Franco Fagioli
Franco Fagioli is an Argentinian operatic countertenor.Life
Born in Argentina, Fagioli initially studied piano and then singing at the Superior Art Institute of the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires. He began his international career in 2003, when he won the Bertelsmann singing competition Neue Stimmen in Gütersloh, Germany.
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 such as 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 numerous national and international music prizes for example the Echo Award 2013 and 2014 or the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik.
The 2013/2014 season was launched with the release of the CD Arias for Caffarelli, which includes many world premieres; this was accompanied by concerts in Germany, France and Denmark. Franco Fagioli made his debut at the 2014 Salzburg Whitsun Festival with his programme Giambattista Velutti. In the same year, there were two debuts with works by Mozart: after performing the part of Sesto in La clemenza di Tito in Nancy, he debuted as Idamante in Martin Kušej’s new production of Idomeneo at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in November 2014.
In the autumn of 2014, his solo CD Il maestro Porpora – Arias was released, in which Franco Fagioli paid homage to the Italian composer and singing teacher Nicola Porpora. He also made an appearance on the CD Siroe – Re di Persia, which was released at about the same time, as well as featuring on a CD entitled La Concordia de’ pianeti, which includes rediscovered works by the Baroque composer Antonio Caldara.Discography
Solo recitals
- Arte Nova Voices. Händel, Mozart. Opera Arias Gustav Kuhn 2005.
- Franco Fagioli. Canzone e Cantate. 2010.
- Arias for Caffarelli: Vinci, Leo, Hasse, Pergolesi, Santo. Il pomo d'oro. Riccardo Minasi 2013.
- Il Maestro Porpora – Arias 2014.
- Franco Fagioli. Rossini George Petrou 2016.
- Handel: Arias Zevira Valova 2018.
- Veni, Vidi, Vinci, Arias by Leonardo Vinci, Il pomo d'oro, Zevira Valova, 2020.
Opera
- Christoph Willibald Gluck: Ezio 2008.
- George Frideric Handel: Teseo 2009.
- George Frideric Handel: Berenice 2010.
- unknown composer: Germanico Ottaviano Tenerani 2011
- Leonardo Vinci: Artaserse 2013.
- Johann Adolph Hasse: Siroe 2014.
- Antonio Caldara: La concordia de' pianeti 2014.
- Agostino Steffani: Stabat Mater 2014.
- Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice Laurence Equilbey 2015.
- Vinci: Catone in Utica Riccrdo Minasi 2015.
- Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: Adriano in Siria Jan Tomasz Adamus 2016.
- Händel: Rodelinda Diego Fasolis 2016.
Sacred works
