Regarded as one of the most elegant and complete belcanto singers on the opera
stage today, he has appeared on the world’s greatest stages: Teatro alla Scala in
Milan, Metropolitan Opera in New York, Chicago Lyric Opera, Wiener Staatsoper,
Bayerishe Staatsoper in Munich, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, Rossini
Opera Festival in Pesaro, Opera di Roma, Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, Zurich
Opernhaus, Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Hamburgische Staatsoper, Teatro Regio in
Turin, Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Teatro Comunale in Bologna, Teatro Real in
Madrid, Verdi Festival in Parma, Palau de Les Arts in Valencia, Teatro La Fenice in
Venice, etc…
He works regularly with the most important Conductors and Directors of today,
among which: Roberto Abbado, Richard Bonynge, Riccardo Chailly, Myung-Whun
Chung, Sir Colin Davis, Hugo de Ana, Giancarlo del Monaco, Sir John Eliot
Gardiner, Davide Livermore, Michele Mariotti, David McVicar, Zubin Mehta,
Riccardo Muti, Kent Nagano, John Nelson, Gianandrea Noseda, Daniel Oren,
Antonio Pappano, Pier Luigi Pizzi, Michel Plasson, Georges Pretre, Sir Simon
Rattle, Luca Ronconi, Claudio Scimone, Jeffrey Tate, Alberto Zedda, etc…
Having dominated the most prestigeous international stages in the belcanto
repertoire (Bellini, Rossini, Donizetti) in more recent years he triumphed in: La
Damnation de Faust with San Francisco Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Welsh
National Opera, Philadelphia Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Toronto
Symphony, BBC Philharmonic and at the Amsterdam Konzertgebouw; Benvenuto
Cellini with London Symphony Orchestra; Norma (Pollione) at the Accademia di
Santa Cecilia in Rome, in Barcellona, Venice, Munchen, Liège and Bilbao; Das
Lied von der Erde at Carnegie Hall in New York; Verdi's Messa da Requiem in
Lima, Palermo and Florence; I vespri siciliani in Turin and, in the french version, in
Naples, Bilbao and Valencia; Les Huguenots in Strasbourg; Un ballo in
maschera in Turino and Bologna; Verdi's Otello at La Fenice in Venice (as well as
on a Japan tour and at Palazzo Ducale conducted by Myung-Whun Chung), in
Valencia, Turin, Genova, Seville, Madrid, London, Pamplona, Naples and
Paris; Aida in Sao Paulo in Brasil, at the Arena di Verona and in Madrid; Peter
Grimes at Santa Cecilia and in Valencia; Les Troyens at La Scala in Milan; La
forza del destino in Valencia and Dresden; Il Trovatore in Venice, La Coruna and
London; Luisa Miller in Liège; Cavalleria rusticana/Pagliacci in Bilbao; Samson
et Dalila in Turin, Valencia, Seville, Moscow and at the Metropolitan Opera in New
York; Manon Lescaut in Bilbao, Turin, Barcelona, Dallas and in Japan with the
Rome Opera; Andrea Chénier in Rome and Bilbao; Turandot in concert in Tel Aviv
and, in the Zeffirelli production, at the Arena di Verona.
He made his European debut as a Conductor at the Donizetti Festival in Bergamo
with Maria di Rohan (published on dvd by Bongiovanni) and has conducted Il
barbiere di Siviglia at La Fenice in Venice and a Concert at the Opéra de Nice.
Kunde’s discography includes Berlioz's Les Troyens at the Théâtre du Châtelet
(Opus Arte DVD, Gramophone magazine’s ‘DVD of the Year’), Benvenuto
Cellini (Virgin Classics CD, Gramophone’s ‘Opera Recording of the
Year’), Benvenuto Cellini with Sir Colin Davis (LSO Live CD), and
Verdi's Otello from Palazzo Ducale in Venice (Unitel DVD).
Among his recent and future engagements: Ernani in Lisbona, Piacenza, Ferrara
and Reggio Emilia; Turandot, Otello, Luisa Miller and Andrea Chénier at Teatro
Comunale in Bologna; La forza del destino at the Verdi Festival in Parma; Il
Trovatore and Aida at the Los Angeles Opera; Turandot at Teatro Real in Madrid,
at the Arena di Verona, at the Opéra de Paris at the Puccini Festival in Torre del
Lago; Otello at the Liceu in Barcellona, at the Wiener Staatsoper, in Munchen, at
Covent Garden in London, in Dresden, Piacenza, Modena, Reggio Emilia, at Teatro
dell’Opera in Rome, at Teatro Bellini di Catania and at the Colòn in Buenos
Aires; Aida, Andrea Chénier and Il Trovatore in Vienna; Le Prophète in Berlin;Don
Carlos in Liège; Verdi's Messa da Requiem conducted by Zubin Mehta in Tel
Aviv; Aida, Turandot, La fanciulla del west and Die große Stille in Hamburg; I
Pagliacci in Dresden, Parma, Bologna and Venice; Aida at Cincinnati Opera, at
Teatro dell’Opera in Rome and at the Arena di Verona; Les Troyens in Munich; Il
Tabarro (Luigi) and Tosca at Teatro dell’Opera in Rome; La Juive and Andrea
Chènier at Teatro Regio in Turin; Billy Bud at the Wiener Staatsoper; Andrea
Chénier in Parma at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin; Stiffelio in Piacenza, Modena
and Reggio Emilia
