Giovanni Battista Parodi Bass

Biography

Born in Genoa, Giovanni Battista Parodi began his musical studies in 1992 and continued them in 1997 with Roberto Negri at the Accademia di Palazzo Ducale. In 1999 he joined the Scala Opera Academy in Milan, where he made his debut in Fidelio and Tosca, both conducted by Riccardo Muti, and in Adriana Lecouvreur. He also sang Verdi's Requiem, La Bohème, Le Trouvère, La Traviata, Un bal masqué, Macbeth, Le Barbier de Séville, Otello and Iphigénie en Aulide. He has also sung in La Bohème, Otello, Le Barbier de Séville, Les Lombards à la première croisade and Lucia di Lammermoor at the Teatro Comunale in Florence. He has sung regularly in Bologna, Trieste, Rome, Verona, Turin, Genoa, Parma, Bilbao, Amsterdam and Catania in roles such as Simon Boccanegra, Poliuto, La Bohème, Ernani, Macbeth, Manon, Les Capulet et les Montaigu.

He has sung Rigoletto and Un bal masqué at London's Royal Opera House and La Calisto, Don Giovanni and Rossini's Stabat Mater at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. He has sung the role of Colline (La Bohème) at La Scala in Milan, in Paris, Turin, Rome, Naples, Oslo, Brussels and São Paulo, Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio and Attila in Parma, Le Trouvère in Bregenz, La Somnambule and La Calisto in Vienna.

Recent and future engagements include La Walkyrie, Fidelio, Les Maîtres chanteurs de Nuremberg, Le Barbier de Séville, Sémiramis, La Somnambule, Aida, Guillaume Tell, Bianca and Falliero and L'Ami Fritz at the Tiroler Festspiele Erl, Un bal masqué in Toronto, Le Trouvère in São Paulo, Carmen in Barcelona, Falstaff at La Scala in Milan, Budapest and Vicenza, Tosca in Genoa, Nabucco in Quebec, Falstaff at Lincoln Center in New York, Fabio Vacchi's Jeanne Dark at Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Otello in Trieste, Macbeth at Opéra de Saint-Étienne, the Verdi "Nostalgia" project at La Monnaie in Brussels.

At the Opéra national de Paris: Les Capulet et les Montaigu (Lorenzo), 2004; Otello (Lodovico), 2004; La Bohème (Colline), 2005, 2009; Les Capulet et les Montaigu (Capellio), 2008.