Paride Cataldo

In the current season Paride Cataldo debuts as Alfredo Germont La traviata at Deutsche Oper am Rhein and Shangyin Opera, Shanghai, as Duca di Mantova Rigoletto at Teatro Fraschini di Pavia, Teatro Sociale di Como, Teatro Donizetti, and the Polish National Opera.

Future season brings him a house debut with New National Theatre Tokyo.

Recent appearances include a debut at Teatro alla Scala as Un Servo d’Amelia Un Ballo in Maschera, Icilio Nostalgia at La Monnaie de Bruxelles, Don Carlo at Teatro Ponchielli di Cremona and Teatro Fraschini di Pavia, Rodolfo La bohème at the Festival Internazionale delle Arti, Alfredo Germont in the concert version of La traviata with Orquesta Clasica Santa Cecilia, Gabriele D’Annunzio in the world premiere of Willem Jeths’ Ritratto with the Dutch National Opera, Ramírez’ Misa Criolla at Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova, Alfredo La Traviata at Teatro Politeama Greco di Lecce and on tour with Teatro Regio di Parma, Ben Afar Al’Aswad in Bradshaw’s Zarqa al-Yamama with the Arabian Opera, the title role in Werther with the Irish National Opera in Dublin at Ireland’s most representative theaters: at the An Grianan Theater in Letterkenny, at the Solstice Arts Center Theater in Navan, at the Town Hall Theater in Galway, at the Lime Tree Theater in Limerick, at the An Tain Theater in Dundalk, at the Glor Theater in Ennis, at the Everyman Theater in Cork, at the Theater Royal in Waterford, the Watergate Theater in Kilkenny and the Pavilion Theater in Dun Laoghaire.

Previous engagements include Rodolfo La Bohème at the Festival Internazionale delle Arti, the title role of Gabriele D’Annunzio at the world premiere of Ritratto by Willem Jeths, Alfredo La Traviata at Teatro Regio of Parma and at Lecce, various concerts at the Royal Opera House and at the Polish National Opera.

Cataldo won the Verdi Prize at the 2022 Tenor Viñas International Singing Contest in Barcelona, second prize at the 2021 Concorso Lirico Internazionale Ottavio Ziino in Rome and first prize at the 2018 L’Assoluta Virginia Zeani Royal Voice Competition in Romania.

Paride, born in Italy, studied opera singing for years with his father. In 2015, he met his current teacher, tenor Salvatore Cordella, who admitted him to his Accademia Germogli d’Arte.