Charles Castronovo Tenor

Biography

Born in New York, Charles Castronovo made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera as Beppe (Pagliacci). He soon moved on to the roles of Fenton (Falstaff), Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni), Ferrando (Così fan tutte), Tamino (The Magic Flute), Nemorino (The Elixir of Love), Alfredo Germont (La Traviata), the title role in Faust, Rodolfo (La Bohème), Nadir (Les Pêcheurs de perles), Belmonte (L'Enlèvement au sérail), the Duke of Mantua (Rigoletto), Tom Rakewell (The Rake's Progress), Elvino (La Somnambule), Edgardo (Lucia di Lammermoor).

In 2010 he created the title role in Daniel Catán's opera Il Postino in Los Angeles alongside Plácido Domingo. He made his debut at the Salzburg Festival in L'Enlèvement au sérail, at the Aix-en-Provence Festival and the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona in La Traviata, at the Chicago Opera in The Magic Flute, at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw in Les Pêcheurs de perles and at the Verbier Festival in La Damnation de Faust.

In recent years he has sung Don José (Carmen) in Vienna and Chicago, Faust (La Damnation de Faust) in Salzburg, Nemorino in Chicago, Rodolfo in New York, Berlin and Munich, Pinkerton (Madame Butterfly) in Munich, Vienna and Madrid, Riccardo/Gustavo (Un bal masqué) in Munich and New York, Alfredo Germont in New York, Don Ottavio in London, the title roles of Don Carlo in Munich and Don Carlos in Geneva, Des Grieux (Manon) in Vienna, Giasone (Medea) in Berlin, the title roles of Ernani and Mario Cavaradossi (Tosca) in Munich, Gabriele Adorno (Simon Boccanegra) in Milan. In the 2024-2025 season, his roles include Riccardo / Gustavo in Zurich and Munich, Don José in London, Max (Le Franc-tireur) in Baden-Baden and at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, and Macduff (Macbeth) in Salzburg.

At the Opéra national de Paris: Falstaff (Fenton), 2003; The Magic Flute (Tamino), 2004; L'Élixir d'amour (Nemorino), 2006, 2009; Mireille (Vincent), 2009; The Rake's Progress (Tom Rakewell), 2012; La Traviata (Alfredo Germont), 2018; Simon Boccanegra (Gabriele Adorno), 2024.

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