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ADELMO GUIDARELLI
BARITONE
BIOGRAPHY
GRAMMY award winning Baritone Adelmo Guidarelli is one of opera’s busiest singing actors sought after for the Italian character parts in operas by Donizetti, Rossini, and Mozart such as the title role in Don Pasquale, Dulcamara in The Elixir of Love, Don Magnifico in La Cenerentola, Bartolo in The Barber of Seville and Le Nozze di Figaro, Leporello in Don Giovanni and Don Alphonso in Così Fan Tutte. Other notable roles include Falstaff in Falstaff, Gianni Schicchi in Gianni Schicchi, the Sacristan in Tosca, Benoit and Alcindoro in La Bohème, and Sulpice in The Daughter of the Regiment.
Last season, Guidarelli performed the role of Zuniga in Carmen for Salt Marsh Opera, Don Magnifico in La Cenerentola for Tri-Cities Opera and Syracuse Opera, Sacristan in Tosca for Opera Las Vegas, Bartolo in Le nozze di Figaro for Shreveport Opera, and had a role debut as Germont in La Traviata for Opera Theatre of Connecticut. This season’s engagements include Bartolo in Il barbiere di Siviglia with both Shreveport Opera and Gulfshore Opera, Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte with Cedar Rapids Opera, Judge Turpin in Opera Tampa’s Sweeney Todd, and with Central City Opera for Kiss Me Kate. [read more...]
CRITICAL ACCLAIM
"...deep, abounding voice..." – St. Petersburg Examiner
Le nozze di Figaro – “Guidarelli played the quick-witted Figaro with just the right balance of levelheadedness and tenderness. His deep, abounding voice was appropriately masculine and vigorous.”
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"...stole nearly every scene..." – Taminophile
L’occasione fa il ladro – “Adelmo Guidarelli was charming as Parmenione’s Schleporello-like valet, Martino. A veteran comedy performer, Mr. Guidarelli stole nearly every scene he was in.”
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"...a flexible voice and tremendous gusto..." – Greenville News
La Cenerentola – “Adelmo Guidarelli brings a flexible voice and tremendous gusto to the role of the stepfather Don Magnifico.”
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"...a hysterically funny Don Magnifico..." – Broadway World
La Cenerentola – “A true buffo, Adelmo Guidarelli was a hysterically funny Don Magnifico whose great aria “Miei rampolli femminini” gave him a chance to play with his role and its fast patter. Thus, he showed the audience his excellent dramatic timing and various facets of Magnifico’s not-so-glorious character while singing fast and loud.”
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"...an attractive, full-bodied, powerhouse sound...” – The Virginia Gazette
Carmen – “As Morales/Zuniga, Adelmo Guidarelli delivered an attractive, full-bodied, powerhouse sound!.”