Massimo Giordano
Massimo Giordano ( born February 19, 1971 in Pompei) is one of the leading opera singer, and present at international opera houses. He is Artist of the most important operatic roles in the most important houses in the world.
Life
Childhood and youth
Giordano was born in an Italian working class family. At the age of eight he moved with his family to Trieste, where he took up a flute studies at the Conservatorio di Musica Giuseppe Tartini. This he graduated in 1989 successfully. Shortly before the completion of his flute studies, he discovered by chance his talent for singing. In an empty classroom, he sang for fun neapolisches a song and was accompanied by a classmate on the piano. At that moment he discovered his talent.
At 18, he studied singing with Cecilia Fusco also at the Conservatory of Trieste. In 1997, he won the Bellini Singing Competition in Spoleto, where he gave 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 the young Massimo Giordano conquered the opera houses in Italy with performances in Reggio Emilia, Parma, Modena, Rome, Venice, Naples and finally at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. His debut outside Italy took place at the Salzburg Festival in 2001; where he sang under the baton of Claudio Abbado and Lorin Maazel. Performances at the Opera House Zurich, Dresden's Semper Opera, the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse and at the Teatro Real in Madrid followed.
In the following years, Massimo Giordano made his debut in La Traviata, among others, in Tokyo, in Falstaff at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, L'elisir d'amore at the Vienna State Opera, Verdi's Messa da Requiem in Sydney, in La Traviata at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and in Gianni Schicchi at the Glyndebourne Festival. His New York debut, he celebrated with a concert performance of Mignon at Carnegie Hall. More gigs followed in Romeo and Juliet at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, La Bohème at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin and in Puccini's Il trittico at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, where he later 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 at the Vatican in honor of the late Pope John Paul II shortly after his death in 2005. Services, worldwide radio broadcast of Massenet's Manon with Renée Fleming in 2006 is one of the highlights of his career as well as its appearance in 2007 as Rinuccio in an international television broadcast from Gianni Schicchi from Puccini's Trittico for the Metropolitan Opera under the baton of James Levine.
Giordano has sung under such conductors as Claudio Abbado, Maurizio Benini, Riccardo Chailly, Bruno Campanella, Vladimir Fedosseyev, Gianluigi Gelmetti, James Levine, Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, Vladimir Jurowski, Antonio Pappano, Michel Plasson, Yuri Temirkanov, Fabio Luisi or Marco Armiliato and on the side of famous singers colleagues.
In 2009, he was with Anna Netrebko on tour.
First album
On October 29, 2012 Massimo Giordano signed an exclusive recording contract with the label BMG. The album " Amore e Tormento " is his first solo recording for Giordano and the realization of a dream. The album, which was released on May 6, 2013 were recorded with the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence and is dominated by Italian arias.
Private life
Giordano is a passionate chess player, loves classical art and pursues the Italian football. He heard in his youth, Heavy Metal, and is now all music genres open-minded about. Giordano lives with his wife Alexandrina and two children in northern Italy.