That journey is the perfect story for an opera, General Director Charles MacKay said. On his second tour, he introduced the iMac, the iPod and the iPhone. His other awards include Grand Prize at the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.He was fired from Apple in 1985 in a board coup but came back 11 years later. In 2014 Fabiano became the first person to receive the Beverly Sills Artist Award and the Richard Tucker Award in the same year. His repertory includes Edgardo ( Lucia di Lammermoor), Gennaro ( Lucrezia Borgia), the title role in Poliuto, Jacopo Foscari ( I due Foscari), Corrado ( Il corsaro), Rodolfo ( Luisa Miller), Duke of Mantua, the title role in Don Carlo, Don José ( Carmen), Faust ( Faust and Mefistofele), Rodolfo ( La bohème) and Christian ( Cyrano de Bergerac).įabiano’s concert appearances include the world premiere of the Prologue to Shostakovich’s unfinished opera Orango (Los Angeles Philharmonic and recorded for Deutsche Grammophon), Missa solemnis (San Francisco Symphony Orchestra), The Dream of Gerontius (Vienna Symphony Orchestra), Italian opera arias (Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Ravinia Festival), Verdi’s Requiem (Oslo Philharmonic, Cologne, San Francisco Opera) and recitals at Wigmore Hall, Frankfurt Opera and throughout the USA. He made his professional stage debut in 2007 at Klagenfurt State Theatre as Alfredo ( La traviata) and has since sung for companies including the Metropolitan Opera, New York, San Francisco Opera, Seattle Opera, Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía, Valencia, Santa Fe Opera, Canadian Opera Company, Opera Australia, Semperoper Dresden, Paris Opéra, Dutch National Opera, Teatro Comunale, Florence, Teatro Real, Madrid, Deutsche Oper Berlin, English National Opera and for Glyndebourne Festival and Aix-en-Provence Festival. In the 2019/20 Season he sings the title role of Don Carlo.įabiano was born in New Jersey and studied at the University of Michigan School for Music, Theatre and Dance, on the apprentice scheme of Santa Fe Opera and at the Academy of Vocal Arts, Philadelphia. Oksana Volkova as Olga and Michael Fabiano as Lensky in Kasper Holten's Eugene Onegin © Photograph by Bill Cooper, ROH 2015Īmerican tenor Michael Fabiano made his Royal Opera debut in 2015 as Lensky ( Eugene Onegin), returning as Rodolfo ( La bohème), Duke of Mantua ( Rigoletto) and Faust ( Faust).

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