Leonardo Nibbi, baritone, born in Florence; after he received his singing degree in 1998 studying with Maria Grazia Germani at the Conservatoire "L.Cherubini" in Florence, he then specialized with Susanna Rigacci, Johanna Peters, Paolo Coni and Angelo Romero. Third classified in the International Competition "CàscinaLirica99", and winner of the Tenth competition of William Walton's Foundation "William Walton - il cantante attore" for the role of Amida in Francesco Cavalli's "Ormindo", he makes is theatre debut in November 1999 at the "Teatro Verdi" in Pisa, where he was Ares, Efesto and Apollo in the first staging of Roberto Scarcella's new opera "A caval Donato..."; he works then as a soloist with various theatres and musical institutions like "Teatro S.Carlo" of Napoli, the theatres of Livorno, Ravenna, Modena, Bolzano and Ferrara, "l'Operà" di Bastia, the Accademia Chigiana, Theatre Vittorio Emanuele in Messina, Theatre "G.Borgatti" in Cento, Theatre "Isabel la Católica" in Granada, Theatre "Politeama Pratese", the "Baldassarre Galuppi" Festival in Venice, the "Teatro Comunale" in Adria, Theatre Manzoni in Pistoia and the "Istituto Nazionale Tostiano" in Ortona. He worked under the musical conduction of Claudio Desderi, Reynald Giovaninetti, Paolo Olmi, Enrique Mazzola, Stephen Lord, Jan Caeyers, Roberto Tolomelli, Giuseppe Bruno, Alessandro Pinzauti, Gabriele Catalucci, Daniela Contessi, José Maria Sciutto and Giampaolo Mazzoli, and under the stage direction of Josè Carlos Plaza, Colin Graham, Sylvano Bussotti, Walter Pagliaro, Simona Marchini, Ugo Gregoretti, Rolando Panerai, Marina Bianchi and Mietta Corli, An Roos, Angelo Savelli and Alessio Pizzek. The main roles staged widens from the Barocco repertoire (Amida in Cavalli's "Ormindo") to the "Settecento" roles (Figaro in Mozart's "Le Nozze di Figaro"), from the nineteenth Century "Opera Buffa" (Figaro and Don Bartolo in Rossini's "Il Barbiere di Siviglia" and Malatesta in Donizetti's "Don Pasquale") to the Modern repertoire ( the Husband in Menotti's "Amelia al Ballo" and Orff "Carmina Burana"), up to the Contemporary music (the Celebrant in Leonard Bernstein's "Mass"). Download Up To Date Curriculum (ITA/ENG)