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MICHAEL FABIANO,
tenor
A graduate of the University of Michigan, ten-
or Michael Fabiano was a grand-prize winner
of the Metropolitan Opera National Council
Auditions in
, the class that became the
subject of the documentary
e Audition
. He
subsequently won the grand prize of the Gerda
Lissner Foundation in
, and in
he be-
came the rst singer to receive both the Richard
Tucker Award and the Beverly Sills Artist award
in the same year. Fabiano began the
/ con-
cert season appearing as Rodolfo in the Royal
Opera at Covent Garden’s new production of
Puccini’s
La bohème
, a role he reprised at the
Met. He made his role debut as Des Grieux in
Massenet’s
Manon
at San Francisco Opera in the
fall, and he recently completed his Los Angeles
Opera debut appearances as the Duke in Verdi’s
Rigoletto
, which he also performed at the Royal
Opera. Additionally, Fabiano sang at the Met as
Edgardo in Donizetti’s
Lucia di Lammermoor
,
the role that occupied his return to Opera Aus-
tralia over the past month.
ree years ago, he
was awarded Australia’s Helpmann Award for
Best Male Performance in an Opera for his por-
trayal of Gounod’s titular Faust, the role that was
the vehicle for his Houston Grand Opera debut
in
. Fabiano’s recent highlights also include
his debut with the Royal Danish Opera as a so-
loist in Verdi’s Requiem, a program of Italian
masterworks with the San Francisco Sympho-
ny, appearing as Jean in Massenet’s
Hérodiade
with Washington Concert Opera, making his
role debut as Don José in Bizet’s
Carmen
at the
Aix-en-Provence Festival, and returning to the
Met as a featured performer in the company’s
th anniversary gala at Lincoln Center. He has
also taken bows with such opera companies and
houses as La Scala, Madrid’s Teatro Real, Par-
is National Opera, Dresden Semperoper, and
Deutsche Oper Berlin, as well as the Cleveland
Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philadel-
phia Orchestra, Oslo Philharmonic, and Vienna
Symphony Orchestra. Michael Fabiano is mak-
ing his Ravinia debut.
7:30 PM SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 2018
PAVILION
CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
JAMES CONLON,
conductor
NADINE SIERRA,
soprano
MATTHEW POLENZANI,
tenor
ROSSINI
Overture to
e Barber of Seville
DONIZETTI
“Lucia, perdona” from
Lucia di Lammermoor
Nadine Sierra, Matthew Polenzani
ROSSINI
Overture to
Semiramide
–
–
ROSSINI
Passo a sei (Act I ballet) from
William Tell
*
DONIZETTI
“Il dolce suono” (Mad Scene) from
Lucia di Lammermoor
Nadine Sierra
DONIZETTI
“Tombe degli avi miei” (Final Scene) from
Lucia di Lammermoor
Matthew Polenzani
ROSSINI
Overture to
William Tell
*
First performance at Ravinia
Supertitles by Franceso Milioto
Tonight’s concert is performed
in memory of Howard A. Stotler
.
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