Fabio armiliato biography

Fabio Armiliato is one of the most important tenors on the international opera scene, acclaimed for his voice, his high register and connate musicality, his dramatic performances and the charisma which defines his characters.
Fabio Armiliato (born 17 August 1956, Genoa) is an Italian operatic tenor.
Fabio Armiliato is an Italian operatic tenor.

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Fabio Armiliato is one of the best-loved Italian tenors of the late 20th and early 21st century.

Born August 17, 1956, in Genoa, he has had a prominent international career, performing at such houses as the Metropolitan Opera, Vlaamse Opera, San Francisco Opera, La Scala, Monte Carlo, Florence, Opéra de Paris, and the New National Theatre Tokyo.

He also frequently performed with his wife Daniela Dessì, until her untimely death in 2016. The two recorded many operas together including “Andrea Chénier,” “La Traviata,” “Madama Butterfly,” “Manon Lescaut,” “Aida,” and “Tosca.”

His brother is noted conductor Marco Armiliato.

Major Roles

Armiliato has been best-known for his forays into the Italian verismo repertoire, dominating operas of Puccini, Giordano, Mascagni, and Leoncavallo. He was called “the best Chénier of our time” by L’Opera, though he has also been a strong interpreter of Verdi’s more dramatic operas.

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Armiliato

Fabio Armiliato, singer and actor, is one of the most important tenors of the international opera scene, acclaimed by the public for over three decades thanks to its unique vocal style, his impressive upper register and to his innate musicality , for not to mention his dramatic abilities and charisma that infuses in his characters. Born in Genoa, he studied at the Conservatory Niccolo Paganini of his city, and here he made his debut as Gabriele Adorno in Simon Boccanegra and began a rapid career that led him to address the most important roles of its register in the most prestigious theaters in the world. In 1993 he made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York with Il Trovatore (Verdi), returning later with Aida, Cavalleria Rusticana, Don Carlo, Simon Boccanegra , Tosca, Fedora, Madama Butterfly and Andrea Chenier. The latter, considered one of his most iconic roles, he received the proclamation from the critics of “best Chénier of our times”. Equally importance Fabio Armiliato gave to the role of Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, also sung at La Sc

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FABIO ARMILIATO – tenor

Fabio Armiliato is one of the most important tenors on the international opera scene, acclaimed for his voice, his high register and connate musicality, further his dramatic performances and the charisma which defines his characters.

Mr. Armiliato was born in Genoa where he graduated at the Niccolò Paganini Conservatoire. His debut in Simon Boccanegra of Verdi made an early and quick beginning to his career quickly and took him to take on the most important roles in several famous theatre's in the world, as the Metropolitan Opera House of New York, Teatro alla Scala in Milan, L’Opéra de Paris, the San Francisco Opera House, Teatro Real in Madrid and the Wiener Staatsoper.

As Mario Cavaradossi in Tosca, he is noted for his impassioned and exciting interpretation with which he had great success at the Arena of Verona, Teatro Real in Madrid, the Fenice of Venice and during a very important Japanese tour with the Opera of Rome. Cavaradossi is the role of his return at La Scala, conducted by Lorin Maazel, and to the Royal Opera House of Covent Garden in