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Marcello Giordani (birth name Marcello Guagliardo; born 25 January 1963) is an Italian operatic tenor who has sung leading roles in opera houses throughout Europe and the United States. He has had a distinguished association with the New York Metropolitan Opera,[1] where he has sung in over 200 performances since his debut there in 1993. (He is not to be confused with another Italian tenor, Massimo Giordano, who toured with Anna Netrebko in 2009.) BiographyMarcello Giordani was born in 1963 in the small Sicilian town of Augusta. His father, a former prison guard, was the owner of a major gasoline station in the town, and his mother was a housewife. He showed a talent for singing at an early age and took private lessons in Augusta as well as singing in his church choir. When he was nineteen, he quit his job in a bank and moved to Milan where he studied voice with Nino Carta. Giordani made his professional operatic debut in 1986 as the Duke in Rigoletto at the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto. His debut at La Scala came two years later when he sang Rodolfo in La bohème. He went on to sing throughout Italy and Europe, and in 1988, he made his American debut singing Nadir in Les pêcheurs de perles with Portland Opera, a company with which he frequently appeared early in his career. Engagements with several other American opera companies followed, including San Francisco Opera, Seattle Opera, Los Angeles Opera and the Opera Company of Philadelphia. Giordani made his Metropolitan Opera debut in 1993 as Nemorino in a Parks performance of L'elisir d'amore opposite Maria Spacagna as Adina. His first performance on the actual stage at the Metropolitan Opera House was on December 11, 1995 as Rodolfo to Hei-Kyung Hong's Mimì with Carlo Rizzi conducting. In 1994, vocal problems which had begun to surface in the previous years became more acute. He began to retrain his voice with Bill Schuman in New York but did not cancel his engagements. In 1995 he sang Alfredo in La traviata at Covent Garden under Sir Georg Solti, whose guidance he credits as a great help in the rebuilding of his career. In 1997, Giordani again sang at Covent Garden under Solti (as Gabriele Adorno in Simon Boccanegra), in what turned out to be the final opera performances that Solti would ever conduct. His career at the Met, which had initially been sporadic, began to flourish. By the end of 2008 he had sung over 170 performances with the company, including the leading tenor roles in the Metropolitan Opera premieres of Benvenuto Cellini and Il pirata. He also sang in the Met's season opening performances in both 2006 (Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly) and 2007 (Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor), and on 18 September 2008, he was the tenor soloist in the Met's performance of Verdi's Requiem in memory of Luciano Pavarotti. Amongst the other opera houses and festivals where Giordani has performed during his career are the Opernhaus Zürich, Vienna State Opera, Opéra National de Paris, Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Houston Grand Opera, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Teatro Regio di Parma, Teatro Regio di Torino, Teatro Massimo Bellini di Catania, Arena di Verona, the Verbier Festival, and the Festival Puccini in Torre del Lago. In August 2008, Giordani appeared in concert with Salvatore Licitra and Ramón Vargas in Beijing's Great Hall of the People during the first week of the 2008 Olympic Games.[2] 2008 also saw his appointment as Artistic Director for Musical Events at Città della Notte, a new arts center near Augusta. In December 2008 he will gave his first master classes there.[3] In 2010, Giordani created the Marcello Giordani Foundation to help young opera singers at the beginning of their career. The first annual Marcello Giordani Vocal Competition was held in Sicily in 2011. Giordani met his wife, Wilma, when he was singing in Lucerne in 1988. They married two years later. The couple and their two sons live in New York and Sicily. Operatic repertoire{{col-begin}}{{col-2}}- Vincenzo Bellini
- Il pirata (Gualtiero)
- I puritani (Arturo)
- La straniera (Arturo)
- Hector Berlioz
- Benvenuto Cellini (Cellini)
- La damnation de Faust (Faust)
- Les Troyens (Énée)
- Requiem
- Georges Bizet
- Carmen (Don Jose)
- Les pêcheurs de perles (Nadir)
- Francesco Cilea
- Adriana Lecouvreur (Maurizio)
- Gaetano Donizetti
- La favorite (Fernand)
- La fille du régiment (Tonio)
- Lucia di Lammermoor (Edgardo)
- Lucrezia Borgia (Gennaro)
- L'elisir d'amore (Nemorino)
- Umberto Giordano
- Charles Gounod
- Faust (Faust)
- Roméo et Juliette (Romeo)
- Jules Massenet
- Manon (Des Grieux)
- Werther (Werther)
- Giacomo Meyerbeer
- Jacques Offenbach
- Les contes d'Hoffmann (Hoffmann)
{{col-break}}- Amilcare Ponchielli
- Giacomo Puccini
- Edgar (Edgar)
- La bohème (Rodolfo)
- La fanciulla del West (Dick Johnson)
- Madama Butterfly (Pinkerton)
- Manon Lescaut (Des Grieux)
- Tosca (Mario Cavaradossi)
- Turandot (Calaf)
- Gioachino Rossini
- Richard Strauss
- Der Rosenkavalier (Italian singer)
