Gianni Fabbrini, OPERA Masterclass

Gianni Fabbrini was born in Florence and graduated in piano from the Conservatory of his city, then furthering his studies in harpsichord and enrolling in the faculty of Musicology at the University of Florence while, at the same time, earning diplomas in Singing and Vocal Chamber Music. He worked for prestigious international concert and operatic venues: Festival d’Aix-en- Provence, Opéra National de Paris, Theatre Royale de La Monnaie (Brussels), Palau de Les Arts (Valencia), the Glyndebourne and Wexford Festivals, the Salzburg Osterfestspiele, Theater an der Wien, Festival Rossini (Wildbad), Wiener Konzerthaus, the Bremen Festival, the Dresden Semper Oper, the Seul National Opera Theatre, the Tokyo Bunkamura Orchid Hall, the Kyoto Biwako Hall, the Shanghai Symphony, the Baxter Theatre di Capetown; and, in Italy: the Rossini Opera Festival, Società Aquilana dei Concerti, Orchestra da Camera di Padova e del Veneto, Festival Pergolesi of Iesi, Estate Fiesolana, Orchestra Regionale della Toscana, Maggio Musicale and Amici della Musica of Florence, working as a performer or assisting such conductors as Claudio Abbado, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Donato Renzetti, Carlo Rizzi, Claudio Scimone, Alberto Zedda, Renè Jacobs, Marc Minkowski, Jeffrey Tate, Lu Ja, Emanuelle Haim.

In the operatic field, he has worked with internationally renowned directors, among them Peter Brook, Peter Stein, Jean Louis Martinoty, Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier, and with the Italians Pierluigi Pizzi, Mario Martone, Damiano Michieletto, Davide Livermore.