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lepore.jpgCarlo Lepore enjoys a successful career that brought him to perform on the stage of the most important European theatrical institutions and festivals. He works with such conductors as Riccardo Muti, Maurizio Benini, Bruno Campanella, Daniele Gatti, Alberto Zedda, Georges Prêtre, Alan Curtis, Roberto Rizzi Brignoli, Zoltán Peskó, Claudio Scimone, Peter Maag; directors like Luca Ronconi, Pier Luigi Pizzi, Jérôme Savary, Werner Herzog.
Highlights of his performances include the title role in Donizetti’s Don Pasquale, Don Basilio in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte, Don Magnifico in La Cenerentola, Leporello in Don Giovanni, the title role in Don Quichotte by Solci, Conte Robinson in Il matrimonio segreto, Maestro in Le convenienze e inconvenienze teatrali, Gianpaolo Lasagna in Cimarosa’s Le astuzie femminili, as well as Colline in La Bohème.
Carlo Lepore enjoys an intense activity in the baroque repertory in Italy and abroad. He has performed operas by Monteverdi (L’Orfeo), Peri (Euridice, Plutone), Händel (Acis and Galatea, Polifemo; Giulio Cesare, Achille; Orlando, Zoroastro), Vivaldi (La Senna festeggiante), Vitali (Aretusa), Ferrari (Sansone), Cavalieri (Gli amori di Apollo e Dafne), Sartorio (L'Orfeo), Scarlatti (La Dirindina), Martini (L’impresario delle Canarie), Tritto (Il convitato di pietra, Pulcinella).
On the concert side, he sang at the Settimana Musicale Senese (Eumelio by Agazzari), Macerata Opera Festival (Le tre ore d'agonia and Giordani’s Passio), Berlin Konzerthaus with the ensemble Febi Armonici, Innsbruck Festival, Ravenna Festival, Autunno Musicale of the Teatro San Carlo di Napoli (Il divertimento dei Numi by Paisiello), Terme di Caracalla (Chicester Psalms by Bernstein, Daniel Oren conductor). He also sang Schubert’s Winterreise, as well as Lieder by Wagner and Un canzoniere italiano by Wolf-Ferrari at the Wexford Opera Festival.
His discography includes Nina, o sia la pazza per amore by Paisiello with Riccardo Muti (Ricordi), Rossini’s operas Matilde di Shabran (Decca) and Bianca e Falliero (Dynamic); La grotta di Trofonio by Salieri with Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques (Ambroisie), Radamisto by Händel (Virgin).
Born in Naples Carlo Lepore lives in Rome, where he studied singing under the guidance of Alessandra Gonzaga and graduated at the University in Law. He attended the specializing courses at the Wiener Kammeroper with Edelman and Bernet (Mozart repertoire), at the Accademia Chigiana di Siena with Bergonzi and Alberti, at the Accademia Lirica Mantovana under the guidance of Paolo Montarsolo and at the Accademia Rossiniana di Pesaro with Alberto Zedda.