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INTRODUCTION
The protagonist of the new production of Giuseppe Verdi’s I due Foscari of Alvis Hermanis at Teatro Carlo Felice in Genova, Fabio Sartori, talked to Alex Suciu about the role of Jacopo Foscari, its vocal peculiarities, and the singer’s relationship with this role, about Hermanis’ staging, and about Sartori’s favourite Verdian composition phase from a vocal perspective. The tenor shared with us the story of the beginning of his career: the most difficult technical skills to achieve and the things he wishes he had found out earlier on this road, kindly advising the younger generation. Keep reading & found out more about Fabio Sartori’s experiences throughout his career! Find the review of I due Foscari by Alex Suciu on our website. OPERA Charm wants to thank Theater for having us as their guests on this occasion and to Mr Sartori’s team for facilitating this interview!
BIOGRAPHY
Born in Treviso, tenor Fabio Sartori completed his music studies at the Conservatory of Benedetto Marcello in Venice under guidance of Leone Magiera. He made his professional debut at the Teatro La Fenice as Rodolfo in La Bohème. The following season, he made his debut at the Teatro alla Scala in Macbeth under M° Riccardo Muti and performed as Gabriele Adorno in Simon Boccanegra at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna and the title role of Don Carlos at the Teatro Regio di Parma. Since then, he has been performing at leading opera houses, including the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Arena di Verona, Opéra National de Paris, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Berlin Staatsoper and Deutsche Oper Berlin, Opernhaus Zürich, Liceu in Barcelona, Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, Teatro Real de Madrid, Frankfurt, Torino, Bologna and Florence. Sartori’s operatic repertoire includes leading roles as Maurizio in Adriana Lecouvreur, Cavaradossi in Tosca, Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, Rodolfo in Luisa Miller, Pollione in Norma, Riccardo in Un Ballo in Maschera, Manrico in Il Trovatore, Radamès in Aida, Ismaele in Nabucco, Jacopo Foscari in I Due Foscari, Carlo in I Masnadieri. On the concert stage, he interprets Verdi’s Messa da Requiem at the Arena di Verona, Festival Castell de Peralada and at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia. Sartori has worked with renowned conductors such as Riccardo Muti, Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, Daniele Gatti, Zubin Mehta and Gianandrea Noseda. During the 2017/18 season, he made his debut at the Royal Opera House in London as Canio in I Pagliacci. He is also regularly invited at the Teatro alla Scala, where he inaugurated the 18/19 season with Attila conducted by M° Riccardo Chailly. With the Teatro alla Scala he toured internationally in Taipei, Seoul and Moscow. In recent seasons, he made his role debut as Otello under M° Zubin Mehta at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, where he also performed in Nabucco. He performed in Aida at the Bayerische Staatsoper, I Pagliacci at the Arena di Verona and Simon Boccanegra at the Teatro Regio di Parma. Among his future engagements are Attila in Bari, Otello in Florence and Munich and Macbeth at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, as well as in Berlin.
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Alice Lechner comes from a music-loving family. Her first encounter with the opera universe was at the tender age of six. The grandeur of the stage productions and costumes, the backstage chatter, and last, but definitely not least, the music left her in awe, beginning with Mozart’s Don Giovanni. The overall feeling that opera awakens in anyone who gets a glimpse into this part of artistic eternity, that each and every day passes the test of time, was what drew her to stay and be a part of this world. The Opera House of Brașov became her second home, and the people who worked there were her second family.
Since then, Alice has devoted her spare time to maximising her musical knowledge through instrumental studies, studying both piano and violin for a short time. In the following years, her number one passion stepped out of the limelight and graciously gave way to Law Studies.
Since 2018 she has been studying Law at “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University in Iași.
Her passion for opera, even if it is no longer her top professional priority in terms of career, it has most definitely become her priority during her free time. Wanting to experience the best of both worlds and extend her musical horizons, she regularly attends opera performances throughout Romania and abroad.
