フランコ・ファジョーリ
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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Messiah
Classical - Château de Versailles Spectacles 発売日 2023/11/17
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Handel : Opera Arias
Franco Fagioli, Il Pomo D'oro, Zefira Valova
Opera Extracts - Deutsche Grammophon (DG) 発売日 2018/01/12
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Anime Immortali
Franco Fagioli, Kammerorchester Basel, Daniel Bard
Opera - PentaTone 発売日 2023/04/14
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Handel : Serse
Classical - Deutsche Grammophon (DG) 発売日 2018/11/02
Gramophone Editor's Choice24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Il maestro Porpora : Arias
Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - naïve classique 発売日 2014/09/29
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Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice / Orpheo - Highlights Of The Versions For Vienna (1762) And Paris (1774) (Live)
Franco Fagioli, Malin Hartelius, Emmanuelle de Negri, Accentus Chamber Choir, Insula Orchestra, Accentus - Laurence Equilbey
Classical - Archiv Produktion 発売日 2015/09/11
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Giulietta e Romeo
Franco Fagioli, Adèle Charvet, Stefan Plewniak, Orchestre de l'Opéra Royal, Philippe Talbot
Classical - Château de Versailles Spectacles 発売日 2021/08/27
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Veni, Vidi, Vinci
Franco Fagioli, Il Pomo D'oro, Zefira Valova
Classical - Deutsche Grammophon (DG) 発売日 2020/05/08
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Arias for Caffarelli
Franco Fagioli, Il Pomo d'Oro, Riccardo Minasi
Classical - naïve classique 発売日 2013/09/09
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ロッシーニ:オペラ・アリア集
Franco Fagioli, Armonia Atenea, George Petrou
Classical - Deutsche Grammophon (DG) 発売日 2016/09/09
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Gluck : Orfeo ed Euridice (Live)
Franco Fagioli, Malin Hartelius, Emmanuelle de Negri, Accentus Chamber Choir, Insula Orchestra, Accentus - Laurence Equilbey
Classical - Archiv Produktion 発売日 2015/09/11
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Handel: Serse, HWV 40 / Act 1, "Ombra mai fu"
Franco Fagioli, Il Pomo D'oro, Zefira Valova
Classical - Deutsche Grammophon (DG) 発売日 2017/12/15
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ヘンデル:アリア集
Franco Fagioli, Il Pomo D'oro, Zefira Valova
Classical - Deutsche Grammophon (DG) 発売日 2018/01/12
Gramophone Editor's Choice16-Bit CD音質 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Canzone e Cantate
Franco Fagioli, Jörg Halubek, Luca Pianca, Marco Frezzato
Classical - Carus 発売日 2010/11/01
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ヘンデル:歌劇《セルセ》
Classical - Deutsche Grammophon (DG) 発売日 2018/11/02
Gramophone Editor's Choice16-Bit CD音質 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Gonfio tu vedi il fiume
Franco Fagioli, Riccardo Minasi, Il Pomo d'Oro, Pasquale Cafaro
Classical - naïve classique 発売日 2013/09/30
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Pergolesi: Adriano in Siria - "Sul mio cor so ben qual sia Farnaspe"
Franco Fagioli, Capella Cracoviensis, Jan Tomasz Adamus
Classical - Decca Music Group Ltd. 発売日 2016/07/01
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Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice / Orpheo - Highlights Of The Versions For Vienna (1762) And Paris (1774) (Live)
Franco Fagioli, Malin Hartelius, Emmanuelle de Negri, Accentus Chamber Choir, Insula Orchestra, Accentus - Laurence Equilbey
Classical - Archiv Produktion 発売日 2015/09/11
16-Bit CD音質 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Veni, Vidi, Vinci
Franco Fagioli, Il Pomo D'oro, Zefira Valova
Classical - Deutsche Grammophon (DG) 発売日 2020/05/08
16-Bit CD音質 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
ロッシーニ:オペラ・アリア集
Franco Fagioli, Armonia Atenea, George Petrou
Classical - Deutsche Grammophon (DG) 発売日 2016/09/09
16-Bit CD音質 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
グルック:歌劇《オルフェオとエウリディーチェ》 (Live)
Franco Fagioli, Malin Hartelius, Emmanuelle de Negri, Accentus Chamber Choir, Insula Orchestra, Accentus - Laurence Equilbey
Classical - Archiv Produktion 発売日 2015/09/11
16-Bit CD音質 44.1 kHz - Stereo