AndreaMastroni
Representation
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 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 Grande Inquisitore in a semi-staged Don Carlo with Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra.
Representation
General management with Askonas Holt
Season Highlights
Video
Andrea Mastroni performs 'Hat man nicht auch Gold beineben' from Beethoven's Fidelio
Credit: Opera de Oviedo
PlayingAndrea Mastroni performs at the Museo Teatrale alla Scala, Milan in celebration of La Festa della Musica
He sings Rocco's aria 'Hat man nicht auch Gold beineben' from Fidelio, 'Der Neugierige' from Schubert's Die schöne Müllerin cycle, and Mustafa's aria 'Già d'insolito ardore nel petto' from L'italiana in Algeri, accompanied by James Vaughn. Credit: Teatro alla Scala
PlayingAndrea Mastroni sings Garibaldo in Handel’s Rodelinda
Credit: Opera de Lille
PlayingAndrea Mastroni sings “Fra l’ombre e gl’orrori”
Aci Galatea e Polifemo HWV 72 Andrea Mastroni, bass Riccardo, conductor and cembalo Accademia dell’Annunciata Orchestra Credit: Andrea Mastroni
Playing
Audio
- Andrea Mastroni as Mustafà in Rossini' Italiana in AlgeriCredit: Toulon Opera
- Andrea Mastroni sings Duparc's 'L'invitation au voyage' from his album LamentoCredit: Brilliant Classics
- Andrea Mastroni sings Duparc's 'Le manoir de Rosemonde' from his album LamentoCredit: Brilliant Classics
- Andrea Mastroni sings Duparc's 'Phidylé' from his album LamentoCredit: Brilliant Classics
Selected Repertoire
| Bartók | Bluebeard’s Castle (Bluebeard) |
|---|---|
| Beethoven | Fidelio (Rocco) |
| Bellini | La Sonnambula (Rodolfo) • Norma (Oroveso) |
| Berlioz | L’enfance du Christ (Herode) |
| Boito | Mefistofele |
| Cavalli | La Calisto (Giove) |
| Debussy | Pelléas et Mélisande (Arkel) |
| Donizetti | Don Pasquale • Lucia di Lammermoor (Raimondo) |
| Halevy | La Juive (Cardinal de Brogni) |
| Handel | Agrippina (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] |
| Massenet | Don Quichotte |
| Metastasio | L’Olimpiade (Clistene) |
| Monteverdi | Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria (Nettuno/Antino) • L’ Incoronazione di Poppea (Seneca) • Orfeo (Caronte & Plutone) • |
| Mozart | Die Zauberflöte (Sarastro) • Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Osmin) • Don Giovanni • Così fan tutte (Don Alfonso) |
| Ponchielli | La Gioconda |
| Puccini | Turandot (Timur) |
| R. Strauss | Der Rosenkavalier (Baron Ochs) • Elektra (Oreste) |
| Rameau | Platée (Cithéron) |
| Rossini | Aureliano 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) |
| Stravinsky | Oedipus Rex (Tiresias) |
| Thomas | Hamlet (Claudius) |
| Verdi | Don Carlo (Il Grande Inquisitore) • Ernani (Don Ruy Gomez de Silva) • Luisa Miller (Wurm) • I Vespri Siciliani (Procida) |
| Wagner | Parsifal (Gurnemanz) • Tristan und Isolde (König Marke) • Die Walküre (Hunding) • Der fliegende Holländer (Daland) |
News
Press
Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria (Monteverdi)
Wiener StaatsoperApr 2023Andrea Mastroni stach als tief hinunterorgelnder Nettuno heraus [translated] 'Andrea Mastroni stood out as a scheming Neptune.'
- Michael Wruss, Oberösterreichische Nachrichten
- 03 April 2023
Andrea Mastroni verströmt Bassautorität als Neptun. [translated] Andrea Mastroni exudes bass authority as Neptune
- Martin Gasser, Kleine Zeitung Steiermark
- 03 April 2023
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.
- Miriam Damev, Falter: Woche
- 03 April 2023
