Voice: | Tenor |
Nationality: | Italian |
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Fabio Sartori (born 1970) is an Italian operatic tenor. He is particularly known for his interpretations of Italian roles by Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Puccini and of the Verismo.
Sartori was born in Treviso, in the Veneto region of Italy, and first worked as a welder. He began to study singing with Renato Bardi Barbon and subsequently obtained a diploma in voice at the Conservatorio di Musica Benedetto Marcello di Venezia, where his teacher was Leone Magiera.
Fabio Sartori was first a member of the choir of the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, where he made his made his professional operatic debut as a soloist as Rodolfo in La bohème in 1996. Already one year later he made his debut at the Teatro alla Scala in the season inauguration premiere of Giuseppe Verdi's Macbeth conducted by Riccardo Muti. In the same 1997/98 season he was the tenor soloist of Giuseppe Verdi's Messa da Requiem, also conducted by Muti with La Scala and Barbara Frittoli, Luciana d'Intino and Roberto Scandiuzzi. In 1998, he debuted in two important Verdi roles: Gabriele Adorno in Simon Boccanegra at the Teatro Comunale of Bologna and the title role of Don Carlo, again in Bologna and at Teatro Regio of Parma. He debuted in Berlin in 1999 in Simon Boccanegra conducted by Claudio Abbado. In the same year he debuted at the Vienna State Opera in Linda di Chamounix, and at the Chicago Lyric Opera in I Capuleti e i Montecchi. This was the beginning of an international career that led him to all of the most important opera houses and festivals.