The baritone Roberto Abbondanza was born in Rome and studied with the soprano Isabel Gentile and at the Salzburg Mozarteum, as well as at the Cologne Musikhochschule with Hartmut Höll. He has specialised in the performance of early music, appearing under the direction of musicians such as Jordi Savall, Simon Preston, Sir Charles Mackerras, Rinaldo Alessandrini and Fabio Bondi in this repertoire in the concert-hall, opera-house and recording studio. He has added to this a wide experience of modern and contemporary repertoire. Roberto Abbondanza has furthered his international reputation with appearances throughout Europe, in America and in the Far East. For Naxos he has collaborated on a number of occasions with Sergio Vartolo.
