Andrea Silvestrelli is one of the most sought-after bassi profondi on the international opera scene. Garnering critical acclaim for his début at the Lyric Opera of Chicago in Rigoletto, the Chicago Sun-Times reported, “There were wild cheers for Andrea Silvestrelli…who brought a terrifying, sepulchral tone to the assassin Sparafucile.” The Chicago Tribune concurred, “Andrea Silvestrelli wielded a big, black, menacing bass in his début as the assassin Sparafucile.”

Last season, Silvestrelli returned to Houston Grand Opera as Klingsor in Parsifal, and he joined Opera Australia as Fafner, Hunding, and Hagen in three full cycles of Der Ring des Nibelungen in Brisbane. This season he will join Teatro Verdi Trieste to take on the title role in Bluebeard’s Castle and to sing Osmin in Abduction from the Seraglio, join Angers Nantes Opéra to sing L’Orco in Mascagni’s Il piccolo Marat, and sing Fasholt in Das Rheingold with Pacific Symphony. Recent performances include the title role in Attila and Thomas Becket in Assassinio nella cattedrale with Opera Festival of Chicago, Hagen in Götterdämmerung and Fafner in Siegfried in a return to the National Taichung Theater in Taiwan, and Sparafucile in Rigoletto with Boston Lyric Opera. He also appeared with Maryland Lyric Opera as Filippo II in Don Carlo, Banco in Macbeth, and Pistola in Falstaff.