Counter | Baroque Opera | Virtuoso
Franco Fagioli is one of the leading countertenors of our time. He is known for both his virtuoso artistry and his masterful technique. An extensive discography of award-winning albums is available from this internationally performing artist. As an exclusive artist of Deutsche Grammophon he recorded the albums "Rossini", "Ombra mai fu - Arias by Händel" and "Veni - Vidi - Vinci - Arias by Vinci".
Ophelias Culture PR has been advising the artist since 2013 in all matters of public appearance and internationally manages his numerous albums as well as his engagements.
Franco Fagioli is one of the leading countertenors of our time. He is known for both his virtuoso artistry and his masterful technique. An extensive discography of award-winning albums is available from this internationally performing artist. As an exclusive artist of Deutsche Grammophon he recorded the albums "Rossini", "Ombra mai fu - Arias by Händel" and "Veni - Vidi - Vinci - Arias by Vinci".
Ophelias Culture PR has been advising the artist since 2013 in all matters of public appearance and internationally manages his numerous albums as well as his engagements.
Highlights of the 2019/20 season were the premiere of Carlo il Calvo at the new baroque opera festival Bayreuth Baroque, in which Franco Fagioli gave the noble knight Adalgiso, his Nerone in Handel's Agrippina at the Royal Opera House and the title role in Rossini's Sigismondo at the Teatr Słowackiego in Krakow.
In recent years Franco Fagioli has been engaged as an expert in virtuoso baroque roles on the major opera stages in Europe, including the Opéra national de Paris, the Dutch National Opera, the Bavarian State Opera, the Opéra national de Lorraine, repeatedly at the Royal Opera House, the Teatro alla Scala, the Hamburg State Opera, the Karlsruhe International Handel Festival, the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, the Opéra de Lille, the Theatre de Caen, as well as the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires and the Zurich Opera House.
He has also been featured as a concert artist at the Handel Festival in Halle, Salzburg Festival, Innsbruck Early Music Days, and works regularly with conductors such as Rinaldo Alessandrini, Alan Curtis, Gabriel Garrido, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, René Jacobs, José Manuel Quintana, Marc Minkowski, Riccardo Muti and Christophe Rousset. His other partners include il Pomo d'Oro and the Basel Chamber Orchestra.
His impressive discography includes the title roles in Handel's Serse and Gluck's Orfeo and Ezio, Pergolesi's Adriano in Syria, Handel's Berenice and Teseo, Leonardo Vinci's Artaserse and Catone in Utica, Caldara's La Concordia de 'pianeti, Hasse's Siroe, rè di Persia and the solo albums Arias for Caffarelli and Il maestro Porpora.
