Fabio Armiliato
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Fabio Armiliato is a city and an important seaport in northern Italy, the capital of the Province of Genoa and of the region of Liguria....
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Italian people
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tenor
Tenor
The tenor is a type of male singing voice and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between C3, the C one octave below middle C, to the A above middle C in choral music, and up to high C in solo work. The low extreme for tenors is roughly B2...
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Career
Born in Genoa, he has had an impressive career and has being hailed by critics as "the best Chénier of our time"(Landini, L'Opera).In 1993 he debuted in the Metropolitan Opera House
Metropolitan Opera House (Lincoln Center)
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in Il trovatore
Il trovatore
Il trovatore is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Salvadore Cammarano, based on the play El Trovador by Antonio García Gutiérrez. Cammarano died in mid-1852 before completing the libretto...
, returning later in Aida
Aida
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and Madama Butterfly
Madama Butterfly
Madama Butterfly is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. Puccini based his opera in part on the short story "Madame Butterfly" by John Luther Long, which was dramatized by David Belasco...
. Other important debuts include those in the Teatro alla Scala, Milan
Milan
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, in the Opéra de Paris and in San Francisco Opera
San Francisco Opera
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. He performed Madama Butterfly in La Scala, in the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago
Torre del Lago
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and in the New National Theatre
New National Theatre
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, Tokyo (where he garnered 45 minutes of applause).
He worked with Zubin Mehta
Zubin Mehta
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in Don Carlo, in a five act version in Munich
Munich
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and Florence
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In the 2007-2008 season he made a debut as Alvaro in La forza del destino
La forza del destino
La forza del destino is an Italian opera by Giuseppe Verdi. The libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on a Spanish drama, Don Álvaro o la fuerza del sino , by Ángel de Saavedra, Duke of Rivas, with a scene adapted from Friedrich Schiller's Wallensteins Lager. It was first performed...
in Montecarlo, followed by La Fanciulla del West
La fanciulla del West
La fanciulla del West is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Guelfo Civinini and Carlo Zangarini, based on the play The Girl of the Golden West by the American author David Belasco. Its highly-publicised premiere occurred in New York City in 1910...
in Rome and Norma
Norma (opera)
Norma is a tragedia lirica or opera in two acts by Vincenzo Bellini with libretto by Felice Romani after Norma, ossia L'infanticidio by Alexandre Soumet. First produced at La Scala on December 26, 1831, it is generally regarded as an example of the supreme height of the bel canto tradition...
in Bologna, while in 2008-2009, he performed Tosca in Florence, Adriana Lecouvreur
Adriana Lecouvreur
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in Palermo
Palermo
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and La Fanciulla del West in Seville
Seville
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In 2008 he participate to Puccini 150th Anniversary Gala Concert in New York.
His partner is the soprano Daniela Dessì
Daniela Dessì
Daniela Dessì Born May 14, 1957, in Genoa, Italy is an Italian lirico-spinto soprano.Daniela Dessì completed her singing studies at the Conservatory of Parma and the Accademia Chigiana of Siena. After having won the first prize at the International Competition organized by RAI TV in 1980, she had...
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Selected discography
- La Traviata: Fabio Armiliato (tenor), Daniela Dessì (soprano), John Neschling (conductor)
- Andrea Chénier: Fabio Armiliato (tenor), Daniela Dessì (soprano), Carlo Guelfi (baritono), Vjekoslav ŠutejVjekoslav ŠutejVjekoslav Šutej was a prominent Croatian orchestral conductor.-Overview:Šutej studied conducting under Igor Gjadrov at the Zagreb Music Academy, before obtaining his Master of Music degree in Rome in the class of Franco Ferrara.From 1979 to 1989 he was art director and chief conductor at the...
(conductor), Universal 2008. - Romanze e Canzoni: Fabio Armiliato (tenor), Steven MercurioSteven MercurioSteven Mercurio is an Italian American conductor and composer.-Early life:Steven Mercurio was born in Bardonia, New York, in 1956. His father was an accountant, and his mother owned a delicatessen. He studied at Graham Junior College and Boston University before entering the Juilliard School of...
(conductor), Decca 2007. - Love Duets: Fabio Armiliato (tenor), Daniela Dessì (soprano), Marco Boemi (conductor), Philips 2005.
- Madama Butterfly: Fabio Armiliato (tenor), Daniela Dessì (soprano), Juan PonsJuan PonsJoan Pons Álvarez , is a Spanish dramatic baritone, known internationally as Juan Pons.-Career:With his outstandingly successful international début in 1980 at the Teatro alla Scala of Milan with Falstaff, staged by Giorgio Strehler and conducted by Lorin Maazel, Juan Pons has revealed himself as...
(baritono), Plácido DomingoPlácido DomingoPlácido Domingo KBE , born José Plácido Domingo Embil, is a Spanish tenor and conductor known for his versatile and strong voice, possessing a ringing and dramatic tone throughout its range...
(conductor), Dynamic. - Tosca: Fabio Armiliato (tenor), Daniela Dessì (soprano), Opus Arte 2004.
- Manon Lescaut: Fabio Armiliato (tenor), Daniela Dessì (soprano), Real Sound 2004.
- Aida: Fabio Armiliato (tenor), Daniela Dessì (soprano), Opus Arte 2004.
- Le Romanze ritrovate: Fabio Armiliato (tenor), Daniela Dessì (soprano), Real Sound 2004.
- A Tribute to Verdi: Fabio Armiliato (tenor), Marcello Panni (conductor), Real Sound 2001.
External links
- Fabio Armiliato Official website