Italo Proferisce, baritone, was born in Italy. His repertoire includes Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro, Masetto in Don Giovanni (Mozart), Belcore in L’elisir d’amore, Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti), Escamillo in Carmen (Bizet), Marcello in La boheme, Ping in Turandot, Sharpless in Madama Butterfly (Puccini), Tonio and Silvio in Pagliacci (Leoncavallo) and others. He performs in the opera houses of Pisa, Skopje, Livorno, Venice, Florence, Siviglia, Palermo, Verona, Genova, Catania, Seoul and others. This is his Israeli Opera debut.