Massimo Altieri

The tenor Massimo Altieri was born in Rovigo and graduated in 2004 from the Bologna Conservatory, where he studied classical guitar. He began intensive singing studies the same year, as a member of the Coro Polifonico Città di Rovigo. Since 2007 he has worked with leading early-music groups and other prestigious ensembles: these include La Compagnia del Madrigale and Cantica Symphonia under Giuseppe Maletto, Cantar Lontano (Marco Mencoboni), De labyrintho (Walter Testolin), i Disinvolti (Massimo Lombardi), Odhecaton (Paolo Da Col), Ensemble Arte Musica (Francesco Cera), Coro e Orchestra Ghislieri (Giulio Prandi), Modo Antiquo (Federico Maria Sardelli), Accademia d’Arcadia (Alessandra Rossi Lürig), La Venexiana (Davide Pozzi), Ars Cantica (Marco Berrini), Coro Costanzo Porta and Orchestra Cremona Antiqua (Antonio Greco), Nova Ars Cantandi (Giovanni Acciai), laBarocca (Ruben Jais), Il Canto di Orfeo and Les Musiciens du Prince – Monaco (Gianluca Capuano), La fonte musica (Michele Pasotti), Concerto Italiano (Rinaldo Alessandrini) and Accademia Bizantina (Ottavio Dantone).

In 2013 Massimo Altieri became a member of the Coro della Radiotelevisione svizzera. With this group and the ensemble I Barocchisti, directed by Diego Fasolis, he has appeared in a wide repertory, including solo parts. In 2016 he was a soloist in Monteverdi’s Vespro della Beata Vergine at the Vicenza in Lirica Festival and at the Frari church in Venice. In 2017 he made his debut at the Schwetzingen Festival with La Venexiana under Davide Pozzi in Monteverdi’s three surviving operas, singing roles including Giove and Eumete in Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria. His solo performances since have included Mozart’s Requiem and Handel’s Messiah with the Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana, First Shepherd (L’Orfeo) under Ottavio Dantone in Ravenna and Ferrara, and, in the 2022/23 season, Monteverdi’s Vespro della Beata Vergine with La fonte musica at the Vienna Konzerthaus, Tempo in Handel’s Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno under Fasolis at the Opéra de Lausanne and Nicola in Vanni Moretto’s De vernuftige edelman Don Quichot van La Mancha, an opera composed for Opera2Day which has been performed in several theatres in the Netherlands.

Massimo Altieri is a member of Walter Testolin’s ensemble RossoPorpora, with which he has recorded the album L’amoroso & crudo stile, dedicated to the music of Luca Marenzio, and Monteverdi’s Sixth Book of Madrigals. He also appears with La fonte musica on the four-CD box set of the collected works of the early Renaissance composer Zacara da Teramo; this recording has won numerous prestigious prizes.