Summary of Franco Fagioli's interview by @fagiolista

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Die Popularität der männlichen Falsettstimme ist ungebrochen: Der neue Star heisst Franco Fagioli. http://t.co/Py2Vfma6q4

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@_alcina it's by the same author of the Opernwelt article and the information it contains is based on that interview

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.@_alcina it's 3 pages (no.4 is a photo) and very interesting, shall i try and summarize a few things here? Can't translate it all

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This is the Opernwelt article I was quoting from http://t.co/9oAn1by8EX

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And part 2 http://t.co/8E2fwZit3W

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.@_alcina he says he nearly died of shock when he heard that PJ had said that he, Franco, was the real sensation in Artaserse, the reporter

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.@_alcina replies luckily you did not die,FF: that would've been really stupid, as we had created a little miracle w/ all roles sung by men

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.@_alcina they talk about Bartoli and FF says being asked by her to do Steffani's Stabat mater was an 'accolade' (don't know a better word)

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.@_alcina then they talk about how he started. At the age of 11 Franco joined a boy's choir, but had to audition for it and prove himself

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.@_alcina later he was looking out for other things to do in music and fully concentrated on the piano. Then he had the idea he might want

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.@_alcina to become a conductor and hence founded a choir when he was 16. At the age of 18 he started taking professional singing lessons

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.@_alcina while studying in Buenos Aires there was hardly any baroque repertoire, and often he says there weren't even the scores available

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.@_alcina his first role as a CT was Mozart's Cherubino(!), then Händel's Rinaldo+Gluck's Orfeo,also Hänsel in Humperdinck's Hansel&Gretel

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.@_alcina he'd sing Hänsel again he says, as he really liked it and it's very singer-friendly

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.@_alcina he would also like to sing Cherubino again even if it was a bit 'bold'. "But Mozart loved making jokes, didn't he?" >>

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.@_alcina >> "a CT as Cherubino - he would have surely liked that" ;-) ;-) [me too, me too!! Only w/ the 'right' CT of course *lol]*]

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.@_alcina ohoh, I can already almost hear the outcry of the female mezzo fans: noooo, Cherubino has to be a woman etc.No it doesn't IMO ;-)

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.@_alcina then they talk about Belcanto (won't repeat that all, we know most of that), but he says CTs are always just associated w/ baroque

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.@_alcina and that's where they get stuck,but it's not where his roots as a singer are.He'd love to sing Malcolm in Rossini's Donna del lago

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.@_alcina or Arcade in Semiramide. Or Tancredi or Sigismondo. And why not Ramiro in La finta guardiniera? "It's only the beginning"

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.@_alcina he says common prejudice should be overcome and CTs also considered for 'typical' mezzo (trouser) roles if they can sing them

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.@_alcina when asked why so few CTs try Sesto he says: because it's too high. But if s.o. can sing a mezzo role, why shouldn't they.

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.@_alcina he says he sings with his chest voice as much as possible and he says the female mezzos are not 'closer' to the old time castrati

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.@_alcina he's on the other hand not considering sth. like Strauss' Rosenkavalier, he prefers Italian repertoire ;-)

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.@_alcina then he mentions that his career started in Germany, winning the Neue Stimmen competition in Gütersloh (my hometown! *lol*)