Graduated in singing with full marks and honours in the “A.Casella” conservatory of L’Aquila, with Alessandro Valentini. He perfected his studies with: Bonaldo Giaiotti, Bruno Praticò, Alda Borelli-Morgan and Luigi De Corato.

With his flexible vocality and personality he has had the opportunity to explore a repertoire that ranges from baroque to contemporary music, and covers the bass string, as well as that of the bass baritone, his repertoire includes roles such as: Figaro in “Nozze di Figaro”, Don Giovanni and Leporello in “Don Giovanni”, Don Alfonso in “Così fan tutte”, Sarastro and Sprecher in “Die Zauberflote” by W.A.Mozart, Ramfis in “Aida” by G.Verdi, Raimondo in “Lucia di Lammermoor”, Dulcamara in “L’elisir d’amore” and Don Pasquale in “Don Pasquale” by G.Donizetti, René in “Iolanta” by P.I.Tschaikowsky, Lord Sidney in “Viaggio a Reims”, Walter Furst and Guillaume Tell in “Guillaume Tell”, Bartolo and Basilio “Barbiere di Siviglia” by G.Rossini, Geronte in “Manon Lescaut”, Timur in “Turandot”, Colline and Schaunard “La Bohème” by G.Puccini, Uberto in “Serva Padrona” by G.B.Pergolesi, Aleko and Old Gypsy in “Aleko” by S.V.Rachmaninov, and Ramfis in “Aida” by G.Verdi.

Among his next commitments we find the debut as Kaspar in “Der Freischütz” by C.M.von Weber, as a reprisal of the role of Donizetti’s Don Pasquale.

“Matteo Maria Ferretti portrayed Raimondo, the ambiguous clergyman, very distinctively with his well-founded and secure bass.”

(Orig. german)

Matteo Ferretti - Bass - Biography - Raimondo - Lucia di Lammermoor

He performed at houses including Mariinsky Theatre, Teatro San Carlo di Napoli, Aalto Theater Essen, St. Petersburg Academic Philarmonia, Luglio Musicale Trapanese, D.A.Hvorostovsky Theatre of Krasnojarsk, Kiel Theater and Theater Osnabrück, he worked with conductors like: Donato Renzetti, Fabio Mastrangelo, Georg Fritzsch, Massimiliano Stefanelli, Giampaolo Maria Bisanti, Benjamin Reiners, Alessandro Quarta, Claudio Desderi and Daniel Carlberg; and directors like: Brigitte Fassbaender, Alexandra Liedtke, Valentina Carrasco, Fabio Ceresa, Pier Francesco Maestrini, Uwe Schwarz, Henning Brockhause, Davide Garattini, Carlos Wagner, Luise Kautz, Ulrich Waller, Sarah Kohrs, Joachim Radtke, Daniel Karasek.


He won prizes in various international competitions including the “Marcello Giordani Competition”, the “Francesco Paolo Tosti International Competition”, and the “ArteInCanto International Competition”.