, european tour with René Jacobs; Monteverdi’s Orfeo in Losanna with Ottavio Dantone; Vedova Allegra, Camille de Rossillon, in Bari, Teatro Petruzzelli; Falstaff in Chicago with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Maestro Riccardo Muti; Die Zauberfloete (Tamino) in Liège, Opera Royale de Wallonie …