Ian DeNolfo studied at The Juilliard School and the Curtis Institute and won the Lauritz Melchior Heldentenor Foundation Award as well as the Pavarotti International Voice Competition Finalist Award. Since the late 1990s he has been making his name internationally in such heroic roles as Verdi’s Otello (Washington, conducted by Placido Domingo); Radamès in Aida; Calaf in Turandot; Saint-Saëns’s Samson; and Rodolfo in La Bohème.