Patrick Carfizzi

Bass-baritone Patrick Carfizzi celebrates his 26th season at the Metropolitan Opera, where he has given over 450 performances. He opens its 2025-26 season in the company premiere of Mason Bates’ The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, directed by Bartlett Sher and conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. He makes his company debut at Atlanta Opera as Bartolo in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's The Marraige of Figaro and sings his signature role, Dr. Bartolo in Gioachino Rossini's The Barber of Seville, at both San Francisco Opera and San Diego Opera.

During the 2024-25 season, he returned to the Metropolitan Opera as the Sacristan in Giacomo Puccini's Tosca, conducted by Nézet-Séguin, Marco Armiliato, and Xian Zhang, alongside Sondra Radvanovsky, Lise Davidsen, and Aleksandra Kurzak. He sang Agata in Gaetano Donizetti's Viva la Mamma and the title role in Domenico Cimarosa’s The Music Teacher at Florentine Opera, and he returned to the Metropolitan Opera for Dr. Bartolo in The Barber of Seville, his first performance of this signature role at the company. In the summer months, he sang the title role in Donizetti's Don Pasquale at Opera Theatre of St. Louis in a production by Christopher Alden, conducted by Kensho Watanabe.

In the 2023-24 season, he made his company debut at Los Angeles Opera as Dr. Bartolo in The Barber of Seville and returned the Metropolitan Opera as the Speaker in The Magic Flute and Fra Melitone in a new production of Giuseppe Verdi's The Power of Fate, conducted by Nézet-Séguin. 

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 Franz 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), and more at many major opera houses across the United States and Canada. Carfizzi made his European debut with Oper Köln as Leporello in Mozart's Don Giovanni and reappeared with the company as Fra Melitone in The Power of Fate.

Orchestral highlights of Mr. Carfizzi’s recent seasons include performances with the St. Louis Symphony of Johannes Brahms’ Requiem and Four Serious Songs, under the baton of Markus Stenz, as well as Benjamin 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. 

Carfizzi is 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.