Born in Palermo, Ugo Guagliardo graduated in Philosophy from the University of the Studies of Palermo, in Piano and voice at National Conservatory of Music “V. Bellini” Palermo.

He won several national and international contest and he has followed courses of improvement held by Magda Olivero, Gabriella Tucci, William Matteuzzi, Romolo Gazzani, Enzo Dara, Katia Ricciarelli, Alberto Zedda (Academy Rossiniana of Pesaro), Renato Bruson.

Specialized in Rossini’s repertoire he sang Assur in Semiramide staged by P-L Pizzi in Teatro dell’Opera Roma; Don Basilio in Rossini’s Barbiere di Sevilla in Belcanto Festival Dordrecht and Teatro Cilea; Don Profondo and Lord Sidney in Il Viaggio e Reims and Stabat Mater (dir. A. Zedda) in Rossini Opera Festival Pesaro; Petite Messe Solennenne in the Teatro San Carlo in Napoli; Alidoro in Cenerentola in Bruxelles Théâtre Royal de La Monnaie-Bruxelles under the batton of M.Minkowski.

He sang Mozart’ repertoire : Don Alfonso in Così Fan tutte at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo under the batton of Marc Soudant; Masetto in Don Giovanni in Bunkamura Theatre of Tokyo and La Monnaie of Bruxelles dir. Kazushi Ono, Don Bartolo in Le Nozze di Figaro in Teatro Regio Torino and La Clemenza di Tito with G A Noseda.

Furthermore he sang Faraone in Aida (Teatro Politeama Lecce); Il Gran Sacerdote di Belo in Nabucco (Teatro F.Cilea); Samuel in Un Ballo in Maschera in Teatro Massimo Palermo; Il Pirata in Ancona and Opera de Marseille; Colline in La Boheme in Teatro Pergolesi Jesi etc.

Within the Ancient and Sacred Music he has sung Vespro della Beata Vergine by C. Monteverdi; L’Enfance du Christ by Berlioz; Requiem by G. Verdi; Gli Amori di Apollo e Dafne by F. Cavalli dir. A.Zessa, Stabat Mater by Rossini, Requiem by Mozart, L’Incoronazione di Poppea di C. Monteverdi; La Dirindina and Serpollo e Serpilla by A. Scarlatti dir. G.Antonini.

Between his very recent and forthcoming engagements we cite:

Così fan tutte by Mozart in Teatro Massimo Palermo dir. H.Soudant stage M.Gandini; Agrippina by Handel in Venice and Krakow with Fabio Biondi; Il Barbiere di Siviglia by Rossini in Tel Aviv and Genève with A.Zedda; Raimondo in Lucia di Lamermoor in Palermo, Mustafa in Italiana in Algeri in Cagliari; Petite Messe Solennelle by Rossini in Teatro Sen Carlo Naples, Maria Stuarda in Teatro Massimo Palermo; Achilla in the Giulio Cesare and Blanzac in Rossini’s Scala di Seta under the batton of Jean-Claude Malgoire etc.

Date last edited: July 2010