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==Discography== |
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His most recent recordings are entitled ''O Sole Mio'' (2003) and ''Torna a Surriento'' (2004), the latter winning a critics' choice award from "[[Gramophone (magazine)|Gramophone]] |
His most recent recordings are entitled ''O Sole Mio'' (2003) and ''Torna a Surriento'' (2004), the latter winning a critics' choice award from "[[Gramophone (magazine)|Gramophone]]" magazine. Each features [[Music of Naples|Neapolitan]] and Italian songs with orchestrations by John Colaiacovo. |
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Revision as of 16:17, 4 September 2012
Ronald Naldi is an American lyric tenor who has sung 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, Samuel Ramey, and Renee Fleming, among many.
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 300 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. In his 15th consecutive season at the Met ('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.
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 for 39 consecutive summer seasons.
Education
Naldi earned his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in music in five years at Indiana University (Bloomington) and subsequently received a Fulbright scholarship to study in Rome. He has studied voice with 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 are entitled O Sole Mio (2003) and Torna a Surriento (2004), the latter winning a critics' choice award from "Gramophone" magazine. Each features Neapolitan and Italian songs with orchestrations by John Colaiacovo.