Roberto Scandiuzzi studied singing in his hometown of Treviso with Anna Maria Bicciato. He made his debut in 1982 at La Scala in Milan in The Marriage of Figaro under conductor Riccardo Muti. His international reputation was established following his 1991 debut as Fiesco in Simon Boccanegra at Covent Garden in London with Sir George Solti. Blessed with a rich, noble and harmonious voice, Scandiuzzi is today considered one of the great talents of the operatic stage. Critics often compare him to Ezio Pinza and Cesare Siepi, two of the most important basses of the century, whose influence has been fundamental.
Throughout his career, he has regularly performed at the world’s most prestigious opera houses, including the Metropolitan Opera in New York, La Scala in Milan, the Opéra Bastille in Paris, Covent Garden in London, the Vienna State Opera, the Munich Opera, and the San Francisco Opera. He has collaborated with major symphony orchestras such as the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonics, the Royal Philharmonic and London Philharmonic, the Chicago, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Boston, and Los Angeles orchestras, the La Scala Philharmonic, the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Orchestra, the Orchestra of Santa Cecilia in Rome, the Orchestre National de Paris, the Orchestre National de France, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, and the Munich Philharmonic, under conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Colin Davis, Valery Gergiev, Jesús López Cobos, Christoph Eschenbach, James Levine, Fabio Luisi, Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Seiji Ozawa, Georges Prêtre, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Giuseppe Sinopoli, and Marcello Viotti.
His wide repertoire spans from Verdi bass roles to French and contemporary repertoire, from Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex to Dvořák’s Stabat Mater, including several world premieres.
He made his debut at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in the 1986/87 season with Lucia di Lammermoor and has returned with Don Carlo (1999/2000), Aida (2000/01 and 2002/03), Norma (2002/03), and Macbeth (2003/04).