Roberto Aronica

Roberto Aronica was born in Civitavecchia, near Rome, in 1969. He studied with Carlo Bergonzi and completed his studies at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena. He made his professional debut as the Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto at the Teatro Municipal in Santiago de Chile.

He has appeared at leading opera houses including La Scala in Milan, the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Opéra Bastille in Paris, the Royal Opera House in London, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, the Vienna State Opera, Opernhaus Zürich, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Bavarian State Opera, San Francisco Opera and Los Angeles Opera, as well as with the Japan Opera Foundation in Tokyo.

His roles have included Manrico in Il trovatore at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna and the title role in Don Carlo at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. He has also sung in Madama Butterfly at the Liceu, Un ballo in maschera in Beijing, I masnadieri in Parma and La forza del destino in Bilbao. In 2014 he made his debut in Turandot in Turin; his appearances that year also included Norma in Cagliari, Carmen in Shenzhen, Madama Butterfly in Verona, La forza del destino in Parma and Attila in Bilbao.