He studied with Graziano Polidori; he took part in numerous singing competitions, winning the Mozart Competition at the Teatro Lirico in Cagliari and the special prize at the Toti dal Monte competition in Treviso where, after attending the advanced course with the famous mezzo-soprano Regina Resnik, he made his debut in the role of Valentin in Gounod’s Faust.
Viviani works in the most important stages worldwide, such as: Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova, Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, Canadian Opera, San Francisco Opera, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Palau de les Arts in Valencia, Teatro Real de Madrid, Teatro La Fenice, Teatro alla Scala, Teatro San Carlo, Teatro de la Maestranza in Sevilla, Opéra de Bastille, Wiener Staatsoper, Royal Opera House, Deutsche Oper, Hamburgische Staatsoper, Staatsoper in Berlin.
His vast repertoire includes roles such as Renato (Un Ballo in maschera), Simon Boccanegra, Giovanni lo Sciancato (Francesca da Rimini), Barone Scarpia (Tosca), Tonio (Pagliacci), Nabucco, Carlo Gerard (Andrea Chenier), Rodrigo (Don Carlo).
In the last seasons he sang L’Elisir d’amore at Teatro San Carlo di Napoli and at Opéra Bastille, Tosca at Royal Opera House, at ABAO Olbe in Bilbao, at Teatro Comunale di Bologna e San Carlo, La Fanciulla del West at Tetro Regio di Torino, Nabucco at Opera di Losanna e at Savonlinna Opera Festival.
He worked with conductors such as Nicola Luisotti, Giacomo Sagripanti, Daniele Rustioni, Carlo Montanaro, Pier Giorgio Morandi, Hernik Nanasi, Zubin Mehta, Daniel Oren, Riccardo Muti, and with stage directors such as Hugo de Ana, Zeffirelli, Pier Alli, Gabriele Lavia, Calixo Bieto, Damiano Michieletto, among others.
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“Interestingly, though, Sharpless, whose “Damn you, Pinkerton” can be so telling, is not directed with such imagination, although the role was decisively sung by Gabriel Viviani.”
Peter Reed, Classical Source
“Parmi les rôles on aura remarqué l’excellent Consul américain Sharpless incarné par le baryton Gabriele Viviani dont la voix à la fois souple et puissante a eu tendance à éclipser celle de […]”
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