Franco Fagioli
Text in englischer Sprache verfügbarCountertenor Franco Fagioli specializes in the difficult Baroque opera repertory of the castrati, male singers who were castrated as children so that their voices would not change. He has worked with conductors such as Rinaldo Alessandrini and Christophe Rousset, who have striven to rediscover the highly dramatic aspects of castrato roles. Fagioli was born in San Miguel de Tucumán in northern Argentina in 1981. He started out taking piano lessons, showed musical talent, and was sent to the Instituto Superior de Arte at Buenos Aires' Teatro Colón, one of the country's top music schools. He also took vocal music classes there, and several teachers identified him as a true countertenor even though that vocal specialty was not common in Argentina at the time. Fagioli's range covers three octaves, and he excels in both a powerful top register reminiscent of the actual castrati and at the bottom of his range. He scored a breakthrough in 2003 when he won the Bertelsmann Foundation's Neue Stimmen (New Voices) competition in Gütersloh, Germany. Soon he began to find major bookings in operatic countertenor roles such as the athletic leads in Handel's Giulio Cesare and Ariodante, and Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice. He has been in demand not only from Baroque operatic conducting specialists such as Alessandrini but from mainstream conductors such as Riccardo Muti, under whom he made his debut at the Salzburg Whitsun Festival in 2007. Fagioli has sung the title role of Handel's Giulio Cesare in a variety of opera houses in many countries, and the castrato roles of Handel are among his specialties. However, he has also inclined toward roles originated by the castrato Gaetano Majorano, called Caffarelli -- a rival to the better-known Farinelli -- and Giambattista Velluti (1780-1861), whose career stretched into the Rossini era. Fagioli's repertory stretches as far back as Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea. Although Fagioli's public appearances have mostly been in the operatic realm, his recordings have focused on recitals. In 2013, he released Arias for Caffarelli on the Naïve label, and he has since recorded for Dynamic, Deutsche Grammophon, and other labels. In 2020, he was heard as Nerone (Nero) on an Erato recording of Handel's opera Agrippina, with the early music ensemble Il Pomo d'Oro conducted by Maxim Emelyanychev.
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Countertenor Franco Fagioli specializes in the difficult Baroque opera repertory of the castrati, male singers who were castrated as children so that their voices would not change. He has worked with conductors such as Rinaldo Alessandrini and Christophe Rousset, who have striven to rediscover the highly dramatic aspects of castrato roles.
Fagioli was born in San Miguel de Tucumán in northern Argentina in 1981. He started out taking piano lessons, showed musical talent, and was sent to the Instituto Superior de Arte at Buenos Aires' Teatro Colón, one of the country's top music schools. He also took vocal music classes there, and several teachers identified him as a true countertenor even though that vocal specialty was not common in Argentina at the time. Fagioli's range covers three octaves, and he excels in both a powerful top register reminiscent of the actual castrati and at the bottom of his range. He scored a breakthrough in 2003 when he won the Bertelsmann Foundation's Neue Stimmen (New Voices) competition in Gütersloh, Germany. Soon he began to find major bookings in operatic countertenor roles such as the athletic leads in Handel's Giulio Cesare and Ariodante, and Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice. He has been in demand not only from Baroque operatic conducting specialists such as Alessandrini but from mainstream conductors such as Riccardo Muti, under whom he made his debut at the Salzburg Whitsun Festival in 2007. Fagioli has sung the title role of Handel's Giulio Cesare in a variety of opera houses in many countries, and the castrato roles of Handel are among his specialties. However, he has also inclined toward roles originated by the castrato Gaetano Majorano, called Caffarelli -- a rival to the better-known Farinelli -- and Giambattista Velluti (1780-1861), whose career stretched into the Rossini era. Fagioli's repertory stretches as far back as Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea.
Although Fagioli's public appearances have mostly been in the operatic realm, his recordings have focused on recitals. In 2013, he released Arias for Caffarelli on the Naïve label, and he has since recorded for Dynamic, Deutsche Grammophon, and other labels. In 2020, he was heard as Nerone (Nero) on an Erato recording of Handel's opera Agrippina, with the early music ensemble Il Pomo d'Oro conducted by Maxim Emelyanychev.
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Handel : Opera Arias
Franco Fagioli
Opernauszüge - Erschienen bei Deutsche Grammophon (DG) am 12.01.2018
5 étoiles de ClassicaGramophone Editor's ChoicePreis der deutschen SchallplattenkritikDieses Album richtet sich nicht nur an Liebhaber des Countertenors – Franco Fagioli ist in diesem Fach einer der großen Stars – sondern auch an Fans v ...
