Massimo Giordano

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Massimo Giordano (2012)

Massimo Giordano (born February 19, 1971 in Pompei ) is an Italian opera singer ( tenor ).

Life

Childhood and youth

Giordano was born into an Italian working class family. At the age of eight he moved with his family to Trieste , where he began studying the flute at the Conservatorio di musica Giuseppe Tartini . He successfully completed this in 1989. Shortly before completing his flute studies, he discovered his talent for singing by chance. In an empty classroom, he was singing a Napoleonic song for fun and was accompanied by a classmate on the piano. His talent came to light.

At the age of 18 he studied singing with Cecilia Fusco at the Trieste Conservatory. In 1997 he won the Bellini Singing Competition in Spoleto , where he also made his debut in Mozart's opera La clemenza di Tito at the Teatro Lirico and in Verdi's La traviata at the Teatro Nuovo.

Career

In the following years Massimo Giordano conquered the opera houses of Italy with performances in Reggio nell'Emilia, Parma , Modena, Rome, Venice, Naples and finally at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. In 1999 he performed as Principe Alexis at the Wexford Festival . In 2001 he made his debut at the Salzburg Festival ; there he sang under the direction of Claudio Abbado and Lorin Maazel . Performances at the Zurich Opera House , the Semperoper Dresden, the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse and the Teatro Real in Madrid followed.

In the following years, Massimo Giordano debuted among others in La Traviata in Tokyo, in Falstaff at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, elisir L'd'amore at the Vienna State Opera , Verdi's Messa da Requiem in Sydney, in La Traviata at at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and in Gianni Schicchi at the Glyndebourne Festival . He made his New York debut with a concert performance of Mignon at Carnegie Hall . Further appearances followed in Romeo and Juliet at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, in La Bohème at the State Opera Unter den Linden in Berlin and in Puccini's Ilertrico at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, where he later also performed Manon , La Traviata , La Bohème , L'elisir d'amore and Gianni Schicchi sang.

Another highlight in Massimo Giordano's career was a special performance of Verdi's Requiem in the Vatican in honor of the late Pope John Paul II shortly after his death in 2005. The worldwide radio broadcast of Massenet's Manon with Renée Fleming in 2006 is also one of the highlights of his career and his 2007 appearance as Rinuccio in an international television broadcast by Gianni Schicchi from Puccini's Trittico for the Metropolitan Opera under the direction of James Levine .

Giordano sang with conductors such as Claudio Abbado , Maurizio Benini , Riccardo Chailly , Bruno Campanella , Vladimir Fedoseyev , Gianluigi Gelmetti , James Levine , Lorin Maazel , Zubin Mehta , Vladimir Jurowski , Antonio Pappano , Michel Plasson , Yuri Temirkanov , Fabio Luisi and Marco Armiliato and at the side of famous singer colleagues.

In 2009 he went on a concert tour with Anna Netrebko .

First album

On October 29, 2012, Massimo Giordano signed an exclusive record deal with the BMG label . The album "Amore e Tormento" is his first solo recording and for Giordano a dream come true. The album, which was released on May 6, 2013, was recorded with the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence and is characterized by Italian arias.

Private life

Giordano is a passionate chess player, loves classical art and follows Italian football. Giordano lives with his wife Alexandrina and their two children in northern Italy.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Massimo Giordano homepage
  2. ↑ a b Interview "Massimo Giordano, in the evening when the curtain rises ..." ( Memento from September 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Der Neue Merker 04/2008, accessed on April 11, 2013
  3. ↑ a b c Massimo Giordano ( Memento of October 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) at the San Francisco Opera, accessed on April 11, 2013
  4. ↑ a b Massimo Giordano in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  5. ↑ Massimo Giordano. Archived from the original on April 29, 2013 ; accessed on October 4, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Massimo Giordano ( Memento from June 28, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) at Albion Media, accessed April 11, 2013
  7. ↑ "Massimo Giordano signs an exclusive master contract with BMG for his debut album" on massimogiordano.com, accessed on April 11, 2013
  8. ^ "Massimo Giordano produces a solo album in the heart of Florence" at massimogiordano.com, accessed on April 11, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Giordano, Massimo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian opera singer (tenor)
DATE OF BIRTH 19th February 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Pompei