With OPERA Charm Magazine, Alice aims to nurture her creative side to help it flourish and bloom and to discover, alongside the magazine’s readers, the fascinatingly complex world of opera.
Currently, she is an LL.M. in Business Law at “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University in Iași.
Oana Zamfir is a second year MA student at the “George Enescu” National University of Arts, at the Department of Musicology.
She studied violin for 12 years at the “Stefan Luchian” High School of Art in Botosani, later focusing on the theoretical aspects of music. In 2019 she completed her bachelor studies in Musicology as a student of the National Academy of Music “Gheorghe Dima” in Cluj-Napoca. Her research during 2018-2019 brought to the forefront elements of the archaic ritual within works of composers who activated during the communist period, giving her the opportunity to start a research internship at the “Carl von Ossietzky” University in Germany. In this context, she recorded conversations with members of the Sophie Drinker Institute in Bremen, and had access to documents directly from the Myriam Marbé archive.
Since 2019 she has been a teacher of Music Education and Theoretical Music Studies, making full use of interactive methods in the musical training of students and working, at the same time, with the children’s choir founded in the first year of her activity.
Her interests include pursuing a degree in interior design in 2020.
Alexandru Suciu inherited his passion for art growing up in a family of several generations of musicians. He began his musical studies at the “Augustin Bena” School of Music in Cluj, where he studied piano and guitar. Even though his main study direction was philological, his passion for music prevailed. He began his academical journey at the Faculty of Letters of the “Babeș-Bolyai” University, studying Comparative literature and English. He continued by studying Opera Singing at the “Gheorghe Dima” National Music Academy. He also graduated the Musical Education section, followed by Artistic Directing at the Musical Performing Arts department.
His multidisciplinary education opened the doors towards research, which is seen both through his participation in national and international conferences and symposia, such as the Salzburg Easter School PhD-forum, organized by the Salzburg Universität or the Silesian Meeting of Young Scholars, organized by the Institute of English at the University of Silesia, as well as the collaboration with Opera Charm Magazine.
During his student years, he won several prizes, including the Grand Prize at the “Paul Constantinescu” National Musical Interpretation Competition, the Romanian Composers and Musicologists’ Union Prize at the same competition, the First Prize and the Schubert Prize at the “Ada Ulubeanu” Competition.
He further developed his artistic skills by specializing in courses and masterclasses held by personalities such as Vittorio Terranova, Giuseppe Sabbatini, Marian Pop, Ines Salazar, Riccardo Zanellato, Paolo Bosisio, Valentina Farcaș and Manuel Lange in contexts such as the Internationale Sommerakademie für Operngesang Deutschlandsberg, Corso Internazionale di Canto Lirico I.M.C. Licata or the Europäische Akademie für Musik und darstellende Kunst Montepulciano. Besides his activity on-stage, he currently teaches Opera Singing Didactics, and Pedagogical Practice within the Department for Teacher Education and Training at the “Gheorghe Dima” National Music Academy.
Cristina is a 24 year-old Romanian soprano & a student at the National University of Music Bucharest, where she pursues the MA program in Vocal Performance.
She made her debut in Pamina from “Die Zauberflöte” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at only 19 years old at the Bucharest National Opera House, as a member of the Ludovic Spiess Experimental Opera Studio. Over the years she made her debut in roles such as Contessa d’Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro), Mimì & Musetta (La Bohème), Alice Ford (Falstaff), Erste Dame (Die Zauberflöte) in her university’s opera productions.
Her passion and experience extends in the field of choral music, too.
She has been part of our dream team since the fall of 2021. For a good period of time she took care of OPERA Charm’s social media and took you on the monthly journey through the history of opera through our Legends rubric – and a few times through the Theaters around the World rubric.
Her little soul rubric – from 2021 to present – is definitely the Conductors of the Future, where, every month, she gives you the chance to meet a young star of the world of conducting and, of course, to find out what’s the most charming feature of opera in these artists’ views.
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