ADAMI, FILIPPO

The tenor Filippo Adami was born in Fiesole and studied at the Cherubini Conservatorio in Florence, going on to appear in opera houses throughout Italy, with roles that included Don Basilio in Le nozze di Figaro, and in Tutino's Pinocchio, Salieri's Piccola Arlecchinata, Mozart's Bastien und Bastienne and Stravinsky's Pulcinella. He made his début as Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi in 2003 and as Dorvil in La scala di seta. He studied with Alberto Zedda at the Accademia Rossiniana and made his début as Cavaliere Belfiore in Il viaggio a Reims at the Pesaro Rossini Opera Festival. For his performance as Nemorino in Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore, he was awarded the As.Li.Co. Prize. He also appeared as Guglielmo in Elisabetta regina d'Inghilterra in Pesaro. In 2005 he made a guest appearance at La Fenice in Venice in La finta semplice. Other performances have included participation in Sartorio's Orfeo at the La Coruna Mozart Festival under Alberto Zedda, Handel's Sosarme, re di Media under Alan Curtis and, in Bilbao, Handel's Rodelinda, with Coccia's Arrighetto in Pesaro and Scarlatti's Giardino di Rose with the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome. As a specialist Rossinian tenor, he sang the rôles of Count Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia with the Turin Teatro Regio and the Genoa Teatro Carlo Felice, Osiride in Mosè in Egitto (Rome Teatro dell’Opera and at the Rossini in Wildbad Festival) and Don Narciso in Il turco in Italia (in Pesaro). He also appeared in Mozart's Don Giovanni (Carrara), Il re pastore (Festival Mozart in La Coruña), and Galuppi’s L'Olimpiade (Teatro la Fenice, conducted by Andrea Marcon).

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MEYERBEER: Semiramide	8.660205-06
ROSSINI, G.: Turco in Italia (Il) (Rossini Opera Festival, 2007) (NTSC)	2.110259
ROSSINI: Mose in Egitto (1819 Naples version)	8.660220-21