Frank Lopardo was born on 23 December 1957 and is an American operatic tenor who was born in Brentwood, New York.
12 Facts About Frank Lopardo
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Frank Lopardo attended the Music Academy of the West summer conservatory program in 1983 and 1984.
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Frank Lopardo made his North American debut as Tamino in Die Zauberflote with Opera Theater of St Louis.
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Frank Lopardo entered into a long-standing relationship with The Metropolitan Opera in New York in 1989 in the role of Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia.
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Frank Lopardo has performed more than 180 times there, with roles including Rodolfo in La boheme, Alfredo in La traviata, the Duke in Rigoletto, Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor, Tonio in La fille du regiment, Nemorino in L'elisir d'amore, Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni, Idreno in Semiramide, Ferrando in Cosi fan tutte, and Fenton in Falstaff.
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Frank Lopardo has made appearances with various North American opera companies, including the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Los Angeles Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Dallas Opera, the Canadian Opera Company, San Francisco Opera, and Santa Fe Opera.
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In Europe, Frank Lopardo made his debut as Fenton at Teatro di San Carlo in Naples.
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Frank Lopardo has sung as Edgardo, Rodolfo, the Duke, and Lenski in Eugene Onegin at the Opera National de Paris.
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Frank Lopardo has appeared in the Salzburg Festival, Glyndebourne Glyndebourne Opera Festival, and Aix-en-Provence festivals Aix-en-Provence Festival, and sung with De Nederlandse Opera.
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Frank Lopardo has performed in Verdi's Requiem with the London Symphony Orchestra and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Mozart's Requiem with the Berlin Philharmonic at La Scala, Berlioz's Requiem and Orff's Carmina Burana with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Rossini's Stabat Mater with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Dvorak's Requiem with the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra.
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In 1983, Frank Lopardo won first prize in the Liederkranz Foundation competition.
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Frank Lopardo was awarded an honorary doctorate from Queens College, Aaron Copland School of Music, in 1992, and in 2005 won a Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance for a recording of the Berlioz Requiem, performed with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and conducted by Robert Spano.