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William Matteuzzi (born 12 December 1957 in Bologna
Bologna

Bologna is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy, in the Po Valley , between the Po River and the Apennine Mountains, exactly between the Reno River and the S?vena River....
, Italy) is an Italian operatic tenor
Tenor

The tenor is a type of male voice type and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between the C one octave below middle C to the A above in choral music, and up to high C in solo work....
 renowned for his impressive vocal range and prominent upper register, reaching a high F (above the tenor high C) in full voice., which enabled him to participate in the recent revival of the tenore contraltino repertoire. He is also admired as a fine musician and elegant vocalist.

He won the Enrico Caruso Singing Competition in 1980, which led him to Teatro alla Scala.

He has sung a wide repertoire ranging from Claudio Monteverdi
Claudio Monteverdi

Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi , was an Italian composer, viol, and singer.Monteverdi's work, often regarded as revolutionary, marked the transition from the music of the Renaissance music to that of the Baroque music....
 or Antonio Vivaldi
Antonio Vivaldi

Antonio Lucio Vivaldi , nicknamed il Prete Rosso , was a Baroque music composer and Venice priest, as well as a famous virtuoso violinist, born and raised in the Republic of Venice....
 (Orlando furioso
Orlando furioso (Vivaldi)

Orlando furioso is an opera in three acts by Antonio Vivaldi to an Italian libretto by Grazio Braccioli, based on the poem of the Orlando furioso by Ariosto....
) to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood in Salzburg. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty; at seventeen he was engaged as a court musician in Salzburg, but grew restless and traveled in search of a better position, always...
 (Cosě fan tutte
Cosě fan tutte

Cos? fan tutte, ossia La scuola degli amanti K. 588, is an opera buffa by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The libretto was written by Lorenzo da Ponte....
), Vincenzo Bellini
Vincenzo Bellini

Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini was an Italy opera composer. Known for his flowing melodic lines for which he was named "the Swan of Catania", Bellini was the quintessential composer of Bel canto opera....
 (I Puritani
I puritani

I puritani is an opera in three acts, by Vincenzo Bellini. Libretto by Count Carlo Pepoli based on T?tes rondes et Cavaliers by Jacques-Fran?ois Ancelot and Joseph Xavier Saintine....
 and La Sonnambula
La sonnambula

La sonnambula is an opera semiseria in two acts, music by Vincenzo Bellini to an Italian libretto by Felice Romani, based on a ballet-pantomime by Eug?ne Scribe....
), Gaetano Donizetti
Gaetano Donizetti

Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti was an Italy composer from Bergamo, Lombardy. Donizetti's most famous work is Lucia di Lammermoor , and arguably his most immediately recognizable piece of music is the aria "Una furtiva lagrima" from L'elisir d'amore ....
 (La fille du régiment
La fille du régiment

La fille du r?giment is an op?ra comique in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Written while the composer was living in Paris, the French libretto is by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Jean-Fran?ois Bayard....
) and Giovanni Pacini
Giovanni Pacini

Giovanni Pacini was an Italy composer, best known for his operas....
 (L’ultimo giorno di Pompei).

A highly respected Rossini specialist, he made his Metropolitan Opera
Metropolitan Opera

The Metropolitan Opera Association of New York City, founded in April 1880, is a major presenter of all types of opera including Grand Opera. Peter Gelb is the company's general manager and James Levine is music director....
 debut in 1988 as Count Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia.






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William Matteuzzi (born 12 December 1957 in Bologna
Bologna

Bologna is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy, in the Po Valley , between the Po River and the Apennine Mountains, exactly between the Reno River and the S?vena River....
, Italy) is an Italian operatic tenor
Tenor

The tenor is a type of male voice type and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between the C one octave below middle C to the A above in choral music, and up to high C in solo work....
 renowned for his impressive vocal range and prominent upper register, reaching a high F (above the tenor high C) in full voice., which enabled him to participate in the recent revival of the tenore contraltino repertoire. He is also admired as a fine musician and elegant vocalist.

He won the Enrico Caruso Singing Competition in 1980, which led him to Teatro alla Scala.

He has sung a wide repertoire ranging from Claudio Monteverdi
Claudio Monteverdi

Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi , was an Italian composer, viol, and singer.Monteverdi's work, often regarded as revolutionary, marked the transition from the music of the Renaissance music to that of the Baroque music....
 or Antonio Vivaldi
Antonio Vivaldi

Antonio Lucio Vivaldi , nicknamed il Prete Rosso , was a Baroque music composer and Venice priest, as well as a famous virtuoso violinist, born and raised in the Republic of Venice....
 (Orlando furioso
Orlando furioso (Vivaldi)

Orlando furioso is an opera in three acts by Antonio Vivaldi to an Italian libretto by Grazio Braccioli, based on the poem of the Orlando furioso by Ariosto....
) to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood in Salzburg. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty; at seventeen he was engaged as a court musician in Salzburg, but grew restless and traveled in search of a better position, always...
 (Cosě fan tutte
Cosě fan tutte

Cos? fan tutte, ossia La scuola degli amanti K. 588, is an opera buffa by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The libretto was written by Lorenzo da Ponte....
), Vincenzo Bellini
Vincenzo Bellini

Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini was an Italy opera composer. Known for his flowing melodic lines for which he was named "the Swan of Catania", Bellini was the quintessential composer of Bel canto opera....
 (I Puritani
I puritani

