MASSIMILIANO FICHERA - baritono
Education: - 1993: Degree at the "Conservatorio G.Tartini" in Trieste, Italy. Experiences: He won some of the most important singing contests, for instance: - 1991: Voltolini of Mantova "Premio M° Ettore Campogalliani", Italy; - 1994: "Gold Medal" at the Viotti of Vercelli, Italy - 1997: Winner of the singing contest "Voci Verdiane" of Busseto, Italy; - 2002: Absolute winner of the "International Contest Giuseppe Di Stefano" of Trapani, Italy; in July 2002 of the "Tito Gobbi Contest" in Bassano del Grappa, Italy, where he gained the Honour Plate "Tito Gobbi" as the best voice of Baritone. In October 2002 he also won the first prize of category at the first "Vocal Contest of Holy Music in Rome", Italy; - 2005: Absolute winner of the singing contest "Mattia Battistini" of Rieti, Italy; - 2006-2007: He sang at the "Lyrical Theater of Spoleto" to acclaim in Lucia di Lammermoor as well as in the Barbiere di Siviglia, opera with which he toured in Japan alongside Antonino Siragusa and Sonia Ganassi obtaining unanimous consensus; subsequelntly, he took part in the staging of "I pazzi" as a project of Donizetti directed by Marcello Panni at the Festival of Barga and made his first appearance in the role of Severo in Poliuto of G. Donizetti in Bergamo alongside Denia under the direction of Marco Balderi; - 2007: He performed as "Figaro" (the Marriage of Figaro) in Lyrical Theater of Spoleto as well as in other theaters of the Umbrian regional circuit in the production of the Barbiere di Siviglia; - 2008: He already sang in the "Trovatore" in Piedmont in the role of the "Conte di luna" as well as in the Barbiere di Sevilla (Figaro) with the Sperimental Lyrical Theater in Doha in the Arabic Emirates and again Figaro at the Theater of Volterra and at the San Gimignano of Arezzo for the IKO, Italy; He debut of "Rigoletto" at Spoleto with the Director Carlo Palleschi, in the "Barbiere di Seviglia" in Tuscany and Latium, in concerts at Nizza, in discographic recording of the oratory Evè for the Bongiovanni's record label at the sanctuary of Caravaggio Bergamo opposite Denia Mazzola Gavazzeni in Tosca in the role of Scarpia in Voghera, Lodi and Nice; - 2009: He sang Falk in the opera Pipistrello at the Cilea Theater of Reggio Calabria; Ezio in Attila at the Theater Superga of Nichelino and at Reggio Calabria ( February 2010); "Don Pasquale", in a tour in Friuli Venezia Giulia, is foreseen (July 2010) as well as Rigoletto in Umbria at the Theater of Spoleto, and at the Morlacchi in Perugia; Verdi at Terni, Assisi, Città del Castello; Don Pasquale Malatesta at the Teatro Vespasiano of Rieti and Volterra; a Concert together with Lucia Mazzaria in Padova; - 2010: He was in Japan "Xi'an" for 15 concerts for the archaeological heritage UNESCO inaugurated. He performed in some of the most important Opera Theaters in Italy and abroad, of which: The Opera Theatre in Rome, Theatre Rossini in Pesaro, Theatre Regio and Theatre Carignano in Turin, Theatre Chiabrera in Savona, Theatre Grande of Brescia, Theatre Petruzzelli of Bari, the Theatre Rendano in Cosenza, Puccini's Festival in Torre del Lago, The Theatre Sociale in Rovigo, The Municipale Theatre of Piacenza, Theatre Aquila of Fermo, Theatre Civico of Vercelli, Theatre Corte Malatestiana in Fano, Ente Luglio Musicale Trapanese, Theatre Bunkamura of Tokyo, Theatre Stadttheater of Giessen, Theatre du Casinò in Geneve, Palacio Congresos of Granata, Theatre Principal of Zaragoza, Lisboa, Barcelona, Paris, Aviles, Burgos, Korea He sang some of the leading parts of the romantic repertory; some of the operas are the following: "Le Nozze di Figaro", "I Puritani", "La Traviata", "Il Trovatore", "Rigoletto", "Ernani" ,"La Bohème", "Il Barbiere di Siviglia", "Carmen", "Lucia di Lammermoor", "Don Pasquale", "La Romanziera", "Pagliacci", "Turandot", "Cavalleria Rusticana", "Le Villi", "Madama Butterfly", "Simon Boccanegra", "I Vespri Siciliani", "Manon Lescaut", "Fedora", "Il Marchese di Roccaverdina", "Carmina Burana", the 9th. Symphony of Beethoven. Discography: For the Bongiovanni's record label in Pasqua Fiorentina by I. Capitanio, Elvida and La Romanziera of G. Donizetti, in Filanda by P. Mascagni, Messa Solenne by A. Mazzucato. For the Chicco Classic's record label he has recorded the Requiem by G. Fauré, and for the Niccolò's record label Le Villi by G. Puccini, EVE by Massenet. Collaborations: He has collaborated with musical Directors such as: Muti, Gelmetti, Mercurio, Rota, Tolomelli. Martin, Aprea, Parisi, Panni, Callegari, Panni. Among the producers we note De Tomasi, Crivelli, Esposito, Pressburger, Ferrari, Marco Carniti and Antonello. He has collaborated with artists such as Andrea Bocelli, Cecilia Gasdia, Maria Dragoni, Vincenzo La Scola, Nicola Martinucci, Barbara Hendricks, Renato Bruson, Katia Ricciarelli, Denia Mazzola Gavazzeni, Ghena Dimitrova, Francesca Patanè, Ganassi and Siragusa. |