In the 2024/2025 season, tenor Amadi Lagha took on numerous roles, including performances in "La Forza del Destino" (Montpellier), "La Fanciulla del West" (Bologna), "Cavalleria Rusticana" and "I Pagliacci" (Modena), "Il Trovatore" (NCPA Beijing and Teatro delle Muse in Ancona), "Carmen" (Carlo Felice in Genoa), and "Turandot" (Savonlinna Opera Festival).
Lagha's repertoire mainly consists of lyric-spinto tenor roles. Notably, in Verdi's works, he performed as Carlo VII in "Giovanna d'Arco" (Teatro Comunale di Modena and Reggio Emilia), Foresto in "Attila" (Opera di Tirana), Rodolfo in "Luisa Miller" (Verdi Festival in Parma), Manrico in "Il Trovatore" (Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari and Beijing), Gustavo III in "Un Ballo in Maschera" (Beijing), Don Alvaro in "La Forza del Destino" (Capitole de Toulouse), and Radames in "Aida" (Carlo Felice in Genoa, Le Corum in Montpellier).
Regarding Puccini, the role he has most frequently performed and achieved significant acclaim in is Calaf in "Turandot." He received high praise at the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago and at Teatro Verdi in Trieste, as well as at several international venues (Shanghai Opera, Les Arts in Valencia, NCPA in Beijing, Savonlinna Opera Festival, and La Monnaie in Brussels). He has also portrayed Mario Cavaradossi in "Tosca" (Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago, Le Corum in Montpellier, Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf), Pinkerton in "Madama Butterfly" (La Maestranza in Seville), and Dick Johnson in "La Fanciulla del West" (Teatro Regio in Turin and Teatro Comunale in Bologna). Additionally, Lagha is a celebrated interpreter of Don José in "Carmen" (Arena di Verona, Capitole in Toulouse, Marseille Opera, Savonlinna Opera Festival, Carlo Felice in Genoa, Hannover, and Leipzig), Canio in "I Pagliacci" (Teatro Verdi in Trieste, Teatro Pavarotti-Freni in Modena), and Turiddu in "Cavalleria Rusticana" (Teatro Lirico in Cagliari, Teatro Verdi in Salerno, Teatro Goldoni in Livorno, and Teatro Pavarotti-Freni in Modena). He has also performed as Rodolfo in "La Bohème" (Torre del Lago, Lecce, Metz, Tirana) and participated like soloist tenor in Verdi's "Messa da Requiem" (Teatro Verdi in Trieste).
Lagha has collaborated with esteemed conductors including Renato Palumbo, Donato Renzetti, Massimo Zanetti, Roberto Abbado, Paolo Arrivabeni, John Axelrod, Nikša Bareza, Andrea Battistoni, Jordi Benaçer, Gianpaolo Bisanti, Francesco Ivan Ciampa, Riccardo Frizza, Lü Jia, and Kazushi Ono…Among the directors he has worked with are : Plamen Kartaloff, Daniele Abbado, Roberto Andò, Hugo de Ana, Valentina Carrasco, Paul Curran, Paul Émile Fourny, Joseph Franconi Lee, Federico Grazzini, Jean Louis Granda, Yannis Kokkos, Pier Francesco Maestrini, Stephan Medcalf, and Pier Luigi Pizzi…
He began his musical journey by studying classical guitar and singing, later refining his skills at the Conservatoire in Paris under Alessandra Papadjiakou. Simultaneously, he earned a Master’s degree in music and musicology from Paris 8 University. He has won numerous singing competitions, including the Michelangelo Cupisti Award for Best Performer of the 2017 season at the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago. In 2023, he received the Caruso Tribute Prize in New York "for the excellence of his voice, his unique interpretative style, and his incomparable charisma."
