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Adelmo Guidarelli
Don Alfonso

Grammy award winning Baritone Adelmo Guidarelli is one of opera’s busiest singing actors sought after for Italian character parts such as the title role in Don Pasquale and Dulcamara in L’elisir d’amore; Don Magnifico in La Cenerentola and Bartolo in Il barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini); and Doctor Bartolo in Le nozze di Figaro, Leporello in Don Giovanni and Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte. Other notable roles include the title roles in Falstaff and Gianni Schicchi, and the Sacristan in Tosca; Benoit and Alcindoro in La bohème; and Sulpice in La fille du régiment.

Notable companies in which he has appeared include Palm Beach Opera, Opera Theater of Connecticut, Opera Tampa, Opera Las Vegas, New Jersey State Opera, Salt Marsh Opera, Syracuse Opera, Tri-Cities Opera, Shreveport Opera, Pensacola Opera, Central City Opera and now Cedar Rapids Opera, to name a few. Globally he has appeared in Greece, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Vienna, Austria, Prague, Slovakia, Ireland, Scotland and Wales in various productions, concerts and festivals.

In addition to opera, Mr. Guidarelli landed two national TV commercials for SONY’s PS4 Pro “Opera Campaign,” one of which debuted during the 2018 Super Bowl game day coverage on NBC. He is a featured soloist on the Grammy award winning album “All The Sounds” by Lucy Kalantari and The Jazz Cats as “Mr. Opera Man” and has hosted a TV show called “Voices Among Us.” He won The MAC Award for “Best Comedy Performer” for the opera comedy show Operation Opera, was invited by Ryan Seacrest to perform Mozart’s “Non più andrai” on his E! Channel series Bank of Hollywood, was featured on BBC Scotland live from Edinburgh, was heard on a national commercial for Lidia’s Italian Gourmet Kitchen, and is a featured soloist on a German Children’s CD called "Der Kleine Tanzbar Schubidu." He is also part of the SONY MBA (Music Business Association) catalog singing the seasonal hits “A Christmas Toast” and “Sing Your Song.” His debut solo album titled “Treasured Songs of Italy & Germany” spawned an International Association of Independent Recording Artists (IAIRA) certified International #1 hit for his dual language version of “Funiculi, Funicula,” and he is a voting member of The Recording Academy and an annual participant at the Grammy Awards.

Mr. Guidarelli has been the recipient of career grants from The Schuyler Foundation for Career Bridges, The Amadeus Fund, The Bloomfield chapter of UNICO, The New Jersey Alliance for Performing Artists, The Columbians, The Caruso International Voice Competition, and from Richard and Donna Esteves.