From winning the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2023 to appearing on the major opera stages

Born in 1994, Adolfo Corrado trained as a theater artist at the Augusto Zucchi School of Theater and Film Acting in Rome. He subsequently began his musical studies at the Tito Schipa Conservatory of Music in Lecce, where he perfected his skills under the guidance of Gianluca Belfiori. He continued his training at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino as a young artist in the Young Artist Project, coordinated by Gianni Tangucci.

He won the 49th edition of the Toti Dal Monte International Competition 2021, winning the role of Don Pasquale in Donizetti's opera of the same name. He won the 73rd edition of the As.Li.Co. International Competition 2022, winning the role of Leporello in Mozart's opera Don Giovanni. In 2023, he won the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Award.

More recently he has been engaged in theatres such as: Petruzzelli in Bari (Donizetti's Don Pasquale, Rossini's The Barber of Seville, Puccini's La Bohème), La Fenice in Venice (Verdi's I Lombardi alla Prima Crociata, La Bohème, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony), Regio in Turin (Puccini's Turandot; Salieri's The School of the Jealous; Berlioz's Lélio), Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex; Giordano's Siberia; Puccini's Tosca), Salzburger Festspiele (Tosca), Palau de Les Arts Reina Sofia (Mozart's Don Giovanni), Scala in Milan (Giordano's Andrea Chénier), Festival della Valle d'Itria in Martina Franca (Rossini's The Turk in Italy); Comunale in Bologna (Rossini's Le Comte Ory); Donizetti Festival in Bergamo (Alfredo the Great), Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago (La Bohème), San Carlo Theatre in Naples (Mozart's Mass in C Minor); Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse (Rossini's La Cenerentola), Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège (Bellini's I Capuleti ei Montecchi); Opéra de Rouen (Verdi's Aida), and Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia (Verdi's Il Trovatore). He sang Il Turco in Italia in Pisa; Bellini's Norma at the Opera de Toulouse; Rossini's L'Italiana in Algeri at the Rome Opera; and Bellini's I Puritani in concert at the Tiroler Festspiele Erl. He collaborates with conductors Daniel Oren, Zubin Mehta, Maurizio Benini, Gianandrea Noseda, Renato Palumbo, Daniele Gatti, Jordi Bernàcer, Sebastiano Rolli, Stefano Montanari, and Nikolas Nägele.

On the concert front, he also recently performed the Ninth Symphony for the opening of the MiTo Festival, conducted by Michele Spotti, and Verdi's Requiem Mass with the Milan Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Michele Gamba.

He made his debut with the Fondazione Arena in the Amphitheatre during the 99th Opera Festival 2022 with Verdi's Nabucco (High Priest of Belo); he returns to inaugurate the 2025 Symphony Season for the 50th anniversary of the reopening of the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona.