Francesco Meli

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Francesco Meli (left) with Anna Netrebko and Plácido Domingo in Il trovatore , Salzburg Festival 2014

Francesco Meli (born May 15, 1980 in Genoa ) is an Italian opera singer ( tenor ) who specializes in bel canto.

Life

Meli began his vocal training at the age of 17 with Norma Palacios at the “Niccolò Paganini” Conservatory in his hometown, after which he studied with Franca Mattiucci and Vittorio Terranova . In 2002 he made his debut in Verdi's Macbeth at the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto and subsequently sang at the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos in Lisbon, at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna in Bologna, at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, on Zurich Opera House , at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona and at the Teatro Regio di Torino in Turin.

Scala, London, Paris, Met, Vienna State Opera

The young tenor was quickly engaged by almost all of Italy's major opera houses. The Chevalier de la Force in Francis Poulenc's rarely performed opera Dialogues des Carmélites under the direction of Riccardo Muti and with Anja Silja in 2004 at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan is considered to be Meli's breakthrough on the international opera scene . In this production he was also seen and heard at the Teatro Regio di Torino and the Royal Opera House in London, at the Opéra National de Lyon and at the Zurich Opera House, as well as at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro . This role is atypical for the singer's repertoire, he preferably sings the classical bel canto subject from Gaetano Donizetti and Bellini to Rossini to the early Verdi , further three Mozart roles ( Don Ottavio , Ferrando and Arbace ), the title role in Massenet's Werther , as well as Puccini 's Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi and Des Grieux in Manon Lescaut . His Nemorino in L'elisir d'amore , which he sang throughout Italy, at the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg and in Beijing , and his Duca di Mantova in Verdi's Rigoletto , with which he performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New in 2009, are particularly in demand York made his debut, and his Don Ottavio in Mozart's Don Giovanni , which took him to the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, Valencia and the Hungarian State Opera in Budapest , again to La Scala and back to his hometown.

At the festive season opening of La Scala he sang Arbace in Idomeneo in 2005 and in 2011 also the singer in Rosenkavalier at this house . In the Arena di Verona , Meli played Almaviva in Rossini Il barbiere di Siviglia (2007 and 2009), Alfredo in Verdi's La traviata (2011 and 2013), and in 2014 Riccardo in the masked ball for the opening of the 92nd Arena-di-Verona- Festival. In 2013 and 2014 he was also heard in the arena in gala concerts with Plácido Domingo .

In 2008 Meli made her debut at the Vienna State Opera in a celebrated Così fan tutte revival under the direction of Riccardo Muti , with Frittoli , Kirchschlager , D'Arcangelo , Tătulescu and De Carolis singing alongside Meli . In 2011, he gave the equally acclaimed State Opera premiere of Donizetti's Anna Bolena with Anna Netrebko in the title role and Elīna Garanča as Giovanna Seymour. In 2011 and 2012 he was Gabriele Adorno in eight performances of Verdi's Simon Boccanegra , conducted by Myung-Whun Chung .

Long-term collaboration also connects the singer with the Teatro La Fenice in Venice. He sang at this house a. a. the Ubaldo in Pia de 'Tolomei , the Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor and the Manrico in the Trovatore . In Pesaro and Tokyo he played Paolo Erisso in Rossini's seldom played Maometto secondo . At the Teatro Regio di Torino in 2009 he was able to achieve great personal success as Ernesto in Don Pasquale - with his wife Serena Gamberoni as Norina. In 2013 he made his debut as Alfredo at the Muscat Opera in the Sultanate of Oman and sang the title role in Verdi's Ernani for the first time at the Roman Opera .

Salzburg Festival

In 2013 the singer made his successful debut at the Salzburg Festival : he took on - each in concert performances on Giuseppe Verdi's 200th birthday - the Ismaele in Nabucco (with choir and orchestra of the Opera di Roma under Riccardo Muti) and Carlo VII in Giovanna d ' Arco at the side of Anna Netrebko and Plácido Domingo .

In the summer of 2014 Meli sang Manrico in a new production of Il trovatore (staged by Alvis Hermanis , conductor Daniele Gatti , other roles: Anna Netrebko and Plácido Domingo), this production was also broadcast live on television.

2017 Meli sang in 2017 in Aida the Radamès on the side of Anna Netrebko.

In the concert hall

On the concert podium Meli u. a. to be heard in Spoleto and Pesaro with the tenor solos from Rossini's Petite Messe solennelle and Puccini's Messa . He also sang Verdi's Messa da Requiem in numerous performances . a. in Verbier , London and Madrid, as well as throughout Italy, under the direction of well-known conductors such as Daniele Gatti , Lorin Maazel , Riccardo Muti , Gianandrea Noseda and Juri Temirkanow .

The artist also played a number of solo programs in London, Tokyo, Oslo, Poznań and Pesaro.

Personal

Meli is married to the soprano Serena Gamberoni and the couple have three children. The two sang together in the following operas: L'elisir d'amore , Don Pasquale , Werther , Così fan tutte , La Bohème , Gianni Schicchi , Un ballo in maschera .

Audio documents

Reviews and interviews

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on the Hamburg State Opera website ( Memento from August 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on August 8, 2014
  2. ^ Curriculum vitae on one page of the Salzburg Festival , accessed on August 8, 2014
  3. ↑ Kirsten Liese: Opera review: Salzburg Festival - Aida: More than a pure Netrebko event. Concerti, August 14, 2017, accessed September 4, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Meli, Francesco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian opera singer (tenor) of the bel canto subject
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Genoa