Ernesto Petti

Ernesto Petti, born in Salerno in 1986, is among the best-known emerging baritones on the international opera scene. A graduate of the Accademia di Alto Perfezionamento in Torre del Lago Puccini, he was a member of the Centre de Perfeccionament Plácido Domingo at the Palau de les Arts in Valencia. He made his very young debut as Eagro in Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice at the Festival della Valle d'Itria in Martina Franca, but his first important part was as Giorgio Germont in La Traviata in 2015 in the Roman Amphitheatre in Lecce.

His recent and future engagements include: Giorgio Germont in La Traviata at the Teatro Lirico Cagliari, at the Opéra Grand Avignon and on tour in Italy, Renato in Un Ballo in Maschera at the NCPA in Beijing, Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Piacenza, Ravenna and Ferrara, Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor at the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari, at the San Carlo in Naples and in a new production at the Theater Basel, Paolo in Simon Boccanegra at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Carlo Gérard in Andrea Chénier at the Teatro Alighieri in Ravenna, Marcello in La Bohème and Ford in Falstaff at the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari, Mascagni's Iris at the Konzerthaus in Berlin, the debut in the role of Alfio in Cavalleria Rusticana at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, La bohème in Rome, Nabucco in Oviedo and Mainz, Il Trovatore in Menorca, Ernani in Venice, Antwerp, Piacenza, Ferrara and Reggio Emilia, Lucia di Lammermoor at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Samson et Dalila at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Rigoletto and L'amore dei tre re at the Sydney Opera House, Tonio in Pagliacci at the Teatro Verdi in Salerno, Rodrigo in Don Carlo in Piacenza and Reggio Emilia, Renato in Un ballo in maschera at the Liceu in Barcelona, finally Barnaba in La Gioconda, Paolo Albiani in Simon Boccanegra and Escamillo in Carmen at the San Carlo in Naples