Ambrogio Maestri Baritone

Season 23/24 Artist – Season 24/25 Artist

Born in Pavia (Italy), Ambrogio Maestri studied piano and singing with Umberto Grilli. His international career began in 2001 with the lead role of Falstaff at Teatro alla Scala in Milan and the Teatro Verdi in Busseto -a role in which he celebrated its 250th performance at the Vienna Staatsoper in 2016. Ambrogio Maestri then made his role debut at the Teatro alla Scala in emblematic operas by Verdi: Jago (Otello), Renato (Un ballo in Maschera), Don Carlo di Vargas (La forza del destino) and Giorgio Germont (La Traviata). He has been invited to perform at the greatest international opera houses, including the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Paris Opera, London’s Covent Garden, the Vienna Staatsoper, the Deutsche Oper in Berlin.

His repertoire includes the roles of Baron Scarpia (Tosca), Amonasro (Aida), the title roles in Simon Boccanegra, Rigoletto, Nabucco, Don Pasquale, and Gérard (Andrea Chénier), Dulcamara (L'elisir d’amore) and Mamma Agata (Viva la Mamma). Ambrogio Maestri has worked with conductors Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Chailly, Daniele Gatti, Daniel Oren, Fabio Luisi, Antonio Pappano, Christian Thielemann, Jeffrey Tate, James Levine, Nello Santi, Marcello Viotti, Marco Armiliato, Gianandrea Noseda and Daniel Harding. He also worked with many stage directors such as Franco Zeffirelli, Robert Carsen, Graham Vick, Peter Stein, Bob Wilson, Laurent Pelly, Mario Martone, Hugo De Ana, Bartlett Sher, Damiano Michieletto, Davide Livermore...

During the 2023/24 season, Ambrogio Maestri sings the titles roles in Don Pasquale and Gianni Schicchi at the Vienna Staatsoper, Baron Scarpia (Tosca) in Tokyo and Nagoya, Dulcamara at Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, the title role in Don Pasquale at Teatro alla Scala, and Michonnet (Adriana Lecouvreur) at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona.

At the Paris Opera: L'elisir d’amore (Dulcamara), 2006, 2007, 2015, 2021; Rigoletto (title-role), 2008; Falstaff (title-role), 2013