Franco Fagioli; «Ombra mai fu»; SERSE; George Frideric Handel

This channel is the re-establishment of previous channels that have been sadly terminated. ========================= Franco Fagioli--counter-tenor Zefira Valova--concertmaster Il Pomo d'Oro 2017 ==================== «Franco Maximiliano Fagioli (born 1981, in Tucumán) is an Argentinian operatic countertenor.[1] Life Born in Argentina, Fagioli initially studied piano and then singing at the Superior Art Institute of the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires. He began his international career in 2003, when he won the Bertelsmann singing competition Neue Stimmen in Gütersloh, Germany. Franco Fagioli has since made regular appearances at opera houses in Buenos Aires, Karlsruhe, Bonn, Zurich, Essen and Genoa, at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna and the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris. He has also been invited to perform at a number of festivals, including those in Halle, Ludwigsburg, Innsbruck and Froville. He has worked with conductors such as Rinaldo Alessandrini, Alan Curtis, Gabriel Garrido, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, René Jacobs, José Manuel Quintana, Marc Minkowski, Riccardo Muti and Christophe Rousset. External video video icon «Parto qual pastorello», Arbace's aria from Artaserse by Johann Adolph Hasse on YouTube video icon «Spesso di nubi cinto», Adalgiso's aria from Carlo il Calvo by Nicola Porpora on YouTube Franco Fagioli is one of the five countertenors to appear in the opera, TV, CD and DVD production of Leonardo Vinci’s Artaserse, which has been awarded numerous...