Saverio
Fiore
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BIOGRAPHY
Born in Bari, Saverio Fiore graduated in singing with magna cum laude from the Istituto Musicale “Giovanni Paisiello” in Taranto and gave his stage debut in 1998 with Donizetti’s Il fortunato inganno at the Festival della Valle D’Itria. In the following years, many debuts in principal roles like L’elisir d’amore, La Boehme, Don Pasquale, Madama Butterfly, La Traviata, Lucia di Lammermoor, Don Carlo, Rigoletto and Werther followed on staged all over Italy.
In 2009 he debuted at the Salzburger Festspiele as Aufide in Rossini’s Moïse et Pharaon (Riccardo Muti conducting) marked his international breakthrough, a role he performed again in the revival of the opera in the 2010/ 2011 season at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome. He has distinguished himself as Arturo in Lucia di Lammermoor at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and in Parsifal in Valencia (under the baton of Lorin Maazel). He sang in the production of Strauss ‘s Elektra at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (Seiji Ozawa conducting); Manon Lescaut (Edmondo) at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, in Verona (Teatro Filarmonico) and at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma; Salome in Florence (Robert Carsen directing) as well as Aida in Verona and Florence (Zubin Mehta conducting). With Guillaume Tell he debuted in New York and Chicago, with Turandot and Macbeth in Oman and appeared with Aida at the Rostropovich Festival in Moscow.
Besides all opera productions, Saverio also performed on concert stages, for example with Petite Messe Solennelle and Mozart’s Requiem in Bari; Brückner’s Te Deum at the Conservatory of Milan; Mozart’s Coronation Mass at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome or Puccini’s Messa di Gloria in Pesaro.
In the last seasons, Saverio sang amongst others Madama Butterfly at Dutch National Opera Amsterdam and Opera Royal de Wallonie in Liège, I vespri siciliani and Tosca at Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Falstaff at Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari and Lucia di Lammermoor and Le nozze di Figaro at Teatro San Carlo in Naples. Current and future projects include Tosca at Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Carmen at Teatro Regio in Parma as well as in Reggio Emilia, I puritani at Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Aida and Salome at Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari, I Due Foscari at Teatro Carlo Felice in Genova and Carmen at Macerata Opera Festival.