Ildebrando D'Arcangelo

The music of Mozart has become the core of bass-baritone's Ildebrando d'Arcangelo repertoire since winning the Toti dal Monte International Competition for Singers in 1989 as Masetto in Don Giovanni, and again in 1991 as Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte. Critics have praised not only his voice, but his acting skills as well, as he's expanded his roles into operas and choral works by Rossini, Donizetti, Gounod, Handel, Stravinsky, Verdi, and beyond. D'Arcangelo began piano lessons at six, but did not begin singing until a teenager, when his organist father encouraged him to join...