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Bass-baritone

Mattia Venni

Brescia

Italy

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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 Crespel in Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann at Santa Monica College before all was paused due to the pandemic.

In 2020 he enrolled in UCLA after being accepted to three prestigious institutions: Conservatory Giuseppe Verdi in Milan, Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome, and the Herb Alpert School of Music at UCLA. In 2021 he performed the role of Don Bartolo in UCLA opera’s filmed version of Le nozze di Figaro and in June 2022 he performed the role of Dulcamara in Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’Amore with Opera UCLA directed by James Darrah.

In November 2022 Mattia sang the role of Polyphemus in Handel’s Acis and Galatea, directed by Crystal Manich and conducted by Dr. James Bass. Mattia graduated in June 2023 with a Bachelor of Music from UCLA’s Herb Alpert School of Music. In July 2023 he made his professional debut at the Lincoln Center New York City in the title role of Crispino in Crispino e la Comare with Teatro Nuovo, to widespread critical acclaim (under the direction of Will Crutchfield).

In November 2023 Mattia placed first at the International Lyric competition of the city of Genova, and he was also awarded with the special jury Giuseppe Taddei price.

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