Flavio Ferri-Benedetti

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Flavio Ferri-Benedetti (Countertenor) (Photo by JuanFran Lluch - 2017)
Flavio Ferri-Benedetti, 2017

Flavio Ferri-Benedetti (born March 24, 1983 in Scandiano ) is an Italian singer ( countertenor ), singing teacher, translator and musicologist.

Life

Ferri-Benedetti's grandfather Silvano Proietti (1900–1962) was an opera tenor. In 1927 he changed his name to Silvano Benedetti .

Flavio (baptismal name: Flavio Vincenzo Domenico) Ferri-Benedetti was born in Scandiano, Italy. The family moved to Spain when he was eleven years old. In 2005 he obtained an MA in translation and interpreting from the Jaume I University in Castellón de la Plana and in 2004 obtained a diploma with honors in piano from the Conservatory in Vila-real . In 2014 he received his doctorate in literature “cum laude” from the Universidad de Valencia (Philological Faculty) with a dissertation on the classical tradition at Metastasio .

At the age of 17 he made his debut as a countertenor in Mozart's Vesperae solennes de Confessore (December 2000, Castellón, Spain). He received his first singing lessons at the age of 19. In 2006 he was awarded the “Premio Velluti” as a countertenor in Corridonia (Italy), a prize for young countertenor artists named after the castrato Giovanni Battista Velluti (1780–1861). In 2009 he was nominated for the title of “Young Artist of the Year” in Opernwelt magazine's critics survey for his role in Scarlatti's Penelope la Casta and won 3rd prize at the International Sacred Music Competition in Rome. In 2010 he was again nominated as “Young Artist of the Year” in the Opernwelt yearbook.

In 2008 he received his BA in historical singing from Gerd Türk at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel . In 2010 he completed his master's degree in historical singing with distinction. He took part in master classes from Andreas Scholl , Evelyn Tubb and Anthony Rooley , among others . Mezzo-soprano Lina Maria Åkerlund has been the voice coach since 2010 .

Since 2012 he has been teaching the workshops “Italian for Singers” at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (SCB) as a guest lecturer and in spring 2015 was a singing teacher at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK).

From August 2018 he will be a lecturer at the ZHdK for "Historical Performance Practice of Singing".

Since autumn 2019 he has been working at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis as a répétiteur and “coach for singing”.

Singing work

Flavio Ferri-Benedetti specializes in baroque operas, especially in the Italian style, sacred music and song.

He works regularly with various ensembles for baroque music. His operatic appearances (stage or concert) include:

Since 2000 he has given performances of sacred works and oratorios by Johann Sebastian Bach , Georg Friedrich Händel , Antonio Vivaldi , Giovanni Battista Pergolesi , Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Heinrich Schütz etc.

Academic work

Ferri-Benedetti teaches master classes, in 2011 for the first time at the Musikhochschule Winterthur / Zurich and since 2012 "Italian for Singers" at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel. He is involved in the translation and proofreading of musical texts and music editions into Italian, Spanish, English and Catalan and publishes scientific articles.

He has been a permanent lecturer at the Zurich University of the Arts since 2018 (minor in historical singing) and since 2019 at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (coach for singing / accompanist).

Publications

  • Editing of the Urtext edition by Issipile ( Francesco Bartolomeo Conti and Pietro Metastasio ) with an introduction by Gran Tonante, 2011
  • El legado de la tradición clásica. El caso de la ópera barroca. In: Florentia Iliberritana 23, 2012, pp. 45-62.
  • Hypsipyle from Lemnos to Vienna: An Approach to the Metastasian Heroine. In: Tycho: Revista de Iniciación en la Investigación del teatro clásico grecolatino y su tradición 1, 2013, pp. 9–38.
  • "La tua Grecia, la quale a me non è Dio": Martello y Metastasio reinterpretando a Aristóteles. In: HUMANITAS LXV, 2013, pp. 219-250.
  • El hilo de Hipsípila: Metastasio y la Tradición Clásica . Levante editori, Bari, 2015, ISBN 978-88-7949-654-4 .
  • Metastasio adaptado para el teatro español: el caso de la "Issipile". In: Homenaje al Profesor Juan Gil, Vol. V: Humanismo y Pervivencia del Mundo Clásico, 2015, pp. 2501-2523.
  • Florilegium: Antologia Poetica (1999-2016) . Levante editori, Bari, 2017, ISBN 978-88-7949-674-2 .
  • Rules for Measured Music, Counterpoint and Accompanying (Anonymous, MS E.25 Bologna), Translation by Flavio Ferri-Benedetti, EarlyMusicSources.com, 2019, ISBN 978-3-033-07664-8

Recordings / discography

2010

2012

  • Passo di pena in pena: Cantate Italiane, with the Ensemble Il Profondo, Johannes Keller; Cantus Records

2013

2014

2016

  • Arias for Domenico Annibali - The Dresden Star Castrato, with the Ensemble Il Basilico, Concertino Eva Saladin; Pan Classics
  • Georg Friedrich Handel - Messiah , with Musica Fiorita, cond. Daniela Dolci; Pan Classics
  • Si no os hubiera mirado , madrigals by Juan Vásquez, with the ensemble Los Afectos Diversos, Dir. Nacho Rodríguez; Itinerant Records

2017

2018

  • Fiamma vorace - Opera arias and Sinfonias by Geminiano Giacomelli , with Musica Fiorita, cond. Daniela Dolci; Pan Classics
  • Johann Sebastian Bach - Christmas Oratorio , with Musica Fiorita, cond. Daniela Dolci; Pan Classics
  • Antonio Soler: Obra vocal en latín , with La Grande Chapelle, cond. Albert Recasens; Lauda

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cambiamento di cognome. In: Gazzetta Ufficiale del Regno d'Italia of October 10, 1927 ( Online, PDF, p. 4 )
  2. ^ Note that the cast was changed for the performance of Niobe in the Dortmund Konzerthaus on January 31, 2015
  3. ↑ a b Ferri-Benedetti's official homepage
  4. ↑ Biography at the Zurich University of the Arts , accessed on June 24, 2018.
  5. ↑ New accompanist / coach for singing September 2019: Flavio Ferri Benedetti. Retrieved July 20, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Publishing house at Gran Tonante
  7. ↑ Title search via dialnet
  8. ^ Journal website at the University of Valencia
  9. ↑ Title search via dialnet
  10. ↑ Title search via dialnet
  11. ↑ Title search via Levante editori
  12. ↑ record to Metastasio adaptado para el teatro españolel caso de la "Issipile" in Dialnet
  13. ↑ LEVANTE EDITORI - BIBLIOTECHINA DI TERSITE 34. Accessed August 12, 2017 .
  14. ↑ CD description at Glossa
  15. ^ CD description at Cantus
  16. ↑ CD description at Naxos
personal data
SURNAME Ferri-Benedetti, Flavio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian opera singer (countertenor)
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Scandiano