AMERICAN LYRIC SINGING COMPETITION

Critically acclaimed for his stage presence and glorious basso cantabile voice, Ildebrando D'Arcangelo has made a name for himself in the roles of Figaro, Count Almaviva, Leporello, and Mozart's Don Giovanni. In recent years, he has added numerous important Verdi roles to his repertoire, notably Attila, Fiesco in Simon Boccanegra, and Banco in Macbeth, as well as Mefistofele in Gounod's Faust and Berlioz's La damnation de Faust.

D'Arcangelo's 2025/26 season engagements include Jean Procida in Les vêpres siciliennes and Sir Giorgio Valton in I puritani at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Escamillo in Carmen at the Zurich Opera, and the title role in Le nozze di Figaro in a concert with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. Recent appearances include Oroveso in Norma for the Vienna State Opera, Count Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, the title role of Attila at the Marseille Opera, and Ernani in concert with the Munich Radio Symphony Orchestra.

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D'Arcangelo's career has taken him to many of the world's leading opera houses, including the Vienna and Berlin State Operas, the Royal Ballet and the Opéra, the Paris Opera, Teatro alla Scala in Milan, the Teatro Real in Madrid, and the Metropolitan Opera. He made his debut at the Salzburg Festival in 1996 as Mozart's Figaro, returning to Leporello and Don Giovanni. Conductors he has collaborated with include Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Muti, Myung-Whun Chung, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Bernard Haitink, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Tugan Sokhiev, Sir Antonio Pappano, and Sir Georg Solti.

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D'Arcangelo won an award at the Toti Dal Monte International Singing Competition in Treviso in 1989 and again in 1991. In addition to the composers mentioned above, his vast repertoire also includes works by Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, Handel, Bizet, Boito, and Stravinsky. Some of his finest performances have been released on DVD by labels such as Deutsche Grammophon, Decca, and Virgin Records.