Biography
Italian bass-baritone Mattia Venni had a successful career in the film industry as a camera operator in Paris, France, and Los Angeles, California prior to switching careers in 2019. The New York Times’ Oussama Zahr said of Venni’s 2023 professional debut in Teatro Nuovo’s “Crispino e la Comare”, “Mattia Venni was a sensational Crispino — his handsome baritone and capacity for self-parody allowed him to evolve from the melodramatic sobs of an almost-suicide scene to the complacent patter of success”. In 2019 Venni enrolled in the music program at Pasadena City College where he performed as Mars in Offenbach’s Orphée aux enfers in 2019 and as Don Alfonso in Cosí fan tutte at Azusa Pacific University in 2020 (concert version due to the Covid-19 pandemic). Mattia was scheduled to perform as
Performance credits
Past performances 2022 — Yesterday
La Fille du régiment (The Daughter of the Regiment), Donizetti
parnassus societySulpice (Sergeant Sulpice)
View cast and crewCrispino e la comare (Crispino and the Fairy Godmother), Ricci, Luigi
Teatro NuovoCrispino
View cast and crewAcis and Galatea, Händel
Polyphemus
View cast and crewFeatured past performances
La Fille du régiment (The Daughter of the Regiment), Donizetti
parnassus societySulpice (Sergeant Sulpice)
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Crispino e la comare (Crispino and the Fairy Godmother), Ricci, Luigi
Teatro NuovoCrispino
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Biography
Italian bass-baritone Mattia Venni had a successful career in the film industry as a camera operator in Paris, France, and Los Angeles, California prior to switching careers in 2019. The New York Times’ Oussama Zahr said of Venni’s 2023 professional debut in Teatro Nuovo’s “Crispino e la Comare”, “Mattia Venni was a sensational Crispino — his handsome baritone and capacity for self-parody allowed him to evolve from the melodramatic sobs of an almost-suicide scene to the complacent patter of success”. In 2019 Venni enrolled in the music program at Pasadena City College where he performed as Mars in Offenbach’s Orphée aux enfers in 2019 and as Don Alfonso in Cosí fan tutte at Azusa Pacific University in 2020 (concert version due to the Covid-19 pandemic). Mattia was scheduled to perform as
