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Kate Robson

Assistant Artist Manager

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General management with Askonas Holt

About Andrea

Italian bass Andrea Mastroni began his musical education as a clarinettist before moving to vocal studies where he graduated from the Istituto Claudio Monteverdi in Cremona. His awards include the Mario Basiola prize (2005), the Giuseppe Di Stefano prize (Trapani) for his portrayal of Sparafucile (Rigoletto), the Bibiena (Mantua) prize (2007) and the XXXVII Prize Franco Abbiati for his performance in Perocco’s Aquagranda at Teatro La Fenice.

Andrea’s repertoire includes Rocco (Fidelio), Seneca (L’Incoronazione di Poppea), Hunding (Die Walküre), Selim (Il turco in Italia), Il Re di Scozia, (Ariodante), Daland (Der fliegende Holländer), Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte), Gremin (Eugene Onegin), Licomede (Achille in Sciro), Mustàfa (Italiana in Algeri), Il Grande Inquisitore (Don Carlo), Agrippina and the title roles in Don Giovanni and Don Pasquale among many others.

He has appeared at The Metropolitan Opera, Opernhaus Zürich, Teatro Real Madrid, Bayerische Staatsoper, Deutsche Staatsoper, Hamburgische Staatsoper, Cincinnati Opera, Theatre des Champs-Elysées, Teatro Massimo Di Palermo, and Royal Opera House Covent Garden.

Other achievements for Andrea include a solo album titled ‘Melancholia – Handel arias for bass with the Accademia dell’ Annunciata. In addition, he recently featured on the 2020 Gramophone award winning recording of Handel’s Agrippina for Erato with Il Pomo d’Oro and Maxim Emelyanychev. He also featured on the album release of The Metropolitan Opera’s 2022 production of Rigoletto.

Upcoming highlights include a return to the role of Sparafucile in Metropolitan Opera’s production of Verdi’s Rigoletto, Sapienza in a new production of I Grotteschi, a collection of Monteverdi Operas at La Monnaie, Polidoro in Zelmira at the Rossini Opera Festival and Phillippe II in a semi-staged Don Carlo with Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra.

Andrea is based in Milan, Italy

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General management with Askonas Holt

Season Highlights

Jan 2025 - Jul 2025
Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra, United States
Don Carlo Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra
Feb 2025 - May 2024
La Monnaie, Brussels
I Grotteschi (role of Sapienza) Leonardo García Alarcón (Conductor) Rafael R. Villalobos (Director)
Jul 2025 - Aug 2025
Rossini Opera Festival, Italy
Rossini's Zelmira

Selected Repertoire

BartókBluebeard’s Castle (Bluebeard)
BeethovenFidelio (Rocco)
BelliniLa Sonnambula (Rodolfo)   •   Norma (Oroveso)
BerliozL’enfance du Christ (Herode)
BoitoMefistofele
CavalliLa Calisto (Giove)
DebussyPelléas et Mélisande (Arkel)
DonizettiDon Pasquale   •   Lucia di Lammermoor (Raimondo)
HalevyLa Juive (Cardinal de Brogni)
HandelAgrippina (Claudio)   •   Ariodante (Il Re di Scozia)   •   Giulio Cesare (Achilla)   •   Jephtha (Zebul)   •   Orlando (Zoroastro)   •   Rodelinda (Garibaldo)   •   Semele (Cadmus and Somnus)   •   Tolomeo, re d’Egitto (Araspe) [415hz]
MassenetDon Quichotte
MetastasioL’Olimpiade (Clistene)
MonteverdiIl ritorno d’Ulisse in patria (Nettuno/Antino)   •   L’ Incoronazione di Poppea (Seneca)   •   Orfeo (Caronte & Plutone)   •   
MozartDie Zauberflöte (Sarastro)   •   Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Osmin)   •   Don Giovanni   •   Così fan tutte (Don Alfonso)
PonchielliLa Gioconda
PucciniTurandot (Timur)
R. StraussDer Rosenkavalier (Baron Ochs)   •   Elektra (Oreste)
RameauPlatée (Cithéron)
RossiniAureliano in Palmira   •   Italiana in Algeri (Mustafà)   •   Il Turco in Italia (Selim)   •   Il Viaggio a Reims (Lord Sidney)   •   Le comte Ory (Le Gouverneur)   •   Moïse et Pharaon (Moïse)
StravinskyOedipus Rex (Tiresias)
ThomasHamlet (Claudius)
VerdiDon Carlo (Il Grande Inquisitore)   •   Ernani (Don Ruy Gomez de Silva)   •   Luisa Miller (Wurm)   •   I Vespri Siciliani (Procida)
WagnerParsifal (Gurnemanz)   •   Tristan und Isolde (König Marke)   •   Die Walküre (Hunding)   •   Der fliegende Holländer (Daland)

News

Press

  • Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria (Monteverdi)

    Wiener Staatsoper
    Apr 2023
    • Andrea Mastroni stach als tief hinunterorgelnder Nettuno heraus [translated] 'Andrea Mastroni stood out as a scheming Neptune.'

    • Andrea Mastroni verströmt Bassautorität als Neptun. [translated] Andrea Mastroni exudes bass authority as Neptune

    • Stimmlich stark auch die Götter, allen voran Isabel Signorets wohltimbrierte Minerva und Andrea Mastronis abgründigtiefer Neptune [translated] Also vocally strong are the gods, above all Isabel Signoret's well-timbered Minerva and Andrea Mastroni's evil Neptune.