Franco Fagioli Countertenor

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Franco Fagioli is the leading virtuoso countertenor of our times. He is much admired for the loveliness of his voice, which spans three octaves, as well as for his masterful technique, with which he raises performance standards to new heights.

Born in Argentina, the countertenor initially studied piano and then singing at the Superior Art Institute of the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires. His international career took off in 2003, when he won the Bertelsmann singing competition ‘Neue Stimmen’.

Franco Fagioli has since made regular appearances at opera houses in Buenos Aires, Karlsruhe, Bonn, Zurich, Essen and Genoa, at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna and the Théâtre des Champs- Elysées in Paris. He has also been invited to perform at a number of festivals, including those in Halle, Ludwigsburg, Innsbruck and Froville.

He has worked with conductors of the calibre of Rinaldo Alessandrini, Alan Curtis, Gabriel Garrido, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, René Jacobs, José Manuel Quintana, Marc Minkowski, Riccardo Muti and Christophe Rousset.

Franco Fagioli is one of the five countertenors to appear in the opera, TV, CD and DVD production of Leonardo Vinci’s Artaserse, which has been awarded just about every national and international music prize for which it is eligible.

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The 2013/2014 season was launched with Italian composer and singing teacher the release of the CD Arias for Caffarelli, Nicola Porpora (1686-1768). He also made which includes many world premieres; an appearance on the CD Siroe – Re di this was accompanied by concerts Persia, which was released at about the in Germany, France and Denmark. same time, as well as featuring on a CD entitled La Concordia de’ pianeti, which Franco Fagioli made his debut at the includes rediscovered works by the 2014 Salzburg Whitsun Festival with his baroque composer Antonio Caldara. programme Giambattista Velutti. In the same year, there were two debuts with In 2015, Franco Fagioli will be touring works by Mozart: after performing the part France and Germany in the role of Cesare of Sesto in La Clemenza di Tito in Nancy, he for Leonardo Vinci’s opera Catone in Utica. debuted as Idamante in Martin Kušej’s new A CD of the opera is to be released on the production of Idomeneo at the Royal Opera Decca label. A recording of works by Gluck House, Covent Garden, in November 2014. in collaboration with the French Insula orchestra is also scheduled for March In the autumn of 2014, his solo CD Il 2015. In April 2015, Franco Fagioli will be maestro Porpora – Arias was released, in taking on the title role in Gluck’s opera which Franco Fagioli paid homage to the Orfeo, which is to be performed in France.

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