Massimo Giordano

Tenor

Born in Pompeii in Italy, at an early age tenor Massimo Giordano moved to Trieste where he began his musical and vocal studies. After completing his degree in flute, Giordano went on to specialise in vocals. Upon completion of his vocal studies he began to make appearances at all the major Italian theatres, among them the Teatro alla Scala in Milan (Rigoletto, La traviata, Un giorno di regno and Manon), the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome (Le Jongleur de Notre-Dame, La Rondine, La bohème and Verdi’s Requiem), the Teatro la Fenice in Venice (Don Pasquale), the Teatro San Carlo in Naples (Don Giovanni), the Teatro Verdi in Trieste (Don Pasquale and La traviata), the Teatro Regio in Turin (Don Giovanni and Verdi’s Requiem), the Teatro Regio in Parma (Roméo et Juliette and La traviata) and Teatro Massimo in Palermo (Lakmé).

Giordano’s international career then began to take off, with performances in many major opera houses including the Leipzig Opera (Verdi’s Requiem), the Deutsche Oper Berlin (La traviata and Werther), Carnegie Hall in New York (Mignon), the Frankfurt Opera (Roméo et Juliette), the Opéra de Monte Carlo (L’elisir d’amore), the Metropolitan Opera in New York (Manon and Gianni Schicchi), the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin (La bohème), the Sydney Philharmonia (La Rondine), the Lyric Opera of Chicago (Roméo et Juliette), the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (Falstaff), the Dallas Opera (La Rondine and Tosca), the Bayerische Staatsoper (Roméo et Juliette, La bohème, Werther and La traviata), the Los Angeles Opera (La bohème) and the Wiener Staatsoper (L’elisir d’amore, Roméo et Juliette and Manon). Massimo Giordano has also participated in the Osterfestspiele in Salzburg (Falstaff), the Salzburger Festspiele (Falstaff), the Santa Fe Opera Festival (La traviata) and the Glyndebourne Opera Festival (Gianni Schicchi and Eugene Onegin).

Massimo Giordano has worked with such leading conductors as Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Chailly, Bruno Campanella, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, James Levine, Vladimir Jurowski, Antonio Pappano, Michel Plasson and Yuri Temirkanov, and he has worked with prominent with stage directors including Franco Zeffirelli, Luca Ronconi, Pier Luigi Pizzi, Alberto Fassini, Declan Donnellan, Liliana Cavani and Graham Vick.

Recent highlights of Massimo Giordano’s career include a special performance of Verdi’s Requiem at the Vatican sacred to the memory of Pope John Paul II shortly after his death in 2005, the world-wide Metropolitan Opera radio broadcast of Massenet’s Manon with Renée Fleming in 2006 and performances as Rinuccio in an international television broadcast of Gianni Schicchi in Puccini’s Il trittico in 2007 for the Metropolitan Opera under the baton of James Levine.
In the 2008-09 season Massimo Giordano sang at the Metropolitan Opera, (La traviata and La bohème), the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (Tosca), the Bayerische Staatsoper (Werther), the Deutsche Staatsoper (Tosca), the Deutsche Opera in Berlin (Don José in  Carmen), the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari (Lancelot in Chausson’s Le Roi Arthus) and the Los Angeles Opera (La traviata).

Massimo Giordano has recently been praised for his extremely sensitive dramatic and vocal portrayal of Lensky in an extended run of performances of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin at the Glyndebourne Festival in 2008, conducted by Vladimir Jurowski and produced by Graham Vick.
In the 2009-2010 season, Massimo Giordano returns to Paris Opera (La bohème) and to the Staatsoper in Munich (La bohème). He will also appear at the Semperoper in Dresden (Tosca) and at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin (Carmen). Massimo Giordano will also be appearing at the Edinburgh Festival with a special concert performance of Macbeth and he will embark on a European recital tour singing duet concerts with Anna Netrebko.