Paolo Gavanelli

Paolo Gavanelli began establishing himself as a major international star operatic baritone before 1990. He is especially valued as a dramatic baritone in Verdi roles. He had a series of impressive debuts to start his career. After his initial performance at Brescia (where he sang Leporello in Mozart's Don Giovanni in 1985) within the next five years he made first appearances at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York (as Count de Luna in Il trovatore), at Teatro alla Scala in Milan (as Giorgio Germont in La traviata), at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich (as Renato in Un Bal...