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In the 2023-2024 season, American bass-baritone Patrick Carfizzi makes his company debut at LA Opera as Bartolo in _Il barbiere di Siviglia_ and returns the Metropolitan Opera as the Speaker in _The Magic Flute_ and Fra Melitone in a new production of _La Forza del Destino_, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. He sings Leporello in _Don Giovanni_ at Boston Baroque, and returns to Opera Theatre of St. Louis as Don Basilio in _The Barber of Seville_.

Last season, Mr. Carfizzi sang Swallow in _Peter Grimes_ and the Sacristan in _Tosca_ at the Metropolitan Opera. He also returned to Houston Grand Opera as both Bartolo in _Le Nozze di Figaro_ and Baili in _Werther_, and returned to the Tanglewood Music Festival with the Boston Symphony Orchestra as Don Alfonso in _Così fan tutte_, conducted by Andris Nelsons. He also sang Dr. Bartolo in _Il barbiere di Siviglia_ with Florentine Opera and Don Magnifico in _Cenerentola_ with Opera Maine. 

At the Metropolitan Opera, his home house at which he has now sung over 400 performances, his recent roles include the Sacristan in _Tosca_, the Speaker in _The Magic Flute_, Brander in _La damnation de Faust_, and the Lackey in _Ariadne auf Naxos_. In the 2020-2021 season, he returned to Santa Fe Opera as both Bartolo in _Le nozze di Figaro_ and Starveling in _A Midsummer Night's Dream_, returned to San Diego Opera to reprise his celebrated Dr. Bartolo in _Il barbiere di Siviglia_, and sang Dr. Dulcamara in _L'elisir d'amore_ in a recording made with Seattle Opera. He had also been scheduled to join the Metropolitan Opera as Dr. Bartolo in _Il barbiere di Siviglia_, Houston Grand Opera as Don Magnifico in _La Cenerentola_, and Arizona Opera as Dr. Dulcamara. The season prior, he returned to Minnesota Opera as Dr. Bartolo in _Il barbiere di Siviglia_, and had been scheduled to sing Dr. Dulcamara at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden.

Notable past operatic engagements include Cecil in Sir David McVicar's production of Donizetti's _Maria Stuarda_ (Metropolitan Opera), his role debut as Zeta in Lehár's _The Merry Widow_ opposite Renée Fleming and Thomas Hampson, directed by Susan Stroman and conducted by Sir Andrew Davis (Lyric Opera of Chicago), Henry Kissinger in _Nixon in China_ (San Francisco Opera, San Diego Opera and Houston Grand Opera), Music Master and Truffaldino in _Ariadne auf Naxos_ at Seattle Opera, Paolo in _Simon Boccanegra_ (San Francisco Opera, Metropolitan Opera, and Houston Grand Opera), Belcore in _L'elisir d'amore_ (Santa Fe Opera), Don Magnifico in _La Cenerentola_ (Seattle Opera and Houston Grand Opera), Dr. Bartolo in _Il Barbiere di Siviglia_ (Austin Lyric Opera, Seattle Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Central City Opera, and Canadian Opera Company), Taddeo and Mustafa in _L'italiana in Algeri_ (Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Dallas Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Santa Fe Opera and the Canadian Opera Company), Papageno in _Die Zauberflöte_ (Houston Grand Opera and Dallas Opera), and Dr. Dulcamara in _L'elisir d'amore_ (Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Houston Grand Opera and Lyric Opera of Kansas City). Mr. Carfizzi made his company debut at Opera Philadelphia as Bartolo in a new production of Mozart's _Le nozze di Figaro_, conducted by Corrado Rovaris, and at Central City Opera as Don Alfonso in Mozart's _Così fan tutte_.

Mr. Carfizzi made his Metropolitan Opera debut in 1999 and has performed over 300 times with the company in a variety of roles, including Schaunard in _La Bohème_, which was broadcast on the Live in HD series to movie theaters around the world, the Jailer in John Dexter's production of _Dialogues des Carmélites_, Masetto in _Don Giovanni_, Haly in _L'Italiana in Algeri_, Brander in Berlioz's _La damnation de Faust_, Peter Quince in Tim Albery's production of Britten's _A Midsummer Night's Dream_, and Frank in Jeremy Sams' new production of Strauss' _Die Fledermaus_. Other Met productions include _Le nozze di Figaro_, _Turandot_, and _Gianni Schicchi_.

Mr. Carfizzi made his European debut with Oper Köln as Leporello in Mozart's _Don Giovanni_ and reappeared with the company as Fra Melitone in _La forza del destino_. He made his role and company debut as the title role of Donizetti's _Don Pasquale_ with the Hessisches Staatstheater, and later returned as the title character in gala performances of _Le nozze di Figaro_.

Orchestral highlights of Mr. Carfizzi's recent seasons include performances with the St. Louis Symphony of Brahms' _Ein deutsches Requiem_ and _Vier ernste Gesänge_, under the baton of Markus Stenza, as well as Britten's _Peter Grimes_ under the baton of David Robertson, performed both in St. Louis' Powell Hall and New York City's Carnegie Hall in commemoration of the composer's 100th birthday. Past concert work includes performances of Handel's _Messiah_ with the San Francisco Symphony, _Maria Stuarda_ with the Washington Concert Opera, and Janáček's _Glagolitic Mass_ with the Seattle Symphony. He has performed with The Opera Orchestra of New York, Washington Concert Opera, and the Mostly Mozart Festival. Notable conductors with whom Mr. Carfizzi has worked include James Levine, Louis Langrée, Marco Armiliato, Vladimir Jurowski, Plácido Domingo, and Philippe Jordan.

Mr. Carfizzi is a graduate of the Yale University School of Music and the winner of several prestigious awards including the Richard Tucker Career Grant Award, the George London Award, the Sullivan Foundation Award, The Richard F. Gold Career Grant from The Shoshana Foundation, and the Sergio Franchi Memorial Scholarship from the National Italian American Foundation. He also participated in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions where he was the Connecticut District Winner.