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Tenor Charles Castronovo was born in New York City. Since the start of his professional career, he has sung with many of the world’s important opera companies and symphonic organizations.
Mr. Castronovo’s first professional engagements were with the Los Angeles Opera (as a resident artist) where he gained experience performing over one hundred performances of various supporting roles. Upon leaving Los Angeles, he was accepted into the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, where he made his debut singing the role of Beppe in I Pagliacci with Placido Domingo on the opening night of the 1999-2000 season. Mr. Castronovo later recorded the same role with Decca on the 2000 release of I Pagliacci with Jose Cura, conducted by Riccardo Chailly. From there, he went on to make a series of important role debuts as Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni) and Ernesto (Don Pasquale) with the Boston Lyric Opera, and Fenton (Falstaff) with the Pittsburgh Opera.
European engagements soon followed with concert performances of Rossini’s Stabat Mater in Köln, and later singing Fenton with (Paris Opera, Toulouse and Brussels), Don Ottavio at (Berlin Staatsoper with Daniel Barenboim), Ferrando in Cosi fan tutte (Royal Opera Covent Garden, Opera Monte Carlo & Berlin Staatsoper), Tamino in Die Zauberflöte (Vienna Staatsopera, Paris Opera), Nemorino in L’ elisir d’ Amore (Berlin Staatsoper, Vienna Staatsoper with Anna Netrebko), and Alfredo in La Traviata (Royal Opera Covent Garden, Berlin Staatsoper & Teatro Carlo Felice Genova).
Some recent engagements include the title role in Faust (Pittsburgh Opera), Rodolfo in La Bohème (Detroit Opera), Nadir in Les pêcheur de Perles (San Francisco Opera), Belmonte in Die Enthührung aus dem Serail (Salzburg Festival), and Nemorino (Paris Opera)
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Mr. Castronovo’s concert work includes the tenor soloist in Rossini’s Stabat Mater in London with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, led by Mark Elder, Berlioz' Requiem with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra led by Pierre Boulez, concert performances of Kurt Weill’s Street Scene with the New York Philharmonic, and an opera gala concert with the Deutsche Oper Berlin, conducted by Kent Nagano which was later released on DVD. His recording of the title role in La Clemenza di Tito with Vessilina Kasarova, can be heard on the RCA Red Seal label. Additionally, he appears singing the tenor solo in Rossini’s Stabat Mater, Opus 111 label. Mr. Castronovo’s most recent DVD release is of his performance of Belmonte in Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail, live from the 2006 Salzburg Festival, released by Decca.
Future engagements include Il Duca in Rigoletto (Bordeaux), Tom Rakewell in The Rake’s Progress (Royal Opera Covent Garden), Don Ottavio (San Francisco Opera & Los Angeles Opera), Mylio in Le Roi d’Ys (Toulouse), Alfredo (Royal Opera, Covent Garden), Elvino in La Sonnambula (Detroit Opera) and Nadir (San Diego Opera & Washington National Opera).
Last update (August, 2007)