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“His light yet sonorous voice lent itself well to Bel Canto singing, and he is one of the era’s top interpreters. He had excellent agility as he moved through the fioritura and had no issues sending his voice over the orchestra. Most impressive was his use of dynamics and head voice. He went from full-throated fortes to the gentlest pianissimos with utmost surety." Operawire
The Italo-Argentinian tenor Santiago Ballerini is recognized as one of the leading tenors in the bel canto repertoire, having performed at many of the major opera houses in North and South America, including the Teatro Municipal de Santiago, the Teatro Colón de Buenos Aires, the Canadian Opera Company, the Bellas Artes Opera, and The Dallas Opera, as well as alongside major international orchestras and opera houses in Europe, such as the Teatro Regio di Torino, the Opéra National de Bordeaux, the Teatro Real Madrid, and the Gran Teatre del Liceu, among others.
The 2024/25 season features his return to the Atlanta Opera, where he will perform as Tamino in The Magic Flute. He will also take on leading roles as Alfredo Germont in a production of La Traviata (Fundación Baluarte, Pamplona) and Fernando in Doña Francisquita (Teatro Campoamor, Oviedo). Ballerini will participate in three productions of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, with the Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla, the Orquesta y Coro de la Comunidad de Madrid, and at the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari. Additional highlights include performances at the Teatro Filarmonico di Verona with Salieri’s La Passione di Gesù Cristo and a special production of Mozart’s Coronation Mass at the Granada Cathedral with the Orquesta Ciudad de Granada.
Among his main roles are Ernesto (Don Pasquale), Count Almaviva (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Don Narciso (Il turco in Italia), Lindoro (L'italiana in Algeri), Italian Singer (Der Rosenkavalier), Jünge Graf (Die Soldaten), Nemorino (L'elisir d'amore), Tonio (La fille du régiment), Gualtiero (Il pirata), Argiro (Tancredi), Fenton (Falstaff), Prometheus (Prometeo by Luigi Nono), Arbace (Idomeneo), Belmonte (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Lord Percy (Anna Bolena), Gennaro (Lucrezia Borgia), Ferrando (Così fan tutte), Alfred (Die Fledermaus), Tebaldo (I Capuleti e i Montecchi), Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni), Roméo (Roméo et Juliette), Jaquino (Fidelio), and Tamino (Die Zauberflöte).
Ballerini has sung in theatres such as the Canadian Opera Company, Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Teatro Regio di Torino, Opéra de Toulon, Opera Saratoga, Opéra National de Bordeaux, ABAO Bilbao, Atlanta Opera, Teatro Nuovo (New York Performing Arts Centre), Teatro Solís in Montevideo, and Teatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro, among others.
