Angelo Raciti (Switzerland/Italy)

Artistic Director and Language Coach

Angelo Raciti sings a wide range of lyric and spinto leads: Don José in Bizets Carmen, Rodolfo in Puccini’s La Bohème, the title roles in Mozarts Idomeneo and Gounods Faust, as well as Alfredo and Fenton in Verdis La Traviata and Falstaff. His operetta roles range from Sou-Chong in Lehàrs The Land of Smiles to the Duke and Alfred in Johann Strauss’s Night in Venice and Die Fledermaus. He has also sung the title roles of Monteverdis Orfeo and Il ritorno d’ Ulisse in patria.

Apart from his busy schedule as principal lyric tenor at the Mittelsächsisches Theater in Freiberg, Angelo Raciti has performed in many of Germany’s major concert venues, such as the Tonhalle Düsseldorf, the Stadthalle Kassel, the Berlin Konzerthaus, the Musikhalle Hamburg, the Nikolaisaal Potsdam, the Konzerthaus Freiburg, the Liederhalle Stuttgart and on tour throughout Saxony and Thuringia with the Vogtland Phiharmonic’s New Years’ concert in 2006, as well as in Geneva’s Victoria Hall. His concert repertoire ranges from Monteverdi’s Il combattimento di Tancredi e

Clorinda, through Rossini’s Petite Messe Solenelle and Mendelssohns Elijah to Kodaly’s Psalmus hungaricus.

Angelo Raciti studied English and German literature and linguistics in his native city Basel as well as in Zurich and Berlin. There he was a fellow of the John F. Kennedy’s postgraduate program in American cultural theory and history. He took singing lessons since the age of 17, first as a baritone and subsequently with Ruggiero Orofino as a tenor. He took part in masterclasses of William Matteuzzi, and Karan Armstrong and gave his stage debut in 2002 with the Berlin University of the Arts as the protagonist Zhivny in Janaceks rarely performed opera Osud. 

Angelo Raciti has been Artistic Director of the Lotte Lehmann Woche since 2003, of the Lotte Lehmann Academy since its inception in 2009.