In the recent seasons, Italian tenor Paolo Fanale makes his debut at the Royal Opera House in London as Rinuccio Gianni Schicchi, at the Wiener Staatsoper as Fenton in Falstaff and at Teatro dell’Opera di Roma as Roberto Leicester in Maria Stuarda.

He sings Die Zauberflöte at Festival Soirées Lyriques de Sanxay, a concert version of Lucia di Lammermoor at Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Così fan tutte at the Bayerische Staatsoper, a concert version of La Favorite at Opéra de Marseille, Don Giovanni at the Berlin Staatsoper, Dresden Semperoper, Comunale di Bologna and in concert with NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover. Most recenly, he appeared in La clemenza di Tito at Opéra de Losanne and at Gran Teatre del Liceu, L’Elisir d’Amore and Les Troyens at the Wiener Staatsoper, Così fan tutte at the Royal Opera House and at Las Palmas Opera, Iphigénie en Tauride at Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Eugene Onegin at Matsumoto Festival, Die Zauberflöte at Dallas Opera, Paër ‘s Leonora at Innsbruck Festival, Maria Stuarda at Opernhaus Zürich, as well as in Rossini’s Stabat Mater with Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and in Mozart’s Coronation Mass with Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo.

Fanale was born in Palermo and studied at the Conservatorio Vincenzo Bellini. He made his professional debut as Don Ottavio Don Giovanni in Padua. He has since sung for such companies as La Scala, Milan, the Metropolitan Opera, New York, Opéra National de Paris, Théâtre du Châtelet, Bavarian State Opera, Salzburg Festival, Dutch National Opera, Berlin State Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Liceu, Barcelona, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Philarmonie de Paris, Theater an der Wien, New National Theatre, Tokyo, Norwegian National Opera and Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. He also appeared in Helsinki, Genua, Valencia, Strasbourg, Naples, Florence, Amsterdam, Verona, Turin, Montecarlo, Marseilles, Bologna, Palermo, and for the Lucerne Festival. He has worked with conductors including Claudio Abbado, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Daniele Gatti, James Levine, Kurt Masur, Zubin Mehta, Daniel Oren, Antonio Pappano and Jordi Savall.

Fanale’s repertory includes Fenton, Hylas (Les Troyens), Don Ottavio, Roméo Roméo et Juliette, Nemorino L’elisir d’amore, Tamino Die Zauberflöte, Pelléas Pelléas et Mélisande, Ferrando Così fan tutte, Belmonte Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Tebaldo I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Rinuccio, Edgardo Lucia di Lammermoor, Gennaro Lucrezia Borgia), Orphée Orphée et Euridice, Faust, Grimoaldo Rodelinda, Nicias Thaïs, Rodolfo La Bohéme, Tito La clemenza di Tito, Il Duca di Mantova Rigoletto, Nadir Les Pêcheurs de perles. His recordings include Mass in C minor Waisenhausmesse K 139 by Mozart and Schubert’s Mass in E flat major D950 under the baton of Claudio Abbado at the Salzburg Festival 2012; Falstaff at the Metropolitan Opera conducted by James Levine. Upcoming plans include Così fan tutte at the Berlin Staatsoper, Norma at Gran Teatre del Liceu, La Clemenza di Tito and Rossini’s Stabat Mater at ABAO Olbe Bilbao.