Paolo Fanale

In the recent seasons, Italian tenor Paolo Fanale makes his debut at the Royal Opera House in London as Rinuccio (Gianni Schicchi), at the Wiener Staatsoper as Fenton in Falstaff and at Teatro dell’Opera di Roma as Roberto Leicester in Maria Stuarda. He sings Die Zauberflöte at Festival Soirées Lyriques de Sanxay, a concert version of Lucia di Lammermoor at Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Così fan tutte at the Bayerische Staatsoper, a concert version of La Favorite at Opéra de Marseille, Don Giovanni at the Berlin Staatsoper, Dresden Semperoper, Comunale di Bologna and in concert with NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover. He appeared in La clemenza di Tito at Opéra de Losanne and at Gran Teatre del Liceu, L’Elisir d’Amore and Les Troyens at the Wiener Staatsoper, Così fan tutte at the Royal Opera House and at Las Palmas Opera, Iphigénie en Tauride at Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Eugene Onegin at Matsumoto Festival, Die Zauberflöte at Dallas Opera, Paër’s Leonora at Innsbruck Festival, Maria Stuarda at Opernhaus Zurich, as well as in Rossini’s Stabat Mater with Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and in Mozart’s Coronation Mass with Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo. Most recently, he was Ferrando at the Berlin Staatsoper in a new production of Così fan tutte conducted by M° Barenboim, Ernesto in Don Pasquale at Opera Las Palmas, Tito in La clemenza di Tito at ABAO Olbe Bilbao, where he also sang  Rossini’s Stabat Mater.

Most recently we saw him appear in Idomeneo at the Metropolitan Opera, Norma and Mitridate Re di Ponto at Opéra de Lausanne, Norma at Palm Beach Opera, La traviata at Staatsoper Berlin, at Tampere Opera and in Bogotà, Il pirata with the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra.

Fanale was born in Palermo and studied at the Conservatorio Vincenzo Bellini. He made his professional debut as Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni) in Padua. He has since sung for such companies as La Scala, Milan, the Metropolitan Opera, New York, Opéra National de Paris, Théâtre du Châtelet,