Natale de Carolis is an Italian opera

Opera

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tic baritone

Baritone

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 who has had an active career in major opera house

Opera house

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s internationally since the early 1980s. He is particularly associated with the works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music...

 and Gioachino Rossini. He is married to soprano Barbara Frittoli

Barbara Frittoli

Barbara Frittoli is an Italian operatic soprano who has sung leading roles in opera houses throughout Europe and in the United States. She was born in Milan and graduated from the Milan Conservatory...

.

Born in Anagni

Anagni

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, Carolis studied singing with Renato Guelfi and Maria Vittoria. After winning the Toti dal Monte Singing Competition in Treviso, he made his profesional opera debut in 1983 as Don Basilio in Rossini's The Barber of Seville

The Barber of Seville

The Barber of Seville, or The Futile Precaution is an opera buffa in two acts by Gioachino Rossini with a libretto by Cesare Sterbini. The libretto was based on Pierre Beaumarchais's comedy Le Barbier de Séville , which was originally an opéra comique, or a mixture of spoken play with music...

at the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale in Spoleto for the Festival dei Due Mondi

Festival dei Due Mondi

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. In 1987 he made his debut at La Scala

La Scala

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 as Masetto in Mozart's Don Giovanni

Don Giovanni

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under conductor Riccardo Muti

Riccardo Muti

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. He made his United States debut in 1988 as Figaro in The Marriage of Figaro

The Marriage of Figaro

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at the Metropolitan Opera

Metropolitan Opera

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. He has since performed leading roles at the Berlin State Opera

Berlin State Opera

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, the Cologne Opera

Cologne Opera

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, the Frankfurt Opera, the Glyndebourne Festival Opera

Glyndebourne Festival Opera

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, the Israeli Opera, La Fenice

La Fenice

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, the New National Theatre Tokyo, Opera Australia

Opera Australia

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, the Rossini Opera Festival

Rossini Opera Festival

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, the Royal Opera House

Royal Opera House

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 in London, the Teatro Colón, the Teatro Comunale di Bologna

Teatro Comunale di Bologna

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, the Teatro Comunale Florence

Teatro Comunale Florence

The Teatro Comunale di Firenze is an opera house in Florence, Italy. It was originally built as the open-air amphitheatre, the Politeama Fiorentino Vittorio Emanuele which was inaugurated on 17 May 1862 with a production of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor and which seated 6,000 people...

, the Teatro di San Carlo

Teatro di San Carlo

The Real Teatro di San Carlo is an opera house in Naples, Italy. It is the oldest continuously active such venue in Europe.Founded by the Bourbon Charles VII of Naples of the Spanish branch of the dynasty, the theatre was inaugurated on 4 November 1737 — the king's name day — with a performance...

, and the Vienna State Opera

Vienna State Opera

The Vienna State Opera is an opera house – and opera company – with a history dating back to the mid-19th century. It is located in the centre of Vienna, Austria. It was originally called the Vienna Court Opera . In 1920, with the replacement of the Habsburg Monarchy by the First Austrian...

among others.