Paolo Fanale
Paolo Fanale made his professional debut in 2007, interpreting Don Ottavio in Mozart’s Don Giovanni in Padua and since then his career has taken him on some of the most important venues all over the world. Among his recent and future engagements: Verdi’s Falstaff in Amsterdam and at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, Verdi’s La traviata at the Royal Opera House, Berlioz’s Les Troyens at La Scala, Don Giovanni at the New National Theatre in Tokyo and at the Salzburg Festival, Berlioz’s Roméo et Juliette in Paris under the baton of Daniele Gatti and in Monte Carlo, Donizetti's L’elisir d’amore in Marseille and Berlin, Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte at the Massimo Theatre in Palermo and at the Comunale Theatre in Bologna, Mozart’s Così fan tutte at the Bavarian State Opera and at the German Opera in Berlin, a recording of Verdi’s Aida and Magnificat under the baton of Antonio Pappano in Rome, Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande under the baton of Daniele Gatti in Florence, Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi in London, Mozart’s Lucio Silla on tour in Europe, and Falstaff directed by David McVicar at the Vienna State Opera. His repertoire also includes roles of Belmonte (Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Tito (Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito), Camille de Rosillon (Lehár’s Die lustige Witwe), Grimoaldo (Handel’s Rodelinda), Orphée (Gluck’s Orphée et Eurydice), Nicias (Massenet’s Thaïs), the Duke (Verdi’s Rigolleto), the title role in Gounod’s Faust, Romeo (Gounod’s Romeo et Juliette), Edgardo (Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor), and Rodolfo (Puccini’s La Bohème).
He has also performed with the Metropolitan Opera, Berlin State Opera, Theater an der Wien, Paris Opera, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Ancient Theatre of Orange, and opera houses of Oslo, Helsinki, Dublin, Tel Aviv, Strasbourg, Marseille, Nancy, Toulon, and Nice, Reina Sofía Palace of the Arts in Valencia, Liceu Theatre, Geneva Opera Theatre, Turin Royal Theatre, Carlo Felice Theatre in Genoa, San Carlo Theatre in Naples, Comunale Theatre in Verona, Verona Philharmonic Theatre, Comunale Theatre in Florence, Auditorium Parco Della Musica in Rome, and opera houses of Bologna, Modena, Piacenza, Reggio Emilia, Catania, Ancona, Sassari, Rovigo, Trento, Bolzano, Padova, Salerno, Martina France, Como, and Cremona. He has also appeared on French and Italian Radio.Paolo Fanale has also performed under batons of James Levine, Claudio Abbado, Kurt Masur, Zubin Metha, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Daniel Oren, Jordi Savall, Kirill Petrenko, Yves Abel, Frédéric Chaslin, and Patrick Fournillier. Among his stage partners, one can mention Plácido Domingo, Raúl Giménez, Diana Damrau, Sophie Koch, and Ambrogio Maestri.
At the Mikhailovsky Theare, Paolo Fanale has performed Tamino in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte in 2016.