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Veni, Vidi, Vinci
Franco Fagioli
Klassik - Erschienen bei Deutsche Grammophon (DG) am 08.05.2020
Während in deutschen Landen ein gewisser Johann Sebastian Bach die Musik durch den Kontrapunkt zu einem Grad der Kompliziertheit steigerte, der dem si ...
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Arias for Caffarelli
Franco Fagioli
Klassik - Erschienen bei naïve classique am 09.09.2013
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Rossini
Franco Fagioli
Klassik - Erschienen bei Deutsche Grammophon (DG) am 09.09.2016
5 Sterne Fono Forum KlassikVor dem ersten Ton aus dem Lautsprecher eine gewisse Skepsis: Wollen die Countertenöre jetzt auch noch die Mezzosoprane im Belcantofach um ihre Jobs b ...
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Handel : Serse
Franco Fagioli
Klassik - Erschienen bei Deutsche Grammophon (DG) am 02.11.2018
5 étoiles de ClassicaGramophone Editor's ChoiceNachdem „Ombra mai fu“ verklungen ist, gesungen von Franco Fagioli in einem feinen Vibrato, wie es sonst nur den besten Mezzosopranistinnen zu Gebote ...
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Gluck : Orfeo ed Euridice (Live)
Franco Fagioli
Klassik - Erschienen bei Archiv Produktion am 11.09.2015
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Il maestro Porpora : Arias
Franco Fagioli
Vokalmusik (weltlich und geistlich) - Erschienen bei naïve classique am 29.09.2014
4 étoiles ClassicaDiamant d'Opéra5 Sterne Fono Forum KlassikIn der letzten Zeit scheinen sich Countertenöre mit Solorecitals gegenseitig überbieten zu wollen. Dabei schlägt nicht zuletzt die Eroberung eines wei ...
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Giulietta e Romeo
Franco Fagioli
Klassik - Erschienen bei Château de Versailles Spectacles am 27.08.2021
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Gonfio tu vedi il fiume
Franco Fagioli
Klassik - Erschienen bei naïve classique am 30.09.2013
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Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice / Orpheo - Highlights Of The Versions For Vienna (1762) And Paris (1774) (Live)
Franco Fagioli
Klassik - Erschienen bei Archiv Produktion am 11.09.2015
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Pergolesi : Adriano in Siria
Franco Fagioli
Klassik - Erschienen bei Decca Music Group Ltd. am 01.08.2016
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Handel Arias
Franco Fagioli
Klassik - Erschienen bei Deutsche Grammophon (DG) am 12.01.2018
Nachdem Philippe Jaroussky im Herbst eine Sammlung von Händel-Arien vorgelegt hat, ist nun Counter-Kollege Franco Fagioli an der Reihe. Schon die Tats ...
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Handel: Serse
Franco Fagioli
Klassik - Erschienen bei Deutsche Grammophon (DG) am 02.11.2018
Nachdem „Ombra mai fu“ verklungen ist, gesungen von Franco Fagioli in einem feinen Vibrato, wie es sonst nur den besten Mezzosopranistinnen zu Gebote ...
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Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice / Orpheo - Highlights Of The Versions For Vienna (1762) And Paris (1774) (Live)
Franco Fagioli
Klassik - Erschienen bei Archiv Produktion am 11.09.2015
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Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice (Live)
Franco Fagioli
Klassik - Erschienen bei Archiv Produktion am 11.09.2015
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Veni, Vidi, Vinci
Franco Fagioli
Klassik - Erschienen bei Deutsche Grammophon (DG) am 08.05.2020
Während in deutschen Landen ein gewisser Johann Sebastian Bach die Musik durch den Kontrapunkt zu einem Grad der Kompliziertheit steigerte, der dem si ...
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Rossini
Franco Fagioli
Klassik - Erschienen bei Deutsche Grammophon (DG) am 09.09.2016
Vor dem ersten Ton aus dem Lautsprecher eine gewisse Skepsis: Wollen die Countertenöre jetzt auch noch die Mezzosoprane im Belcantofach um ihre Jobs b ...
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Handel: Serse, HWV 40 / Act 1, "Ombra mai fu"
Franco Fagioli
Klassik - Erschienen bei Deutsche Grammophon (DG) am 15.12.2017
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Pergolesi: Adriano in Siria - "Sul mio cor so ben qual sia Farnaspe"
Franco Fagioli
Klassik - Erschienen bei Decca Music Group Ltd. am 01.07.2016
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Pergolesi: Adriano in Siria
Franco Fagioli
Klassik - Erschienen bei Decca Music Group Ltd. am 01.08.2016
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo