One
of the leading lyric tenors of our day, Frank Lopardo is seen on a regular
basis with prestigious operatic companies and orchestras around the world.
He has collaborated with the world’s finest conductors including Claudio
Abbado, Leonard Bernstein, Sir Colin Davis, Charles Dutoit, Christoph Eschenbach,
James Levine, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Seiji Ozawa, Robert Spano, Michael
Tilson Thomas, and Sir Georg Solti. Among the many operatic roles Mr. Lopardo has made his own are Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor, the Duke in Rigoletto, Alfredo in La Traviata, and Lenski in Eugene Onegin. He has also won acclaim in the Mozart repertoire and the bel canto roles of Bellini, Donizetti and Rossini. He has graced the stages of such prestigious houses as Teatro alla Scala, Opera National de Paris, Bavarian State Opera, Royal Opera—Covent Garden, Vienna State Opera, Teatro Municipal de São Paulo, Santa Fe Opera, Salzburg Festival, and Glyndebourne Festival.
During the 2003-04 season Mr. Lopardo can be heard as the Duke in Rigoletto at the Metropolitan Opera and as Rodolfo in La Bohème for The Dallas Opera. He also joins the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra for performances of the Berlioz Requiem.
Last season, Mr. Lopardo appeared as Riccardo in Un ballo in maschera at the Pittsburgh Opera, Alfredo in La Traviata at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Rodolfo in La Bohème, Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor, and Alfredo at the Metropolitan Opera.
On the concert platform, Mr. Lopardo has performed the Verdi
Requiem with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the London Symphony
Orchestra (which was televised), and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra;
the Mozart Requiem with the Berlin Philharmonic at La Scala;
Berlioz’ Requiem, Carmina Burana, and Falstaff
with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in both Boston and at the Tanglewood
Festival; Beethoven Symphony No. 9 with the San Francisco Symphony
Orchestra and with the Cleveland Orchestra at the Blossom Festival; Rossini’s
Stabat Mater with the Philadelphia Orchestra; and Carmina
Burana with the Berlin Philharmonic.
Mr. Lopardo’s discography includes Mozart’s Requiem and Don Giovanni with Muti for EMI, Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia and L’Italiana in Algeri with Abbado for Deutsche Grammophon, Verdi’s Falstaff with Sir Colin Davis for BMG, Rossini’s Semiramide and Il Signor Bruschino with Jon Marin for Deutsche Grammophon, and Donizetti’s Don Pasquale with Abbado for BMG. He has also recorded Orff’s Carmina Burana with Andre Previn for Deutsche Grammophon and can be seen on this label’s laser of the Mozart of the Mozart C Minor Mass with Leonard Bernstein. Mr. Lopardo appears on the Deutsche Grammophon video of Falstaff conducted by James Levine. He can also be seen and heard as Alfredo in La Traviata (on CD and video) and Ferrando in Cosi fan tutte with Solti on Decca.
Frank Lopardo was born in New York and studied with Dr. Robert White, Jr. who remains his vocal mentor today.
