Roberto Tagliavini was born in Parma. Roles include Selim (Il turco in Italia), Mustafà (L’italiana in Algeri), Alidoro (La Cenerentola), Fernando (La gazza ladra), Lord Sidney (Il viaggio a Reims), Elmiro (Otello), Gouverneur (Le Comte Ory), Rodolfo (La sonnambula), Oroveso (Norma), Giorgio (I puritani), Raimondo (Lucia di Lammermoor), Banco (Macbeth), Zaccaria (Nabucco), Pagano (I Lombardi alla prima crociata), Des Grieux (Manon), Escamillo (Carmen), Frère Laurent (Roméo et Juliette), the Four Villains (Les Contes d’Hoffmann) and the title roles in Maometto II, Attila and Le nozze di Figaro. He has performed at houses including the Metropolitan Opera, La Scala, Milan, Paris Opera, Teatro Real, Madrid, Salzburg Festival, Liceu, Barcelona, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Los Angeles Opera, Dutch National Opera, the Concertgebouw, Vienna State Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper and Zurich Opera. Recent highlights include I Capuleti e i Montecchi (Salzburg Festival), La sonnambula, Carmen and La Cenerentola (Vienna), Maometto II (Naples), Il barbiere di Siviglia, Macbeth and Norma (Munich) and Nabucco (Berlin). Engagements for 2026/27 include Luisa Miller, Don Carlos and Norma (Vienna), Nabucco (Berlin), Il barbiere di Siviglia (Madrid) and La Cenerentola (Munich).