One of the most refined interpreters worldwide of “buffo” and “brillante” roles in Rossini, Donizetti, Mozart and belcanto repertoire.
Omar Montanari has worked with such conductors as Riccardo Muti, Donato Renzetti, Bruno Campanella, Michele Mariotti, Michel Plasson, Ivor Bolton, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Omer Meir Wellber, Andrea Battistoni, Lorenzo Viotti, Julian Kovatchev, John Axelrod, Gianluca Capuano and others.
He took part in exciting opera production Worldwide directed by Graham Vick, Davide Livermore, Damiano Michieletto, Emilio Sagi, Hugo de Ana, Beppe de Tomasi, Denis Krief, Dario Fo, Antonio Albanese, , Giorgio Pressburger,, Enzo Dara, Jean-Francois Sivadier, etc.
His career highlights include Il Matrimonio Segreto by D.Cimarosa (Geronimo and Conte Robinson) at Teatro Arriaga di Bilbao at Festival dei due Mondi di Spoleto, at Teatro Massimo in Palermo and at Teatro La Fenice in Venezia; Il Viaggio a Reims di G.Rossini (Trombonok and Don Alvaro) at Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro; Le Nozze di Figaro (Figaro) at Tokyo’s Bunka Kaikan and at NCPA in Beijing; L’Italiana in Algeri di G. Rossini ( Taddeo) at Regio di Torino, at Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, alla Royal Opera House di Muscat in Oman, at Opéra National de Lorraine in Nancy and at Teatro la Fenice in Venezia; Arrighetto by C.Coccia (Conte Ludovico) at Rossini Opera Festival; Don Giovanni (Leporello) at Teatro la Fenice and at Comunale di Bologna under the baton of Michele Mariotti; Don Pasquale at Filarmonico di Verona and Opéra de Lausanne, L’Elisir d’Amore di G.Donizetti (Dulcamara) at Hamburg Staatsoper and in a new production at at Oper Köln; Cosi fan tutte di W.A.Mozart (Don Alfonso) at Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and at Dresden Semperoper under the baton of M° Wellber, La Cenerentola ( Don Magnifico) at Bunka Kaikan in Tokyo and in a new production at Oper Köln, I due Figaro by S. Mercadante (Plagio) at Salzburg Festival, at Teatro Real in Madrid and Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires; L’Inganno Felice (Tarabotto), L’Occasione fa il ladro (Don Parmenione), La Cambiale di Matrimonio (Tobia Mill), La Scala di seta (Germano), Il Signor Bruschino (Gaudenzio) at Teatro la Fenice in Venezia; La Gazza ladra at Teatro Filarmonico in Verona; Cléopatre di J.Massenet (Ennius) at Salzburg Festival; Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Don Bartolo) at Bunka Kaikan in Tokyo at Teatro la Fenice in Venezia, at Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, at Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, at Teatro Filarmonico di Verona, at Israeli Opera Tel Aviv and at Opera de Montreal; Il Segreto di Susanna (Conte Gil) at Berlin Konzerthaus; Mirandolina by B.Martinu (Cavaliere di Ripafratta) at Teatro Comunale Bologna under the baton of M° Lyniv.
He has recorded ‘I due Figaro’ by S.Mercadante under the baton of Riccardo Muti (Dynamic) and ‘Messa da Requiem’ by G.Donizetti with M° Riccardo Rovaris.
Graduated at Conservatorio ‘G.Rossini’ di Pesaro, in 2005 he won the Concorso Europeo ‘A.Belli’ in Spoleto.