The Italian baritone Roberto De Candia has enjoyed success after success on the world's great stages. Among the most prestigious engagements of recent seasons were his debut at the Glyndebourne Festival in Manon Lescaut (Lescaut) under the baton of John Eliot Gardiner in 1997, his Zurich debut in Don Pasquale (Malatesta), his first Ford (Verdi's Falstaff) at the Macerata Opera Festival in 1998, his Nederlandse Opera debut in 2000 with L'italiana in Algeri (Taddeo) and Il barbiere di Siviglia (Figaro). In the same season he also portrayed the roles of Albert in Werther and of Falstaff in Modena and Reggio Emilia, a role, this last, revisited in 2002 for his Dresden Semperoper debut. The successful debut at La Coruña Opera with Un giorno di regno and at the Deutsche Oper Berlin with La Bohème (Marcello) have followed, as well as the interpretations of Papageno in Die Zauberflöte with the Orchestra della Toscana conducted by Myung-Whun Chung in 2002, Sancho in Don Quichotte  at the Teatro Regio di Torino (2002/3) and, more recently, Belcore in L'elisir d'amore in Bologna, Bohème in Berlin, Turandot in La Scala, Italiana in Algeri in Tokyo,  Il turco in Italia in Las Palmas and Lisbon, Signor Burschino and Gianni Schicchi in Lausanne. On the concert side, he just appeared at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia di Roma in Orff's Carmina Burana, and in Florence with the Orchestra della Toscana, in Peer Gynt. In November 2004 he has made his outstanding debut at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in La forza del destino. Recent triumphs he had with Cenerentola in Torino, in Tokyo and at the Teatro alla Scala.

This season 2005/06 has started with his acclaimed performances as Figaro in Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Opera Company of Philadelphia, as Poeta in Il turco in Italia in Torino, as Raguenau in Alfano's Cyrano at the Metropolitan of New York (with Placido Domingo). He also performed Carmina Burana at the Teatro Lirico in Cagliari and Falstaff (Falstaff/Ford) at the Le Monnaie in Bruxelles.

Forthcoming engagements include Falstaff at the Opera Company of Philadelphia and in Treviso, Manon Lescaut at the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari Il Dissoluto Assolto at the Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci in Genova, Cyrano in Valencia, Il Turco in Italia at the Bayerische Staatsoper in München, La Cenerentola at the Welsh National Opera of Cardiff, La Forza del destino at the Opera de Montecarlo and at the Monnaie in Bruxelles and L'italiana in Algeri at the Teatro Regio in Torino.

After his debut at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro in 1996 as Parmenione in L'occasione fa il ladro, Roberto De Candia has returned to the ROF the following seasons in Il signor Bruschino (Bruschino Padre), Adina, ovvero il Califfo di Bagdad, Il viaggio a Reims (led by Daniele Gatti; 1999), La Cenerentola (Dandini; 2000) and Il turco in Italia (Poeta Posdocimo; 2002). Roberto De Candia is a regular guest of the Teatro alla Scala, where he made his debut opening the 1996/7 season as Ubalde in Gluck's Armide with Riccardo Muti, and where he returned as the Poeta Prosdocimo in Il turco in Italia with Riccardo Chailly, Antonio in Linda di Chamounix, Lescaut in Manon Lescaut, Melitone in La forza del destino (under Riccardo Muti; also toured to Japan in 2000), as well as for Il barbiere di Siviglia (Figaro; 1999, 2002), L'elisir d'amore (Belcore; 1998, 2001), A se stesso by Roman Vlad under the guidance of Giuseppe Sinopoli (1999), and L'Italiana in Algeri (Taddeo; 2003).
He made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in 1998 as Lescaut in Massenet's Manon, singing Dandini in La Cenerentola and Belcore in L'elisir d'amore in the same season. He returned there in the 1999/2000 season in La Bohème and for a Gala concert with Pavarotti, followed by his recent appearances there as Lescaut in Manon and as Taddeo in L'italiana in Algeri. Roberto De Candia's vast repertoire and international career have also brought him to the Salzburg Festival (Don Giovanni), the Opéra Comique de Paris (Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia), to Avignon (Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor), to the Wexford Festival (Alcandro in Saffo), the Opéra de Montpellier (Il burbero di buon cuore by Martin y Solér), the New National Theatre in Tokyo (Manon Lescaut, Il barbiere di Siviglia), the Japan Opera Foundation in Tokyo (L'italiana in Algeri), the Teatro Comunale di Bologna (Taddeo in L'italiana in Algeri, De Siriex in Fedora and the Poeta Il turco in Italia), the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma (La Cenerentola, Rambaldo in La rondine), the Teatro Regio di Torino (in the title role of Gianni Schicchi, as Enrico in Donizetti's Il campanello, Sharpless in Madama Butterfly, Rambaldo in La rondine), the Teatro Massimo di Palermo (Manon Lescaut, King Roger, La cambiale di matrimoni, La Cenerentola), to Reggio Emilia (Germano in La scala di seta), to the Teatro Regio di Parma (Belcore in L'elisir d'amore), the Teatro Verdi di Trieste (La Rondine), the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari (Don Giovanni, Don Pasquale, Il barbiere di Siviglia and A village Romeo and Juliet).

His discography includes Corradino by Galante, Pacini's Saffo, Mascagni's Messa di Gloria, La Cenerentola (for ROF). He is also heard as the Poeta Prosdocimo in Il turco in Italia with Riccardo Chailly on Decca, a Gramophone Award winner CD, and he has recently recorded again with Decca and Riccardo Chailly La Bohème (Schaunard).

Roberto De Candia began his musical studies as a cellist. He started his vocal studies under Lajos Kozma, later working with Sesto Bruscantini. In 1990 he won the International Competition «A. Belli» in Spoleto, soon after making important debuts in Puccini's Messa di Gloria at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia di Roma and in Massenet's Manon in Parma.