Biography
Tonio DiPaolo's prominent career earns the tenor accolades of praise on stages throughout North America and Europe, including the Metropolitan Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Canadian Opera Company, Houston Grand Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Washington Opera, Seattle Opera and San Francisco Opera. The New York Times says, “Tonio DiPaolo has a big, authentic, and rich-sounding tenor voice,” and The Washington Post exclaims, “Tonio DiPaolo shows comic gifts and sheer acting ability that one cannot take for granted in tenors. He also has a voice like spun gold.”
Noted operatic engagements from the past two season include Calaf in Turandot with Kentucky Opera; Radames in Aida with Opera Carolina; Alfred in Die Fledermaus with Arizona Opera, Austin Lyric Opera and Opera New Jersey; and Canio in I Pagliacci with Opera de Quebec. In the 2009-2010 season and beyond, he performs Canio in I Pagliacci with Opera Omaha, Opera Cleveland, and Opera Lyra Ottawa, as well as Calaf in Turandot at the Arizona Opera and Opera Lyra Ottawa.
Additional recent engagements include Cavaradossi in Tosca with Opera Ontario, Radames in Aida at Atlanta Opera, Calaf in Turandot and Dick Johnson in La Fanciulla del West at the Austin Lyric Opera, Duke in Rigoletto at the Arizona Opera, Don José in Carmen at Central City Opera, and Calaf in Turandot and Don José in Carmen with Florentine Opera of Milwaukee.
A popular figure on the concert stages in many metropolitan areas, Mr. DiPaolo made his debut with the London Symphony Orchestra as a soloist in the Verdi Requiem, under the direction of Rafeal Fruebeck de Burgos, a concert which later traveled to Rouen. He has also sung the Requiem at his debut at the Edinburgh Festival, under the baton of James Conlon; at Carnegie Hall with the American Symphony Orchestra, directed by John Nelson; and under Semyon Bychkov, leading the Buffalo Philharmonic. The tenor has appeared at the Spoleto festival in Charleston, South Carolina, and Spoleto, Italy, as well as at the Ravinia festival and the Aspen Music festival.
Mr. DiPaolo is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music, and the recipient of a number of awards, including grants from the National Institute for Music Theatre and the Richard Tucker Foundation.
