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gagliardo.jpgMassimiliano Gagliardo was born in Savona and made his debut at a very young age at the Spalato Opera as Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor. He has then starter a brilliant career which brought him quickly to perform at: Teatro Regio in Parma, Teatro alla Scala in Milan (Armide and Don Giovanni conducted by Riccardo Muti, Adriana Lecouvreur, Mussorgsky’s Matrimonio), Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, Teatro Comunale in Florence and Bologna (Donizetti’s Dom Sebastien conducted by Daniele Gatti, the world premiere of Cantata della Vita composed and conducted by Gianluigi Gelmetti), Rome Opera (Michonnet in Adriana Lecouvreur conducted by Daniel Oren, Leporello in Don Giovanni, Silvio in I pagliacci, Papageno in Die Zauberflöte, Marcello in La bohème, Boniface in Massenet’s Le jongleur de Notre Dame, the world premiere of Respighi’s Marie Victoire, Così fan tutte, conducted by Gelmetti), Teatro Bellini in Catania (I Puritani for Bellini’s bicentenary), Teatro La Maestranza in Seville, Théâtre des Champs Élysées in Paris (Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia), Opéra de Montecarlo (Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali), Teatro Municipal in Santiago, Chile (Michonnet in Adriana Lecouvreur), Tokyo’s Bunka Kaikan and Nhk. He ha also been a guest of important Festivals such as Pesaro’s Rossini Opera Festival (Azio Corghi’s Isabella), the Wexford Festival Opera (Dargomyzkij’s Russalka and Massenet’s Sapho) and of prestigious concert halls such as the Accademia di Santa Cecilia (the european premiere of Luis Bacalov’s Misa Tango conducted by Chung and Podkolessin in Mussorgsky’s Matrimonio), Wien’s Konzerthaus (Martin y Soler’s Una cosa rara) and Amsterdam’s Konzertgebouw (Gianni Schicchi conducted by Riccardo Chailly).
He has been conducted by such important conductors as: Richard Bonynge, Riccardo Chailly, Myung-Whun Chung, Daniele Gatti, Gianiuigi Gelmetti, Riccardo Muti, Jordi Savall, Claudio Scimone, and has been directed by important directors such as Pier Luigi Pizzi, Giorgio Strehler and Franco Zeffirelli.
He has already held important vocal concerts (at the Teatro Regio in Parma, at La Scala and at the Comunale in Bologna), and has performed Schumann’s Liederkreis for the chamber season of the Teatro Comunale in Modena. His symphonic repertoire also includes Beethoven’s IX Symphony, Donizetti’s Messa da Requiem, Brahms’ A German Requiem and Puccini’s Messa di Gloria.
Among his recordings: Don Giovanni for Kikko Classic, Persiani’s Ines de Castro (Bongiovanni) and Massenet’s Sapho (Fonè). Naxos has just released a recording of Rossini’s Il turco in Italia which features him as Don Geronio and a Dvd of Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi recorded for the Christmas Concert at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw under Riccardo Chailly.