Resident Artists
Michael Fabiano, tenor
AVA fourth-year resident artist
Hometown: North Reading, MAEducation: B.M. University of Michigan
Competitions: winner, 2007 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, first place winner Loren Zachary Competition, 2007; First Prize, 2007 Opera Index Competition; first place in the 2006 Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation Competition, second place and José Carreras prize for best tenor in the 2006 Julián Gayarre Competition, Pamplona, Spain, Grand Prize in 2005 Florida Grand Opera Competition, Junior Division, second place in the 2006 James Parkinson Voice Competition, Second prize in the 2006 Giulio Gari Competition. He was a 2006 Sarah Tucker Grant Finalist and a 2007 Sarah Tucker Grant recipient.
Roles at AVA: Des Grieux, Manon, Roberto, Le villi; Froh, Das Rheingold; Duke of Mantua, Rigoletto, Lensky, Eugene Onegin, Anatol in Vanessa, Des Grieux in Manon, tenor solo in Rossini's Stabat Mater; Des Grieux, Manon Lescaut (Act ll); Alfredo, La traviata.
Other roles: Rodolfo, La bohème, The Philadelphia Orchestra; Alfredo in La traviata with the Stadttheater of Klagenfurt and Opera New Jersey; Rinuccio, Gianni Schicchi and Houssar, Mavra, National Greek Theatre; Rinuccio, Gianni Schicchi, Teatro a la Scala; Nemorino, L'elisir d'amore, New Jersey Opera Theatre; Carnegie Hall debut as Don Antonio in OONY's Dom Sébastien; Valere in Mechem's Tartuffe; Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni, and Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi, University of Michigan; Beppe, Rita, Urbania.
Upcoming engagements: Cassio, Otello, Paris Opera Bastille; Rodolfo, La bohème, Kansas City Lyric Opera, Dresden Semperoper; Alfredo, La traviata, Teatro San Carlo di Napoli; Pinkerton, Madama Butterfly, Opera Colorado; Il Duca, Rigoletto, Dresden Semperoper; Nemorino, L'elisir d'amore, Fort Worth Opera.
