Michael Fabiano
Tenor
New England First Place Winner, 2007

Michael Fabiano is currently a resident artist at The Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia and studies with Bill Schuman. While at AVA, Mr. Fabiano has performed numerous main stage roles including Lenski in Eugene Onegin, Il Duca in Rigoletto, Roberto in Le Villi, and Froh in Das Rheingold. Later this season, he will perform Anatol in Barber’s Vanessa, Des Grieux in Massenet’s Manon and will be the tenor soloist in the Rossini Stabat Mater. As a former student and recipient of a Bachelor’s degree in voice at the University of Michigan, Mr. Fabiano performed main stage roles including Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi, Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni, and Valère in Tartuffe.

Recently, Mr. Fabiano made his Carnegie Hall debut as Don Antonio in Donizetti’s Dom Sébastiene with the Opera Orchestra of New York. He has also appeared as Nemorino in L’elisir D’amore with the New Jersey Opera Theater and was an apprentice artist at The Santa Fe Opera in 2005.

Mr. Fabiano has won prizes in numerous competitions, including 1st Place in the 2006 Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation Competition and both 2nd Place and the José Carreras Prize for the best tenor in the 2006 Julián Gayarre Competition, held in Pamplona, Spain. The tenor has also been the recipient of the Grand Prize in the 2005 Florida Grand Opera Competition Junior Division, 2nd Prize in the 2006 James Parkinson Voice Competition and 2nd Prize in the 2006 Giulio Gari Competition. Mr. Fabiano was a 2006 Sarah Tucker Grant Finalist.

In the summer of 2007, Mr. Fabiano will make his debut as Alfredo in La Traviata with the Stadttheater of Klagenfurt, Austria

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