Grammy Award-winning baritone Adelmo Guidarelli is one of opera’s busiest singing actors, sought after for the Italian character parts in operas by Donizetti, Rossini, and Mozart, including the title role in Don Pasquale, Dulcamara in L’elisir d’amore, Don Magnifico in La Cenerentola, Bartolo in Il barbiere di Siviglia and Le nozze di Figaro, Leporello in Don Giovanni, and Don Alphonso in Così fan tutte. Other notable roles include the title roles in Falstaff and Gianni Schicchi, the Sacristan in Tosca, Benoit/Alcindoro in La bohème, and Sulpice in La fille du régiment.
Last season’s engagements included Bartolo in Il barbiere di Siviglia with both Shreveport Opera and Gulfshore Opera, Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte with Cedar Rapids Opera, Judge Turpin in Opera Tampa’s Sweeney Todd, and Kiss Me Kate with Central City Opera. This season, he will sing Don Magnifico in Toledo Opera’s La Cenerentola and Bartolo in Il barbiere di Siviglia with both Virginia Opera and in his return to Tri-Cities Opera.
In previous seasons, Guidarelli performed the role of Zuniga in Carmen for Salt Marsh Opera, Don Magnifico in La Cenerentola for Tri-Cities Opera and Syracuse Opera, Sacristan in Tosca for Opera Las Vegas, Bartolo in Le nozze di Figaro for Shreveport Opera, a role début as Germont in La Traviata for Opera Theatre of Connecticut, and the title role in Don Pasquale for Opera Las Vegas. He also sang Sharpless in Madama Butterfly with Pensacola Opera, Frank in Die Fledermaus with Amarillo Opera, Capulet in Roméo et Juliette with Sarasota Opera, Dulcamara in L’elisir d’amore with Opera Las Vegas and Opera Theater of Connecticut, Benoit/Alcindoro in La bohème with Salt Marsh Opera, his one man show, Operation Opera with the National Opera Center NYC, Leporello in Don Giovanni with Geneva Light Opera and Salt Marsh Opera, Bartolo in Le nozze di Figaro with Opera Tampa, Morales/Zuniga in Carmen with Opera in Williamsburg, the Sacristan in Tosca with New Jersey Festival Orchestra, Dick Deadeye in Gilbert & Sullivan’s H.M.S. Pinafore, Sulpice in La fille du régiment with the Wendy Taucher Dance Opera Theater, Don Magnifico in La Cenerentola with Opera Las Vegas, Alidoro in La Cenerentola and the Warden in Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking with Shreveport Opera, and the role of Don Magnifico in Rossini’s La Cenerentola with Bob Jones University. Adelmo co-produced a cast album with composer Stephen Melillo of Son of the Storm on which Adelmo took on the role of Victor Frankenstein, and he joined Central City Opera for the roles of Dr. Grenvil in La Traviata and the Innkeeper/Governor in Mitch Leigh’s Man of la Mancha for their summer festival. In addition, Mr. Guidarelli performed Sacristan in Tosca with The Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra, Martino in L’occasione fa il ladro with Little Opera Theatre of New York, and took on the title role in Gianni Schicchi and Don Pasquale for Salt Marsh Opera.
In addition to opera, Mr. Guidarelli landed two national TV commercials for Sony’s PS4 Pro “Opera Campaign,” one of which débuted during the 2018 Super Bowl game day coverage on NBC. He is a featured soloist on the Grammy Award-winning album All the Sounds by Lucy Kalantari and The Jazz Cats as “Mr. Opera Man” and has hosted a TV show called Voices Among Us. He won The MAC Award for “Best Comedy Performer” for his opera comedy show Operation Opera, was invited by Ryan Seacrest to
perform Mozart’s “Non più andrai” on his E! Channel series Bank of Hollywood, was featured on BBC Scotland live from Edinburgh, was heard on a national commercial for Lidia’s Italian Gourmet Kitchen, and is a featured soloist on a German Children’s CD called Der Kleine Tanzbar Schubidu. He is also part of the Sony MBA (Music Business Association) catalog singing the seasonal hits “A Christmas Toast” and “Sing Your Song.” His début solo album titled Treasured Songs of Italy & Germany spawned an International Association of Independent Recording Artists (IAIRA) certified International #1 hit for his dual language version of “Funiculì, Funiculà,” and he is a voting member of the Recording Academy and an annual participant at the Grammy Awards.
Adelmo has worked with operatic legends such as Luciano Pavarotti, Jerome Hines, Giulietta Simionato, Licia Albanese, Sherrill Milnes, and Robert Merrill. In Europe, he has performed with Opera Évreux of France, as a soloist in Orff’s Carmina Burana in Italy, at the Vatican for Pope John Paul II, in the UK for Queen Elizabeth II, as well as in Spain, Portugal, and Germany.