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Giuseppe Verdi
- Attila (Foresto)
- Don Carlo (Don Carlo)
- I vespri siciliani (Arrigo)
- Il trovatore (Manrico)
- La forza del destino (Alvaro)
- La traviata (Alfredo)
- Les vêpres siciliennes (Henri)
- Luisa Miller (Rodolfo)
- Requiem
- Rigoletto (The Duke)
- Simon Boccanegra (Gabriele Adorno)
- Un ballo in maschera (Riccardo)
- Ernani (Ernani)
- Riccardo Zandonai
- Francesca da Rimini (Paolo Malatesta)
{{col-end}}Discography- La bohème (Cristina Gallardo-Domâs, Elena Mosuc, Marcello Giordani, Michael Volle, Cheyne Davidson, László Polgár; Opernhaus Zürich Orchestra and Chorus; Franz Welser-Möst, conductor). Label: EMI Classics (DVD)
- La Gioconda (Lucia Mazzaria, Marcello Giordani, Alberto Mastromarino, Julia Gertseva, Lidia Tirendi, Michael Ryssov, Andrea Cortese, Valerio Saggi; Teatro Massimo Bellini di Catania Orchestra, Chorus, and Corps de Ballet; Donato Renzetti, conductor). Label: Kikko Classics (DVD)
- Madama Butterfly (Fiorenza Cedolins, Francesca Franci, Marcello Giordani, Juan Pons, Carlo Bosi; Arena di Verona Orchestra and Chorus; Daniel Oren, conductor). Label: TDK (DVD)
- Manon Lescaut (Karita Mattila, Marcello Giordani, Dwayne Croft, Dale Travis; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus; James Levine, conductor). Label: EMI Classics (DVD)
- Steven Mercurio: Many Voices (Andrea Bocelli, Marcello Giordani, Rolando Villazón, Sumi Jo, and Gino Quilico; Prague Philharmonic Orchestra; Steven Mercurio, conductor). Label: Sony/BMG (CD)
- A Midsummer Night's Dream – Soundtrack (Marcello Giordani, Cecilia Bartoli, Renée Fleming, Roberto Alagna) Label: Decca (CD)
- Sicilia Bella (Marcello Giordani, tenor; Teatro Massimo Bellini di Catania Orchestra; Steven Mercurio, conductor). Label: VAI (CD)
- Tenor Arias (Marcello Giordani, tenor; Teatro Massimo Bellini di Catania Orchestra; Steven Mercurio, conductor). Label: Naxos (CD)
- Jérusalem (Marcello Giordani, Roberto Scandiuzzi, Marina Mescheriakova; Orchestre de la Suisse Romande; Fabio Luisi, conductor). Label: Universal/Philips (CD)
- Viva Verdi A 100th Anniversary Celebration (Compilation – various artists). Label: Decca (CD)
References1. ^Kellow (February 2002); Barnes (March 2008)
2. ^Global Harmony – Divas in Beijing{{dead link|date=June 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}. Retrieved 3 December 2008.
3. ^Master class «Marcello Giordani» {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081031024911/http://www.marcellogiordani.com/news/PDF/masterclass_EN.pdf |date=2008-10-31 }}, Città della Notte. Retrieved 3 December 2008.
- Barnes, Scott, Singing Italian Style, Opera News, March 2008. Accessed 3 December 2008.
- Kellow, Brian, Dark Horse (cover story), Opera News, February 2002. Accessed 3 December 2008.
- Metropolitan Opera performance archives. Accessed 3 December 2008.
- Pasles, Chris, Sticking to ‘Real Italian Vowels’, Los Angeles Times, January 4, 1998. Accessed 3 December 2008.
External links- Marcello Giordani – official web site
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20080423084518/http://www.ateliermusicale.it/ArtistMain.aspx?ArtistCode=Giordani_Marcello Official biography], Atelier Musicale Artist Management
- Reviews, articles, photos and list of future performances for Marcello Giordani on TheOperaCritic.com
- Video
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY1EuuMJ6M8 Intervista al tenore Marcello Giordani] Interview (in Italian) – Augusta, January 2008
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l9IXFdyMjs "Nessun dorma" from Turandot] Marcello Giordani & Friends concert – Augusta, January 3, 2008
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090531070711/http://www.augustaonline.it/concerto_giordani_2008.html "E vui durmiti ancora"] Marcello Giordani & Friends concert – Augusta, January 3, 2008
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1knhsSVzFk "Cielo e mar" from La Gioconda] – Teatro Massimo Bellini, Catania, 2006
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0IIwCObcEc "Amis, amis secondez ma vengeance" from Guillaume Tell] – Opera Orchestra of New York, 2005
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osNDoDN_vtc Finale from Guillaume Tell] (Thomas Hampson, Marcello Giordani, Hasmik Papian, and Gaele Le Roi) – Opéra Bastille, 2003
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmhaO588waM "Sempre libera" from La traviata] (June Anderson and Marcello Giordani) – Avery Fisher Hall, New York, 1997.
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHgVjRY0OOA Final trio from Faust] (June Anderson, Marcello Giordani, and Jeffrey Wells) – Lincoln Center, New York, 1996
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FiUEQgCukE Act I duet from La traviata] (Carol Vaness and Marcello Giordani) – Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 10 July 1995
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPlSJ0IKbPM Sextet: "Chi mi frena in tal momento" from Lucia di Lammermoor] (Renée Fleming, Dolora Zajick, Luciano Pavarotti, Marcello Giordani, Paul Plishka, and Haijing Fu) – Lincoln Center, 1991
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