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Ronald Naldi is an American lyric tenor who has performed on the stages of the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Arena di Verona, L'Opéra Français, Salzburger Landestheater, and New Jersey State Opera, under the baton of maestri James Levine, Valery Gergiev, James Conlon, David Robertson, Leonard Slatkin, Joseph Colaneri, Charles Mackerras, Vincent LaSelva, Christopher Keene, Alfredo Silipigni, Thomas Booth, Lukas Foss, Nello Santi, and Eduardo Müller, and alongside singers Plácido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti, Leo Nucci, James Morris, and Samuel Ramey - to name only a few.
Naldi's repertory comprises over 100 operatic roles in six languages, as well as an extensive song repertory in the American, English, French, German and Italian literature.
Naldi has sung more than 250 performances at the Metropolitan Opera since his debut there in 1983, including Ismaele in Nabucco, Tschekalinsky in The Queen of Spades, and Vitek in the Met premiere of Leoš Janáček's The Makropulos Case. The 2006-2007 season found him in multiple performances, most notably as Zorn in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and Bruno in I Puritani, aside Anna Netrebko. In '07-'08, he sang in productions of Macbeth, War and Peace, Otello, and The Gambler, as well as a Boston production of Les Troyens with James Levine and the BSO. In his 16th consecutive season at the Met (2008-2009), he appeared in Lucia di Lammermoor, The Magic Flute, Il Trovatore, and Salome.
Naldi has also appeared with the festivals of Spoleto (Italy), Waterloo, Ontario, and Caramoor, and toured China, Egypt, the Arab Emirates, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka with the Ambassadors of Opera. He has performed with over 25 symphony orchestras and has an extensive repertory of more than 30 oratorios. With St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble, he has sung over 200 performances of the chamber operas of Haydn, Mozart, Offenbach, Rieti, Bakst, Fioravanti, and Rossini.
He is a member of the Italian-American Hall of Fame, and the tenor soloist and artist-in-residence in Ocean Grove, New Jersey, where he completed his 36th consecutive season.
Education
Naldi studied voice at Indiana University (Bloomington) (earning his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in five years), and subsequently received a Fulbright scholarship to study in Rome. He has been a student of Charles Kullman, Margaret Harshaw, Luciano Francardi, Luigi Ricci, Carol Bayard, and William Riley.
From 1966 to 1973, he was a professor of voice at Memphis State University (now the University of Memphis).
Discography
His most recent recordings, on Romeo Records, are entitled O Sole Mio (2003) and Torna a Surriento (2004). Each features Neapolitan and Italian songs with orchestrations by John Colaiacovo. The latter won a critics' choice award from Gramophone magazine.