Francesco Meli

Awarded of the Cross of Saint George, Francesco Meli is one of the world's most charming and sought-after tenors.

He made his debut at a very young age in Macbeth, Petite Messe Solennelle and Puccini's Messa di Gloria at the Festival dei due Mondi di Spoleto, beginning an amazing career in the Belcanto and Rossini repertoire. He now has a twenty-two year career behind him, twenty years of collaboration with the Teatro alla Scala where he made his debut at only 23 years of age in Les Dialogues des Carmelites conducted by Maestro Riccardo Muti, and returned there in the following years for Otello, Idomeneo, Don Giovanni, Maria Stuarda, Der Rosenkavalier, Carmen, Giovanna d'Arco, I due Foscari, Don Carlo, La traviata, Ernani, Tosca, Il Trovatore, Aida, L'elisir d'amore, Macbeth, Un ballo in maschera, Don Carlo.
Francesco Meli has over fifty roles in the repertoire sung in the most important Italian, European and international theatres and working with the world's leading conductors, including Riccardo Chailly, Myung-Whun Chung, Daniele Gatti, Fabio Luisi, Riccardo Muti, Christian Thielemann, Gianandrea Noseda, Antonio Pappano, Riccardo Frizza, Daniele Rustioni, Yuri Temirkanov.

He is featured on numerous DVDs published by Deutsche Grammophon, Unitel and Opus Arte.

During the 2023 season, he took part in three productions at the Teatro del Maggio (Don Carlo, La traviata and Carmen), before returning to the Royal Opera House to sing the role of Radamès in Aida once again, and touring to Tokyo with La traviata, a role he also performs at the Arena di Verona Festival.
Following the opening of the 2023/2024 season at La Scala in Don Carlo, Francesco Meli sang Un ballo in maschera at the Palau de Les Arts in Valencia, Il corsaro at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, L’elisir d’amore at the Regio in Parma, Simon Boccanegra at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, and made his debut in Attila in Tokyo with Maestro Muti.

He opened the 2024/2025 season at the Teatro La Fenice, making his debut in Otello, before going on to perform La Traviata and Carmen at his home theatre, Tosca once again at La Scala and at the San Carlo in Naples, a recital at the Frankfurt Opera, and I Lombardi alla Prima Crociata and Simon Boccanegra at the Real in Madrid.

This season: Nabucco at La Scala in Milan, Simon Boccanegra at the Vienna State Opera and at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Opera Night with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Maestro Muti, Aida at the Semperoper Dresden, La traviata and Nabucco at the Arena di Verona, and Tosca at the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago. He will star, alongside Luca Salsi, in a number of Verdi recitals at La Scala, La Fenice and the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino.

Next season, she will be performing in productions such as Un ballo in maschera, Simon Boccanegra, Macbeth, Carmen, Aida and La rondine.