Ambrogio Maestri

Born in Pavia, Ambrogio Maestri studied piano and voice under Umberto Grilli. He made his professional debut in 2001 in the title role of Falstaff at La Scala, Milan and at Teatro Verdi, Busseto under Riccardo Muti.

Additional engagements at La Scala have included the title roles of Don Pasquale and Gianni Schicchi, Jago (Otello), Dulcamara (L'elisir d'amore), Renato (Un ballo in maschera), Don Carlo di Vargas (La forza del destino) and Giorgio Germont (La traviata). Elsewhere, Maestri has performed at the Metropolitan Opera, Paris Opera, Vienna State Opera, Bavarian State Opera and Deutsche Oper Berlin, in roles including Count of Luna (Il trovatore), Amonasro (Aida), the title roles of Simon Boccanegra, Rigoletto and Nabucco, Tonio and Alfio (Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci), Gérard (Andrea Chénier) and Mamma Agata (Viva la mamma). 

He has worked with conductors including Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Chailly, Daniele Gatti, Daniel Oren, Fabio Luisi, Antonio Pappano, Christian Thielemann, Jeffrey Tate, James Levine, Nello Santi, Marcello Viotti, Marco Armiliato, Gianandrea Noseda and Daniel Harding, and directors including Franco Zeffirelli, Robert Carsen, Graham Vick, Peter Stein, Bob Wilson, Laurent Pelly, Mario Martone, Hugo De Ana, Bartlett Sher, Damiano Michieletto and Davide Livermore. 

2023/24 Season engagements include Don Pasquale and Il trittico at Vienna State Opera, Tosca in Tokyo and Nagoya, Adriana Lecouvreur at Paris Opera and Gran Teatre del Liceu, L’elisir d’amore at Bavarian State Opera and Don Pasquale in Milan.