Antonello Palombi

Antonello Palombi has performed the title and lead roles in works including: Carmen, Nabucco, Don Carlo, Aida, Tosca, Fedora, Norma, Manon Lescaut, Turandot, Mefistofele, Samson et Dalila, La Fanciulla del West, La Forza del Destino, Il Tabarro, Pagliacci, Otello, Andrea Chénier, Il Trovatore.

A regular guest at the world's leading opera houses, he has sung at La Scala in Milan, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Atlanta Opera, the Teatro Regio in Turin, the Rome Opera, the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, La Fenice in Venice, the New National Theatre in Tokyo, the Royal Albert Hall in London, the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, the Hungarian State Opera in Budapest, the Teatro São Carlos in Lisbon, the Teatro Bellini in Catania, Cairo Opera, the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago, Oper Frankfurt, Opernhaus Zürich, Seattle Opera, Hamer Hall in Melbourne, Dallas Opera, Palm Beach Opera, Michigan Opera in Detroit, the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Cincinnati Opera, Monte Carlo Opera, and Baltimore Opera.

Antonello Palombi has worked with conductors including: Roberto Abbado, Yves Abel, Yuri Ahronovitch, Bruno Aprea, Marco Armiliato, Christian Badea, Maurizio Barbacini, Bruno Bartoletti, Andrea Battistoni, Giordano Bellincampi, Oleg Caetani, Daniele Callegari, Bruno Campanella, Giuliano Carella, Paolo Carignani, Riccardo Chailly, Patrick Davin, Claudio Desderi, Carlo Franci, Riccardo Frizza, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Yoel Levi, Andrea Licata, Stephen Lord, Robert Lyall, Paolo Olmi, Renato Palumbo, Antonio Pirolli, Stefano Ranzani, Donato Renzetti, Nello Santi, Robert Spano, Pinchas Steinberg, Vjekoslav Šutej, Marcello Viotti, Franz Welser-Möst, Dean Williamson and Marco Zambelli.

Recent engagements include: Mefistofele in Pisa, Tokyo, Stuttgart and Cagliari; Il Tabarro at the Rome Opera, in Naples and in Essen; Pagliacci in Naples, Macerata, Sassari, Mainz, Tokyo and Nagoya, and at the Macedonian Opera & Ballet; Andrea Chénier in Naples, Beijing and Barcelona; Nabucco and Aida in Naples, with Aida also at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, in New Zealand, in Bologna, Kiel and Malta; Tosca in Naples and Ancona, in Perth, Tokyo, Klagenfurt and Athens; La Forza del Destino and Otello in Genoa, with Otello also in Perth, Tokyo, Klagenfurt, Athens and Mainz, and La Forza del Destino also in Essen; Turandot in Bologna, Marseille and Mainz; Il Trovatore in Trieste; Madama Butterfly in Macerata; La Gioconda and Refice's Cecilia at the Teatro Lirico in Cagliari; Manon Lescaut in Mainz; Cavalleria Rusticana in Tokyo, Nagoya and Prague; and Puccini's Messa di Gloria in Mainz.

Engagements in the 2026–27 season include Turandot at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa and La Fanciulla del West in Essen.