Giovanni Battista Parodi
tenor
Born in Genova, after his musical studies, he joined the Academy of Teatro alla Scala, where he made his debut in Fidelio, and in Tosca, both conducted by M° Muti, and in Adriana Lecouvreur.
He performed in Verdi Requiem, La Bohéme, Il trovatore, La traviata, Un ballo in maschera, Macbeth, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Oberto, Orfeo at La Scala, where he opened the 2001 Season with Otello and in 2002 with Iphigenie en Aulide.
He sang La bohéme,a new Otello, Il barbiere di Siviglia and I lombardi alla I° Crociata, Lucia di Lammermoor at the Teatro Comunale in Florence, and regularly sang in Bologna, Trieste, Rome, Verona, Turin, Genoa, Parma, Bilbao, Amsterdam, Bruxelles, Naples, Oslo, Bregenz…
He performed in Rigoletto and Un ballo in maschera, at Covent Garden and I Capuleti e I Montecchi, Otello and La Bohéme at the Opéra de Paris as well as La Calisto, Don Giovanni and Rossini’s Stabat Mater at the Théatre des Champs-Elysées.
Among his recent and future engagement: Un Ballo in maschera in Toronto, Trovatore in Sao Paulo and Carmen in Barcellona; Meistersinger, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, La Semiramide and Aida at Tiroler Festspiele in Erl, Falstaff at La Scala, La Wally in Piacenza and La Calisto in Strasbourg, La Ciociara at Teatro Lirico in Cagliari, Falstaff in Budapest and in Vicenza with the Budapest Symphony Orchestra and Ivan Fischer, Nabucco in Quebec, again Falstaff at Lincoln Center with BSO.
