Mauro Bonfanti

Baritone, music and voice teacher

Opera baritone, music teacher, vocal technique teacher and choir director.

Graduated with top marks and honors in opera singing at the Conservatory of Aosta (Italy) and also graduated with top marks and honors in musical dramaturgy at the State University of Turin (Italy).

He studied opera singing privately with singers with international careers such as Bianca Berini (mezzo-soprano of the Metropolitan Opera in New York) and the baritone Gianpiero Mastromei.

He had the honor of being one of the last students of Luciano PAVAROTTI, for whom he also sang two productions of Puccini's opera "La Boheme", and a concert in his honor at the Donizetti Theater in Bergamo.

Graduated from the Accademia del Maggio Fiorentino in Florence (teachers Bruno De Simone and Alessandra Rossi) and from the Academy of Specialization for opera singers of the Toscanini

Foundation in Parma (teacher Enzo Dara).

He attended Masterclasses with teachers such as Rockwell Blake, Renato Bruson (with whom he sang Verdi's "Falstaff"), Piernarciso Masi, Eva Mei and Alessandro Corbelli.In 21 years of activity as an opera singer he sang 40 operatic roles in 12 countries around the world.

His repertoire ranges from Rossini to Giuseppe Verdi up to Puccini.

He also sang with Andrea BOCELLI in a concert in the Sala Nervi in the Vatican with an audience of 4000 people.

He taught singing at the famous Italian television talent show "Amici" by Maria De Filippi.

His credit is for bringing the 2018 Overall Winner Alberto Urso to the broadcast and preparing it.

For 12 years he has dedicated himself daily to teaching opera singing.

His Masterclasses are numerous.

He is a Guest Professor at Qingdao State University (China).

In 2022 he obtained the Ob1 Visa for "extraordinary artistic abilities"

from the American Government.

In addition to already having concerts and operas in the United States to his credit ("Corsaro" by Verdi in Seattle), he currently teaches music at the "Sacred Heart" Private School in Clyde Hill (Wa), where he directs the student choir and collaborates with the adult choir.

The private singing teaching activity in America is also intense.

November 2024