Simone Del Savio Baritone

Simone del Savio was born in Susa (Italy) and studied at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Turin. In 2005, he won the Toti dal Monte International Singing Competition and the Riccardo Zandonai Prize. In 2007, in Austria, he received the Eberhard Wächter Medal as best young singer of the 2006 /  2007 season.

He has performed Don Profondo (Il viaggio a Reims) at the Rossini Festival in Pesaro in 2005 and made his debut at Teatro alla Scala in Milan in 2007 in Madama Butterfly (Sharpless) and Così fan tutte (Don Alfonso), at the Salzburg Festival in 2008 in Otello (Montano), the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in 2010 in La Bohème (Schaunard), at the Deutsche Oper Berlin in 2011 (Sharpless), the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich in 2012 (Schaunard).

His repertoire comprises the works of Mozart, Rossini, Bellini, Verdi and Puccini: Leporello (Don Giovanni), Bartolo (The Barber of Seville), Don Alvaro (Il viaggio a Reims), Prosdocimo (Il turco in Italia), the title-role in Don Pasquale, Belcore and Dulcamara in L’elisir d’amore, Enrico Ashton (Lucia di Lammermoor), Riccardo (I Puritani) Giorgio Germont (La Traviata)…

More recently, he has performed Figaro (The Barber of Seville) at La Fenice, Venice, Dandini (La Cenerentola) at the Grand Théâtre de Genève, Dulcamara in Las Palmas, Giorgio Germont at La Fenice, at Teatro Massimo in Palermo, at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and Teatro Comunale in Bologna, Figaro (Le Nozze di Figaro) in Florence, Novara and Ravenne, Bartolo at Teatro Regio in Parma, Sharpless at Teatro Regio in Turin, Schaunard and Dulcamara in Rome, the title-role in Rigoletto in Frankfurt, Ping (Turandot) in Turin and Geneva.

At the Paris Opera: Rigoletto (Count de Monterone), 2012 ; La Bohème (Schaunard), 2014 ; Così fan tutte (Don Alfonso), 2017 ; The Barber of Seville (Bartolo), 2018 ; L’elisir d’amore (Belcore), 2021