Massimo Giordano has been acclaimed at most of the leading opera houses in the world such as the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Paris Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Vienna State Opera, Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, Rome Opera, Metropolitan Opera, Zürich Opera House, Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Bavarian State Opera in Munich, and many others. In the current season, Giordano makes his debut at both the Staatstheater Stuttgart and Polish National Opera in Warsaw as Cavaradossi in Tosca, a role which he will also sing at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. He will later return to the Berlin State Opera as Alfredo in La Traviata and appear as Pollione in Norma with the Moscow State Philharmonic Society.
Mr Giordano began the 2017/18 season with his first performances of Gabriele Adorno in Simon Boccanegra at the Hamburg State Opera, after which he returned to Covent Garden, the Rome Opera and the Vienna State Opera as Cavaradossi. The tenor also made his debut at the Opera National du Rhin in Strasbourg in the title role in Werther and joined the Opera de Lyon as Foresto in concert performances of Attila in Lyon and Paris. Concert performances also included La boheme with the Kaohsiung Symphony Orchestra in Taiwan and Puccini’s Messa di Gloria with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony.
Highlights from Mr Giordano’s previous seasons include Don José in Carmen at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Arena di Verona, Vienna State Opera and Zürich Opera; Cavaradossi at the Bavarian State Opera, Vienna State Opera, Semperoper Dresden, Berlin State Opera and Dallas Opera; Rodolfo in La boheme at the Paris Opera, Bavarian State Opera, Vienna State Opera, Covent Garden, Berlin State Opera, Metropolitan Opera and Los Angeles Opera; Alfredo at the Metropolitan Opera, Bavarian State Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Bolshoi Theatre, Teatro Regio in Parma, Teatro Giuseppe Verdi in Trieste, Teatro alla Scala (under Lorin Maazel), Los Angeles Opera and Santa Fe Opera (for his American stage debut); Roméo in Roméo et Juliette at the Bavarian State Opera, Frankfurt Opera House, Lyric Opera of Chicago and Pittsburgh Opera; Wertherat the Bavarian State Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin and Zürich Opera House; Des Grieux in Manon at the Teatro alla Scala, Vienna State Opera (opposite Anna Netrebko) and Metropolitan Opera (opposite Renée Fleming); Nemorino in L’elisir d’amore at the Opera de Monte Carlo and Vienna State Opera; Fenton in Falstaff at the Semperoper Dresden and Covent Garden (under Antonio Pappano); Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi at the Metropolitan Opera (under James Levine) and Glyndebourne Festival (under Vladimir Jurowski); and a European duet recital tour with Anna Netrebko.
Massimo Giordano studied flute and voice at the Conservatorio G. Tartini in Trieste and completed his vocal studies under Cecilia Fusco. After winning numerous vocal competitions, Mr Giordano made his professional debut in 1997 in the title role in Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito in Spoleto. In 2001 he debuted at the Teatro alla Scala in Verdi’s Il Giorno di Regno and at the Salzburg Festival as Fenton in Falstaff (under Claudio Abbado and later under Lorin Maazel).
Giordano often performs in concert and has sung Verdi’s Requiem under Riccardo Chailly in Amsterdam, Toulouse, Vienna, Dresden and Budapest, under Zubin Mehta in Tel Aviv, and under Gianluigi Gelmetti in Rome and Sydney. He has also worked with such conductors as Claudio Abbado, Bruno Campanella, Riccardo Chailly, Alain Guingal, Gabriele Ferro and Michel Plasson and with such stage directors as Declan Donnellan, Alberto Fassini, Pierluigi Pizzi, Luca Ronconi, Graham Vick, and Franco Zeffirelli.
(photo: Marisa Crawford)
