Biography
Maurizio Leoni graduated from the Accademia Filarmonica Bolognese and the Bologna Conservatorio with honours in singing.
He made is debut in 1990 at the Walton Foundation in Ischia where, under the direction of Martin Isepp and Colin Graham begins as Enrico in Il Campanello by G. Donizetti. Here start a long period of operas, characters and important meetings: La Bohème product by the AS.LI.CO. Competition conduct by S. Ranzani, Don Geronio in Il Turco in Italia as well with M° Ranzani and the direction of S. Vizioli; once more La Bohème at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice with M° Viotti and Schaunard at the Massimo Bellini Theatre in Catania and then at the Bunkakaikan Theatrte in Tokyo conduct by D. Renzetti.
Buffo roles are in this period, the most appropriate to his versatile nature: from Leporello with M° J.C. Malgoire in Tourcoing and through all France, to Matilde di Shabran by G. Rossini at the Rossini Festival in Wildbad, to Il SIgnor Bruschiono, L’occaisione fa il ladro, La scal di seta by G. Rossini at the Konzerthaus in Wien and at the Opera Comique in Paris conduct by C. Desderi, and to Mamma Agata in Le Convenienze e le Inconvenienze teatrali by G. Donizetti conduct by F. M. Carmnati.
Among these operas, start to creep the “twenties-century and contemporary world” that alway accompanied him and it has made possible to debut over 12 works premiered: we had Die Teufel von Loudon by K. Pendercki at the Teatro Regio in Torino conducted by Y. David and directed by J.C. Plaza, Gesualdo considered as a murder by L: Francesconi for MITO Festival in MIlano and more: Salomè at Teatro Comunale in Bologna with M° D. Gatti and Pierluigi Pizzi, and Turandot by F. Busoni with the conducting of L. Koenigs and directed by D. Krief and the hard but exciting experience in Il Prigioniero by L. Dallapiccola in Catania conducted by Z. Pesko.
But during the last years the balance of his voice has moved from a buffo style to a more defined baritone: and so here it is Don Quichotte in El Retablo de Maese Pedro by M. De Falla in a big tour through Italy (Monza, Pescara, Teatro Politeama in Palermo, Siracusa….) with the Divertimento ensemble (very famouse Ensemble for twenties-century music of which he is a permanent member) conduct by S. Gorli; Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia in Dordrecht (NL) with the conducting of M° G. Carella and W. Matteuzzi as director and also Figaro in Potenza with the direction of Luca Verdone; Marcello in La Bohème in Taegu (South-Corea); Rigoletto in Scandiano conduct by S. Giaroli and Giorgio Germont in Traviata in San Daniele del Friuli with M° F. Turissini.