ARTIST

ARTIST

Francesco Meli(Tenor)

Francesco Meli was born in Genoa in 1980 and began his singing studies at 17, continuing with Vittorio Terranova and winning immediately several Competitions. In 2002 he made his operatic debuts at the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, beginning a career that, in the main Belcanto and Rossini roles, brought him immediately in the main Italian and European Houses : since 2005 he has opened new productions for Rossini Opera Festival, Théatre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, then Genova, Turin, Bologna, Venice, and making debuts in Zurich, Vienna, Covent Garden, Lyon, as well as on record with Virgin.

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In 2003 he made his La Scala debut in Les Dialogues des Carmelites conducted by Maestro Riccardo Muti and has returned there over the years to perform in Otello, Idomeneo, Don Giovanni, Maria Stuarda, Der Rosenkavalier, Carmen, Giovanna d’Arco, I due Foscari, Don Carlo, La traviata, Ernani, Tosca, Il Trovatore, Aida, L’elisir d’amore, Macbeth, Un ballo in Maschera and Don Carlo, opening for 6 times the Season of the House.

Since 2009 he has gradually turned his attention from Bel canto roles towards dramatic opera, singing I Lombardi alla Prima Crociata, Simon Boccanegra, Werther, Un ballo in maschera in Houses like Parma, Rome, the Arena in Verona, La Fenice, Amsterdam, Los Angeles : after his debut in Il Trovatore at La Fenice he sang it in new productions in Salzburg, Covent Garden, Amsterdam, Tokyo and Monte Carlo. He then sang notably I due Foscari in Covent Garden and at La Scala, Giovanna d’Arco in Salzburg and at La Scala : since 2013, the 200th anniversary of Verdi’s birth, he sang in Simon Boccanegra, I due Foscari, Ernani and in Nabucco at the Rome Opera and in Salzburg under Riccardo Muti, Ernani at the MET, Macbeth, Aida and Un ballo in Maschera conducted by Riccardo Muti with Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Simon Boccanegra in Vienna and at La Fenice, Aida at the Salzburg Festival conducted by Riccardo Muti and in new productions in Dresden and Covent Garden. Francesco Meli has a repertoire of over fifty roles and has performed under the world’s most eminent conductors, working regularly with Riccardo Chailly, Myung-Whun Chung, Fabio Luisi, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Gianandrea Noseda, Antonio Pappano, Daniele Rustioni, Christian Thielemann and Yuri Temirkanov. He has performed in solo recitals at La Scala and in London, Tokyo and St. Petersburg and in the Verdi Requiem with Riccardo Chailly, Daniele Gatti, Fabio Luisi, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Lorin Maazel, Gianandrea Noseda and Yuri Temirkanov at La Scala and in Baden-Baden, London, Dresden, Munich, Paris, Florence, Zurich, Moscow, Salzburg, St. Petersburg, Tokyo and Vienna.

In November 2021 he realeased “Prima Verdi”, his first album devoted to a single composer, by Warner. His recordings are available on a range of DVDs released by Deutsche Grammophon, Unitel and Opus Arte.

He is artistic director and one of the tutors at the Academy of Advanced Professional Training for opera singers at Genoa’s Teatro Carlo Felice.

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