Tenor Anthony Ciaramitaro has drawn attention for his Italianate sound and compelling stage presence. A recent winner of Plácido Domingo’s Operalia Competition, Mr. Ciaramitaro is an alumnus of Palm Beach Opera’s Bailey Apprentice Artist Program, and he returns to PBO this season as Fenton in Falstaff. He recently made his Metropolitan Opera debut as Il Messaggero in Aida. This season has also included appearances with LA Opera as Arturo in Lucia di Lammermoor and with New York City Opera as Giorgio in the world premiere of Ricky Ian Gordon’s The Garden of the Finzi-Continis. Later this season, he returns to LA Opera as Cassio in Otello.

Mr. Ciaramitaro is a former Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist at LA Opera, where he performed Il Messaggero in Aida, Heinrich der Schreiber in Tannhäuser, Ruiz in Il trovatore, and Lord Cecil in Roberto Devereux.  As a member of San Francisco Opera’s Merola Program, Mr. Ciaramitaro performed Don Ramiro in La cenerentola. He was also an inaugural member of the Renée Fleming Fellowship at the Aspen Musical Festival, making his debut as Tamino in Die Zauberflöte. In previous seasons, he appeared with Arizona Opera in the roles of Count Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia and the Governor/Vanderdendur in Candide, and he also performed as a resident artist with Santa Fe Opera, Chautauqua Opera, and Wolf Trap Opera.  

In competition, Mr. Ciaramitaro has won the CulturArte Prize at Operalia 2022, 2nd prize at the 2022 Butler Opera International Vocal Competition, 3rd prize in the 2022 Loren L. Zachary National Vocal Competition, 2nd prize in the 2021 Palm Springs Opera Guild Vocal Competition, and 3rd prize in the 2021 Vero Beach Opera Rising Stars Competition. He is a finalist in the 59th Tenor Viñas Vocal Competition in Barcelona.