I puritani is an opera in three acts, by Vincenzo Bellini. Libretto by Count Carlo Pepoli based on T?tes rondes et Cavaliers by Jacques-Fran?ois Ancelot and Joseph Xavier Saintine....
 and La Sonnambula
La sonnambula

La sonnambula is an opera semiseria in two acts, music by Vincenzo Bellini to an Italian libretto by Felice Romani, based on a ballet-pantomime by Eug?ne Scribe....
), Gaetano Donizetti
Gaetano Donizetti

Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti was an Italy composer from Bergamo, Lombardy. Donizetti's most famous work is Lucia di Lammermoor , and arguably his most immediately recognizable piece of music is the aria "Una furtiva lagrima" from L'elisir d'amore ....
 (La fille du régiment
La fille du régiment

La fille du r?giment is an op?ra comique in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Written while the composer was living in Paris, the French libretto is by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Jean-Fran?ois Bayard....
) and Giovanni Pacini
Giovanni Pacini

Giovanni Pacini was an Italy composer, best known for his operas....
 (L’ultimo giorno di Pompei).

A highly respected Rossini specialist, he made his Metropolitan Opera
Metropolitan Opera

The Metropolitan Opera Association of New York City, founded in April 1880, is a major presenter of all types of opera including Grand Opera. Peter Gelb is the company's general manager and James Levine is music director....
 debut in 1988 as Count Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia. He has performed Rossini's comic opera
Comic opera

Comic opera, or light opera, denotes a sung dramatic work of a light or comic nature, usually with a happy ending.Comic opera first developed in 18th-century Italy as opera buffa, an alternative to opera seria....
s La scala di seta
La scala di seta

'La scala di seta' is an operatic farsa comica in one act by Gioachino Rossini to a libretto by Giuseppe Maria Foppa. It was first performed in Venice, Italy at the Teatro San Mois? on May 9, 1812....
, L'occasione fa il ladro
L'occasione fa il ladro

'L?occasione fa il ladro, ossia Il cambio della valigia' is an opera in one act by Gioacchino Rossini to an Italian language libretto by Luigi Prividali, based on Le pr?tendu par hazard, ou L?occasion fait le larron, a play by Eug?ne Scribe....
, L'italiana in Algeri
L'italiana in Algeri

'L'italiana in Algeri' is an operatic dramma giocoso in two acts by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Angelo Anelli, based on his earlier text set by Luigi Mosca....
, La gazza ladra
La gazza ladra

La gazza ladra is a melodramma or opera semiseria in two acts by Gioachino Rossini. The libretto was by Giovanni Gherardini after La pie voleuse by JMT Badouin d'Aubigny and Louis-Charles Caigniez....
, La Cenerentola
La Cenerentola

La Cenerentola, ossia La bont? in trionfo is an operatic dramma giocoso in two acts by Gioachino Rossini. The libretto was written by Jacopo Ferretti, based on the fairy tale Cinderella....
, La pietra del paragone
La pietra del paragone

La pietra del paragone is an opera, or melodramma giocoso, in two acts by Gioacchino Rossini, to an original Italian language libretto by Luigi Romanelli....
, Il viaggio a Reims
Il viaggio a Reims

Il viaggio a Reims, ossia L'albergo del giglio d'oro is an operatic dramma giocoso in one act by Gioacchino Rossini to an Italian language libretto by Luigi Balocchi, based in part on Corinne, ou L'Italie by Anne Louise Germaine de Sta?l....
, Le comte Ory
Le comte Ory

Le comte Ory is an opera written by Gioacchino Rossini in 1828. Some of the music originates from his opera Il viaggio a Reims written three years earlier for the coronation of Charles X of France....
 as well as his opere serie
Opera seria

Opera seria is an Italian musical term which refers to the noble and "serious" style of Italian opera that predominated in Europe from the 1710s to ca....
 Otello
Otello (Rossini)

Otello is an opera in three acts by Gioacchino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Berio di Salsi, based on William Shakespeare's Play Othello....
, Zelmira
Zelmira

Zelmira is an opera in two acts by Gioacchino Rossini to a libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola. Based on the French play, Zelmire by Pierre-Laurent Buirette de Belloy, it was the last of the composer's Teatro di San Carlo operas....
, Armida
Armida (Rossini)

Armida is an opera in two acts by Gioacchino Rossini to an Italian language libretto by Giovanni Schmidt, based on scenes from Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso....
, Ricciardo e Zoraide
Ricciardo e Zoraide

Ricciardo e Zoraide is an opera in two act by Gioacchino Rossini to an Italian language libretto by Francesco Berio de Salsa. The text is based on cantos XIV and XV of Il Ricciardetto, an epic poem by Niccol? Forteguerri ....
, Maometto II
Maometto II

Maometto secondo is an opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini, to an Italian libretto by Cesare della Valle, based on his earlier play Anna Erizo....
, Semiramide
Semiramide

Semiramide is an opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini.The libretto was written by Gaetano Rossi, based on Voltaire's tragedy Semiramis, which in turn was based on the legend of Semiramis of Babylon ....
, etc.

He now mainly dedicates himself to teaching singing and giving master classes in Italy, Germany and Japan, but he has latterly founded an ensemble for recording Monteverdi operas. (Released L'incoronazione di Poppea
L'incoronazione di Poppea

L'incoronazione di Poppea is an opera seria in three acts by Claudio Monteverdi to an Italian libretto by Giovanni Francesco Busenello, based on historical incidents described in the Annals ....
, recorded L'Orfeo,....

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