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Meli Born in Genoa in 1980, Francesco Meli began his singing studies at seventeen with soprano Norma Palacios at his hometown’s School of Music.
In 2002 he has made his debut in Macbeth, Petite messe Solemnelle and Puccini’s Messa di Gloria, the latter broadcast by Rai, at the Festival dei due Mondi in Spoleto, and later sang in Don Giovanni and L’elisir d’amore at the Opera Giocosa in Savona, Almaviva in Barbiere di Siviglia with As.Li.Co..

He has immediately made his debuts in Lisbon (Edmondo in Manon Lescaut), Bologna (Elisir d’amore and Sonnambula), La Scala (Dialogues des Carmelites with Riccardo Muti and Otello), in Fidelio, L’elisir d’amore and Don Pasquale at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genova, Così fan tutte in Florence and Verona. He has opened the Rossini Festival in Pesaro in Bianca e Falliero and Torvaldo e Dorliska in two following seasons, Genova’s 2005/06 season in Don Giovanni and La Scala’s one in Idomeneo. He has made his debut in Zurich in Il barbiere di Siviglia, in Paris and at the Barbican in Don Giovanni, and he opened new productions of Don Giovanni at La Scala and in Valencia. He has sung La sonnambula in Lyon and Paris, released on Cd by Virgin, Anna Bolena in Verona, Elisir d’amore and Falstaff in Turin, his debut in Verona’s Arena in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Maria Stuarda at La Scala. He has made his debut in Vienna in Così fan tutte, conducted by Riccardo Muti, and sang new productions of Lucia di Lammermoor in Bologna, Falstaff in Paris, Maometto II in Pesaro. He made his Covent Garden and role debut with Rigoletto, and sang Don Pasquale in Turin and Bologna, La traviata in Turin, Rigoletto in Palermo, Simon Boccanegra and Werther in Parma.
He has worked with Luc Bondy, Robert Carsen, Hugo De Ana, Andrè Engel, Mario Martone, Pierluigi Pizzi, Graham Vick and has been conducted by Bruno Campanella, Daniel Harding, Lorin Maazel and Riccardo Muti, Gianandrea Noseda among the others.
Among his next engagements, his Met debut in Rigoletto, where he will also sing Traviata and a new Maria Stuarda, a new Anna Bolena and Simon Boccanegra in Vienna, Der Rosenkavalier at La Scala, a new Luisa Miller in Florence, Verdi’s Requiem in Rome with Yuri Temirkanov.