Biography

Early graduate of the G.B. Martini Music Conservatory in Bologna, Mattia Olivieri continued his studies with baritone Maurizio Leoni, with whom he still works. In 2009, he joined the Scuola dell’Opera Italiana at Teatro Comunale di Bologna, beginning collaborations with institutions including the Festival della Valle d’Itria and Semperoper Dresden. In 2012, he attended the Accademia Rossiniana at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro and joined the Centre de Perfeccionament in Valencia, where he performed Schaunard in La bohème. In 2015, Olivieri made his La Scala debut as Schaunard in Zeffirelli’s La bohème, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel, and as Belcore in L’elisir d’amore, conducted by Fabio Luisi. He has since returned to La Scala in roles including Masetto (Don Giovanni), Malatesta (Don Pasquale), Dandini (La cenerentola), Mercutio (Roméo et Juliette), Prosdocimo (Il turco in Italia), Figaro (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Silvio (Pagliacci) and Delirio (L’Opera Seria). His international repertoire includes Marcello in La bohème in Athens, San Paolo, Venice, Amsterdam and Valencia; Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia in Nice, Vienna, Berlin, Paris and Palermo; Guglielmo in Così fan tutte; the title role in Don Giovanni in Palermo, Trieste and Dubai; Giorgio Germont in La traviata at Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu; Ping in Turandot at the Arena di Verona and Bregenz Festival; Escamillo in Carmen; Papageno in Die Zauberflöte; Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor; Alfonso in La Favorite; and Ford in Falstaff, his Verdi debut, at Tokyo’s NNTT. Recent career highlights include his debut in the title role of Eugene Onegin at the Palau de les Arts in Valencia and Santa Fe Opera, and appearances in Il prigioniero at Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Florencia en el Amazonas at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, and as Ping and Belcore at the Bayerische Staatsoper. Other engagements have included Le nozze di Figaro and Pagliacci in London, Il trovatore at La Fenice, Lucia di Lammermoor in Paris, Il turco in Italia in Madrid, Les Martyrs at Theater an der Wien, I vespri siciliani at Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, and Beatrice di Tenda at Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa. He has also performed Puccini’s Messa di Gloria with the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia under Antonio Pappano. In the 2026/27 season, Olivieri appears in Lucia di Lammermoor at Deutsche Oper Berlin, Le nozze di Figaro at Teatro Real in Madrid, and Don Giovanni and Il barbiere di Siviglia at the Bayerische Staatsoper. He returns to the Metropolitan Opera for Silent Night, to Santa Cecilia for a concert performance of Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci conducted by Daniel Harding, and to La Scala for I puritani. He also makes his debut at Washington National Opera in La traviata.