Stefano La Colla
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Stefano La Colla is an Italian tenor who has given recitals and performed in opera internationally.


Biography

La Colla was born in Turin, but lived in Alcamo between the ages of 12 and 23. He started his studies at the Conservatorio Pietro Mascagni in
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and trained under the guide of the
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and later with the
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Carlo Meliciani. In 2002 he won a scholarship at the Accademia d’alto Perfezionamento del Repertorio Pucciniano of Torre del Lago, where he attended its courses with Magda Olivero,
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and Raina Kabaivanska. Afterwards he performed with Katia Ricciarelli at the Teatro Verdi of Pisa in a gala event organized by the
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. After he debuted in 2008 with Aida at the Theatre Goldoni in Leghorn, he continued his artistic experience in the traditional theatres of Italian cities such as Novara, Savona, Chieti, Reggio Emilia, Pisa, Lucca, Livorno, Busseto and Brescia. His international career started in 2011 with Turandot in
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(where he made his debut with 16 recitals), then in Dortmund, Leipzig, Saint Petersburg, St. Gallen, Zagabria, and Bucarest. In 2014 he performed in some of the great European opera houses in Hamburg, Berlin, Munich, Amsterdam, Oslo, Dresden and Vienna. In Italy he has performed several times at
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in Milan as well as in Rome, Naples and Verona.


Awards

* 2002: winner of a scholarship at the Accademia d’Alto Perfezionamento del Repertorio Pucciniano di Torre del Lago * 2006: winner of the International Contest Ismaele Voltolini at Buscoldo (Mantua)


Performances

2014 * Manon Lescaut (Renato Des Grieux) Oper Leipzig (February–May) * La Gioconda (Enzo Grimaldi) Theater St. Gallen (February–May) * Tosca (Cavaradossi) Deutsche Oper Berlin (May) * Macbeth (Macduff) Opera Wrocławska (June) * Un ballo in maschera (Riccardo) Theater Dortmund (Sept.-Oct.) * Manon Lescaut (Il Cavaliere des Grieux) at the Mikhailovsky Theatre of Saint Petersburg (Oct. 2014 – Apr. 2015) 2015 * Manon Lescaut (Il Cavaliere des Grieux) Oper Leipzig (Jan.–Apr.) * Turandot (Calaf) Teatro di San Carlo, Naples (March–April) * Tosca (Cavaradossi) Teatro dell'Opera di Roma (March–June) * Turandot (Calaf)
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, Milan (May) * Cavalleria rusticana (Turiddu) Teatro alla Scala, Milan (June) * Nabucco (Ismaele) Deutsche Oper Berlin (June) * Tosca (Cavaradossi) Teatro San Carlo, Naples (July) * Turandot (Calaf) Teatro dell'Opera of Rome (July–August) * Turandot (Calaf) Deutsche Oper Berlin (Sept.-Nov.) * Manon Lescaut (Il Cavaliere des Grieux) Deutsche Oper Berlin (November 2015 – March 2016) * Tosca (Cavaradossi) Teatro dell'Opera of Rome (December) 2016 * Tosca (Cavaradossi) Theater St Gallen (January–May) * Concert (Tenore) Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Düsseldorf (March) * Tosca (Cavaradossi) Opéra de Toulon (April) * Madama Butterfly (F B Pinkerton) Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin (April–May) * Le Cid (Rodrigue) Theater St Gallen (June–July) * Aida (Radamès) Fondazione Arena di Verona (June–August) * Aida (Radamès) Teatro di San Carlo, Naples (July–August) * Turandot (Calaf) Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna (September 2016 – March 2017) * Manon Lescaut (Il Cavaliere Renato des Grieux)
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, Amsterdam (October) * Turandot (Il principe ignoto) Bayerische Staatsoper of Munich (December) 2017 * Il trovatore Teatro Calderón, Valladolid (February) * Cavalleria rusticana (Turiddu) Opéra National du Rhin, Strasburg (June) * Pagliacci (Canio) Opéra National du Rhin, Strasburg (June) * Turandot (Calaf) Festival Puccini 2017 di Torre del Lago (July) * Aida (Radamès) Macerata Opera Festival (July–August) * Nabucco (Ismaele) Teatro alla Scala, Milan (Oct.–Nov.)


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Stefano La Colla
Operabase {{DEFAULTSORT:La Colla, Stefano Year of birth missing (living people) Living people 21st-century Italian male opera singers Italian tenors People from Alcamo