Michael Fabiano

Michael Fabiano is one of the world’s most celebrated opera singers, an accomplished entrepreneur, and an advocate for arts education. Over the course of his career, he has sung in 76 cities, in 26 countries, and on 89 of the most renowned stages, including The Metropolitan Opera, Paris Opera, Teatro alla Scala, Teatro Real de Madrid, The Royal Opera Covent Garden, and Sydney Opera. He is the recipient of the industry’s most prestigious awards, including the Richard Tucker Award and the Beverly Sills Artist Award, and is a Grand Prize winner from the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. In addition to his prolific performance career, Michael is Co-Founder and Executive Director of ArtSmart, a 501(c)3 nonprofit dedicated to transforming the lives of youth in under-resourced communities across the US through tuition-free music lessons and mentorship, by paid professional artists. He is also Chief Strategy Officer for Resonance, a social commerce platform that provides creative professionals and organizations with the mechanism to expand their network, and offer and find services. Michael is a native of Montclair, New Jersey and holds degrees from the University of Michigan and the Academy of Vocal Arts.

Tenor Fabiano boasts the clean musicianship of his American training, and an innate sense of Italian line unaffected by mannerism. He made Puccini into heroic bel canto that fully satisfies verismo. Mr. Fabiano is a natural actor, his moves at once incorporating the physicality of singing with the emotive enthusiasms of a young poet.

Michael Milenski, Opera Today

The star of the show was certainly the prodigiously talented tenor Michael Fabiano. Blessed with good looks, physical presence, and a pingy, well-projected tenor under great expressive control, Fabiano noticeably raised the temperature whenever he was on stage, and he delivered a splendid and intimate rendition of Rodolfo’s “Quando le sere al placido” (“When in the evening calm”). His scene with the rich-toned mezzo Ekaterina Semenchuk, making a promising debut in the tiny role of Federica, packed some much-needed sizzle, despite its brevity.

Lisa Hirsch, San Francisco Classical Voice

Tenor Michael Fabiano offered a splendid account as Luisa’s lover Rodolfo. Fabiano gave a passionate, dramatically agile performance while alternately wooing and scorning his beloved Tyrolean maiden. Fabiano was superb with his luscious tone, sublime phrasing and outstanding passage work, most notably in his Act 2 aria, ‘Quando le sere al placido.’

James Ambroff-Tahan, San Francisco Examiner

If there is a star of this show, it is the tragic Lensky of the RO debutant Michael Fabiano, now singing meaty Verdi and Puccini roles around the world, but here demonstrating exquisite control in the pianissimo reprise of his big solo before the duel scene. I can’t think of a Lensky at Covent Garden who has held the audience so spellbound in 40 years of Onegin-going — possibly the great Nicolai Gedda in the late 1970s — but Fabiano has youth on his side. A glorious debut.

The Sunday Times

Faust is sung by the American tenor Michael Fabiano in a voice of astonishing lucidity

Time Out Sydney

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Michael Fabiano's début as Rodolfo at the Metropolitan Opera, December 10, 2014.

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