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Biography
Adam Bonanni is a second-year Pittsburgh Opera Resident Artist. In 2015-16, he will be seen as Abdallo/NABUCCO, Laurie/LITTLE WOMEN, Pablo Picasso/27, and Count Almaviva/The Barber of Seville Student Matinee. In 2014-15, he appeared as Roderigo/Otello, Grimoaldo/Rodelinda, Sumeida/Sumeida's Song, and Remendado/Carmen. He was also be a guest soloist in Mozart's Requiem at Erie Philharmonic, April 2015.
As a member of Chicago Lyric Opera’s Ryan Opera Center in 2013-14, Mr. Bonanni appeared as Gastone/La traviata and The Fourth Esquire/Parsifal; he was also a featured soloist at the 2013 Ravinia Festival and Grant Park Music Festival. An alumnus of the Marcello Giordani Young Artist Program at Crested Butte Music Festival, he covered The Duke/Rigoletto in 2014. While completing graduate studies at Mannes College, he was seen as Bardolfo/Falstaff, Don Ottavio/Don Giovanni, and Dorvil/La scala di seta. In Summer 2011, he portrayed Arturo/Lucia di Lammermoor with Chautauqua Opera Theater. He has also debuted on the Carnegie Hall main stage as the tenor soloist in Handel's Messiah with the St. Cecilia Chorus. He made his Lincoln Center debut with Maestra Eve Queler and The Opera Orchestra of New York as The Priore/I Lombardi.
Mr. Bonanni has won awards from the Opera Index Vocal Competition (2011 and 2012), Second Prize in the Gerda Lissner Vocal Competition (2013), the Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation Vocal Competition (2012) and Third Prize in The Giulio Gari Foundation Vocal Competition (2012). Other honors include the Michael S. Mannes Opera Award (2011) and The Richard F. Gold Grant. Mr. Bonanni is a native of Nazareth, Pennsylvania.
Clyde B. Jones III, along with Gene Welsh and David McAdams, generously co-sponsors Mr. Bonanni's residency.
