The Italian Cultural Institute of Montreal in cooperation with the West Island Italian Association is pleased to present the internationally acclaimed Italian-Canadian tenor Manrico Tedeschi for an evening of Italian music, romantic Neapolitan songs and famous opera arias. Among the other guests there is also Makiko Awazu.
July 5 – 7:30pm
Stewart Park
Chemin du Bord-du-Lac, Pointe-Claire, QC
Free Admission
For more info:
http://www.pointe-claire.ca/en/calendar/manrico-tedeschi-and-friends-italy-sings-canta-italia/
https://iicmontreal.esteri.it/iic_montreal/resource/doc/2017/06/canta_italia_manrico.pdf
Manrico Tedeschi was born in Montreal of Italian parents and his distinguished career of almost 20 years has led him to such famed opera houses as La Scala, Arena di Verona, Berlin Staatsoper, Hungarian State Opera, La Fenice, Regio di Parma, Opéra Marseilles, Regio in Turin, Massimo Bellini in Catania, Teatro Massimo in Palermo, the Berlin Philharmonie and the Munich Gasteig among others. He has been privileged to have worked with such distinguished artists as Fiorenza Cossotto, Piero Cappuccilli, Carlo Bergonzi, Elena Obratzova, Giuseppe Giacomini, Aprile Millo, Grace Bumbry, Rolando Panerai, Dimitri Hvorotovsky, Cecilia Bartoli, Leo Nucci and Giorgio Zancanaro. In 2000 he sang in Madame Butterfly with Orchestra London conducted by Mario Bernardi, in Verdi Requiem with La Société Philharmonique de Montreal, in Carmen at Cork Opera, in Aida with Operama in Sydney. In 2001 he performed in Canberra in Australia, in Fanciulla del West in Lucca, Pisa, Bergamo, Ascoli, Livorno, in Samson et Dalila at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genova. In 2002 he sang in Adriana Lecouvreur at Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania, in Tosca in Tokyo and Yokohama (tours with Teatro Comunale di Bologna) where he alternated with José Cura, in Il Giuramento by Mercadante at Wexford Festival in Ireland.
In 2003 he made his debut in Otello at Opera Tampa. With the New Jersey State Opera he accomplished the feat of singing both Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci in the same evening with great success. In 2004 he reprised his Otello for the Shanghai Opera in a La Fenice production which is seen on TV by 50 million Chinese. Fanciulla del West follows with Opera Orchestra New York at Carnegie Hall. In Prague, he sang Cavalleria Rusticana with Eva Urbanova and a concert at the Spanish Hall for the Czech president. He debuted in the role of Jacopo in Verdi’s I Due Foscari with Lyric Opera in Dublin. In 2005, he appeared as Otello at Teatro Sao Carlos in Lisbon and Verdi concerts with the Copenhagen Philharmonic in Denmark. In 2006 he performed Pagliacci at The Shanghai Opera. He sang Don Alvaro in Forza del Destino with the Lithuanian Opera in Vilnius. Then he was Otello at the Festival Eurama in Tivoli, Italy. He performed Radames in Aida at the Florida Grand Opera. In 2007 he performed the Verdi Requiem at Carnegie Hall for the 50th anniversary of the death of Toscanini. In 2008 he sang the title role of Otello in Opera di Roma with Riccardo Muti conducting with great success.