Born in Viterbo, he perfected his skills in Rome with Paola Leolini. In 2010, at just 24 years old, he won the first prize and the audience prize at the prestigious Hans Gabor Belvedere International Competition in Vienna and in the same year he took part in the Young Singers Project at the Salzburg Festival. From that moment on, his international career began, singing among other things the Count of Almaviva in Mercadante’s opera I due Figaro conducted by Riccardo Muti at the Whitsun Festival in Salzburg, at the Ravenna Festival and at the Teatro Real in Madrid.
He subsequently sang Alfredo at the New National Theatre in Tokyo conducted by Yves Abel, at the Filarmonico in Verona and at La Fenice in Venice; Nemorino at the Opera in Rome and at the Comunale in Bologna, at the Teatro Real in Madrid, at the Staatsoper in Berlin and in Graz; Fenton at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich under the direction of Daniel Harding, but also at La Scala in Milan, Tokyo, and at the San Carlo in Naples conducted by Pinchas Steinberg; at the Glyndebourne Festival conducted by Mark Elder; Tamino in Bari and Venice; Don Ottavio at the Chicago Lyric Opera conducted by Sir Andrew Davis, at the Royal Opera House in London conducted by Nicola Luisotti, at La Fenice in Venice, the Staatsoper in Hamburg and in Graz; Cassio conducted by Bertrand b and Billy at the Chicago Lyric Opera and with Sir Antonio Pappano at the Royal Opera House in London; Ismaele conducted by Riccardo Muti in Rome and Tokyo, Macduff, again under the direction of Maestro Muti, at the Rome Opera and at the Salzburg Festival.
He has sung Stravinsky's Le Rossignol and Tchaikovsky's Iolanta in concert, conducted by Ivor Bolton at the Salzburg Festival; Gounod's Messe Solennelle di Santa Cecilia conducted by Bertrand de Billy at the Vienna Musikverein; Schubert's Mass in F major conducted by Riccardo Muti in Chicago; Rossini's Stabat Mater conducted by Rolf Beck at the Schleswig-Holstein Festival and the Rheingau Festival
and conducted by Jesus Lopez Cobos at the Vatican and at Orvieto Cathedral; Mozart's Requiem conducted by Sir Antonio Pappano at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome; Penderecki’s Polish Requiem in Hamburg, conducted by the composer himself; Bach’s Magnificat, which was his debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Finally, with lieder programs, he has already debuted both at the Lucerne Festival and at the Wigmore Hall in London.
He began the 2018/2019 season singing for the first time in Verdi’s Requiem, first at the Konzerthaus Berlin and then at the San Carlo in Naples, always under the direction of Juraj Valcuha. He has just returned from the triumphant tour of the Rome Opera at the Bunka Kaikan in Tokyo (Alfredo in La Traviata directed by Sofia Coppola and costumes by Valentino), he participated in the inauguration of the symphonic season of the Fenice in Venice singing in Verdi’s Requiem under the direction of Myung-whun Chung. He sang the role of Macduff in Macbeth at the inaugural Verdi Festival at the Teatro Regio in Parma (broadcast live on RAI 5 and Radio 3) and took part in the Verdi Gala at the same theatre.
He sang for the first time at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in La Traviata directed by Francesco Micheli and debuted as the Duke of Mantua at the Teatro Giuseppe Verdi in Salerno conducted by Daniel Oren. Among his recent and future engagements, his debut in the title role in La clemenza di Tito at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, conducted by Federico Maria Sardelli, stands out. Recent engagements include: the Requiem Mass with Maestro Gatti at the Verdi Festival in Parma, Rigoletto in Stockholm and Trieste, Attila in Marseille and Tenerife, Mefistofele in Piacenza and Modena, Luisa Miller in Rome and Moscow, Madama Butterfly in Turin and Bologna, I Lombardi alla prima crociata and Il trovatore in Venice, Tosca in Macerata, Macbeth in Trieste and Bologna, Roméo et Juliette in Savonlinna, I Lombardi alla prima crociata at the Verdi Festival, Cavalleria rusticana in St. Louis and Vancouver, Idomeneo in Genoa, Norma in Macerata and Catania, La battaglia di Legnano in Parma and La traviata in Trieste
This season: the Requiem Mass, conducted by Maestro Abbado in Seoul and with the Milan Symphony Orchestra, Norma at the Teatro alla Scala, Macbeth at the Macerata Opera Festival and at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino.
Antonio Poli recorded Mercadante's I due Figaro and Macbeth, both under the direction of Riccardo Muti.
Auditorium of Milan
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