Biography

Celebrated for a velvety beauty of tone and elegant musicality as well as for his excellent acting, Leonardo Caimi has established himself as one of the most acclaimed tenors of his generation, singing at prestigious venues and festivals such as the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Teatro alla Scala, the Teatro Real in Madrid, the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, and the Salzburg Festival, amongst others.

Highlights of the Italian tenor's career include: Don Carlo (Don Carlo) and Carmen (Don José) at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin; Turandot (Calaf) and Carmen (Don Josè) in Leipzig for 4 seasons; Madama Butterfly (Pinkerton) and La Bohème (Rodolfo) for 6 seasons at Festival Puccini of Torre del Lago; Madama Butterfly (Pinkerton) in Seoul; Madama Butterfly (Pinkerton) and Cavalleria Rusticana (Turiddu) at La Monnaie in Brussels; Adriana Lecouvreur (Maurizio di Sassonia) at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires; Le villi (Roberto) for RTVE at the Teatro Monumental in Madrid; Carmen (Don José) at the Teatro Real in Madrid; Simon Boccanegra (Adorno) at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples; Turandot ( Calaf) and Werther (Werther) at the Wielki Opera in Warsaw for 3 seasons; A Masked Ball (Riccardo) at the Municipal Theater in Rio de Janeiro and in new production in Darmstadt; Tosca (Cavaradossi) at the Municipal Theater in Santiago de Chile and at the Frankfurt Opera; La rondine (Ruggero) at the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago, La bohème (Rodolfo) and Le Villi (Roberto) for the open season at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino.

The debut in the role of Des Grieux in Massenet's Manon at the Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv got a great success and he comes back in Tel Aviv for Aida (Radames), Carmen (Don Josè) and Il Trovatore (Manrico).

Other highlights: the first performance in modern times of the opera Palla de 'Mozzi by G. Marinuzzi for the open season at the Teatro Lirico in Cagliari; his debut at the Royal Opera House-Covent Garden as Don Josè in Carmen; Les Vepres Siciliannes (Henri) in Frankfurt, Bonn, Palermo and at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Monaco; the world premiere of Adriana Lecouvreur (Maurizio) at La Monnaie in Brussels.

After the first lockdown for the covid-19 pandemic, he was back in the scene with the role of Werther in Warsaw; with a gala concert in Moscow; Alfredo in La Traviata, Beethoven's Symphony n ° 9, Danilo in La Vedova Allegra and Mozart's Requiem at the Lirico in Cagliari; Manon Lescaut (Des Grieux) in Plovdiv; Calaf in Turandot at the Opernfestspiele St. Margarethen.

About highlights of the last two seasons, he performed in the main roles for the open season in Warsaw (Werther), Bonn (Don Carlo), WNO-Cardiff (Madama Butterfly), Palermo (Les Vepres Siciliennes), Israeli Opera-Tel Aviv (Aida).

Manon Lescaut (Des Grieux) in Cagliari, Turandot (Calaf) in Cologne, and Helsinki, Masked Ball (Riccardo) in Bonn, Tosca (Cavaradossi) at Festival of Lerici, Gala Concert in Dortmund, Carmen (Don Josè) in Prague, La Rondine (Ruggero) at the Kodály Center in Pecs, Il Trovatore (Manrico) in Tel Aviv, La Ciociara (Michele) by Marco Tutino at the Wexford Festival, Puccini’s Messa di Gloria,in Padova with I Solisti Veneti.

The 2024 begins with the success in La Bohème (Rodolfo) at the ROH in London, thanks to which he will return in the autumn of the same year, for the season opening, with Les contes d'Hoffmann in the title role and continues with Il Tabarro (Luigi) at the WNO in Cardiff, Carmen (Don Josè) at the Colòn theater in Buenos Aires, Il Trovatore (Manrico) new production at the Braunschweig Summer Festival, Carmen (Don Josè) season opening in Prague.

About present and some of future engagements: Les contes d'Hoffmann (Hoffmann) for the opening of the 24/25 season at the ROH in London; Carmen (Don Josè) in Prague; Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly) in Catania; the world premiere of Pepita Jiménez by D. Luis de Vargas for Teatro de la Zarzuela, Madrid.

About curiosity: Caimi made his debut in a Hollywood movie production, with the role of the tenor Brusoni in “Ferrari”, movie by Michael Mann.

Mr. Caimi has worked with many of the world’s most esteemed conductors and directors, including R. Muti, L. Maazel, G. Gelmetti, D. Oren, C. Rizzi, E. Pidò, S. Ranzani, Miguel Ángel Gómez-Martínez, Jean-Claude Cadadesus, Alain Lombard, M. Stefanelli, E. Queler, R. Brignoli; and directors F. Zeffirelli, R. Lepage, S. Vizioli, W. Pagliaro and M. Scaparro, L. Mariani, M. Martone, D. Michieletto, W. Decker, and Ettore Scola. He has a diploma in voice from the Conservatorio «A. Corelli» di Messina and diploma in clarinet from the Conservatorio «F. Torrefranca» di Vibo Valentia, where he also studied composition. Leonardo Caimi also obtained a degree with highest honors in Philosophy at the Università degli Studi di Messina.

November 2024

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