Charles Castronovo

American tenor Charles Castronovo made his Company debut in 2008 as Nadir in The Pearl Fishers. He began his career at Los Angeles Opera as a Resident Artist and made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in 1999 as Beppe in Pagliacci.  Recent appearances include developing the role of Mario Ruoppolo in the world premiere of Il Postino at Los Angeles Opera, Belmonte in The Abduction from the Seraglio at Teatro dell’ Opera di Roma, Gennaro in Lucrezia Borgia, Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni and Belmonte for Bayerische Staatsoper, Don Ottavio at San Francisco Opera and Los Angeles Opera, Nemorino in The Elixir of Love for Opéra de Nice, Romeo in Romeo and Juliet for The Dallas Opera, Tamino in The Magic Flute for Santa Fe Opera, San Francisco Opera and Vienna Staatsoper, Alfredo in La traviata for the Opera Company of Philadelphia and the Royal Opera , Covent Garden, Elvino in La Sonnambula at Michigan Opera Theatre, the title role of Faust and Rodolfo in La bohème for Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin, Ferrando in Così fan tutte for Royal Opera, Covent Garden, the Duke in Rigoletto in Bordeaux and Tom Rakewell in Stravinsky’s The Rake's Progress for Théâtre de la Monnaie, Brussels and Royal Opera, Covent Garden.