Bolshoi Theatre • Massimo Giordano

Tenor

Massimo
Giordano

Massimo Giordano

Born in Naples, Massimo Giordano has been acclaimed at most of the leading opera houses in the world, such as the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Paris Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Vienna State Opera, Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, Rome Opera, Metropolitan Opera, Zürich Opera House, Teatro alla Scala in Milan, and Bavarian State Opera in Munich.

Giordano studied flute and voice at the Conservatorio G. Tartini in Trieste, completing his vocal studies under Cecilia Fusco.

After winning numerous vocal competitions, Giordano made his professional debut in 1997 as the title role in Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito in Spoleto. In 2001, he debuted at the Teatro alla Scala in Verdi’s Il Giorno di Regno and at the Salzburg Festival as Fenton in Falstaff.

In 2021 he made a Bolshoi Theatre debut as Cavaradossi in Tosca.

Repertoire

Rodolfo (La Bohème) — Paris Opera, Bavarian State Opera, Vienna State Opera, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Berlin State Opera, Metropolitan opera, Los Angeles Opera

Alfredo (La Traviata) — Metropolitan opera, Bavarian State Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Berlin State Opera, Teatro Regio in Parma, Teatro Giuseppe Verdi in Trieste, Teatro alla Scala, Los Angeles Opera, Santa Fe Opera

Roméo (Roméo et Juliette) — Bavarian State Opera, Frankfurt Opera House, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Pittsburgh Opera

Des Grieux (Massenet’s Manon) — Teatro alla Scala, Vienna State Opera, Metropolitan Opera

Nemorino (L’elisir d’amore) — Opera de Monte Carlo, Vienna State Opera

Fenton (Falstaff) — Salzburg Festival, Semperoper Dresden, Royal Opera House Covent Garden

Rinuccio (Gianni Schicchi) — Metropolitan opera, Glyndebourne Festival

Lensky (Eugene Onegin) — Glyndebourne Festival

Don José (Carmen) — Deutsche Oper Berlin, Vienna State Opera, Zürich Opera, Arena di Verona Festival

Cavardossi (Tosca) — Dalas Opera, Bavarian State Opera, Vienna State Opera, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Semperoper Dresden, Stuttgart Opera, San Francisco Opera, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Opéra de Lyon

Don Carlo (Don Carlo) — Deutsche Oper Berlin, Dutch National Opera (Amsterdam), Stuttgart Opera, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

Gabriele Adorno (Simon Boccanegra) — Hamburg State Opera

Foresto (Attila) — Paris Opera, Opéra de Lyon

Des Grieux (Puccini’s Manon Lescaut) — Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Baden-Baden Festival

Werther (Massenet’s Werther) — Spoleto, Berlin, Zürich, Toulouse, Munich, Opera du Rhin in Strasbourg

Samson (Samson et Dalila) — Opera du Rhin in Strasbourg

Massimo Giordano often performs in concert and has sung Verdi’s Requiem under Riccardo Chailly in Amsterdam, Toulouse, Vienna, Dresden and Budapest, under Zubin Mehta in Tel Aviv, and under Gianluigi Gelmetti in Rome and Sydney. He has also worked with such conductors as Claudio Abbado, Bruno Campanella, Riccardo Chailly, Alain Guingal, Gabriele Ferro and Michel Plasson, and with such stage directors as Declan Donnellan, Alberto Fassini, Pierluigi Pizzi, Luca Ronconi, Graham Vick, and Franco Zeffirelli.

General partner of the Bolshoi Theatre — insurance company «Ingosstrakh»

Privileged sponsor of the Bolshoi Theatre — Tinkoff Bank

Privileged partner of the Bolshoi Theatre — GUM