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Gianandrea Navacchia

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Baritone, he studied singing under the guidance first of Kelly McClendon and then of William Matteuzzi, his teacher of reference who still follows him and with whom he perfected his skills at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena for three consecutive years. He graduated with honors in Renaissance and Baroque singing at the "GB Martini" Conservatory in Bologna with Anna Simboli and in opera singing at the "A. Boito" Conservatory in Parma with Romano Franceschetto. He also attended the masterclasses held by Claudio Desderi at the Fiesole music school.

In 2013 he made his debut as a soloist at the Teatro Rossini in Lugo with the Orchestra Città di Ferrara under the direction of Carlo Argelli. He participated as a baritone in the "Lirica Oggi" program conducted by soprano Wilma Vernocchi for Teleromagna studies.

Winner of the Competition Primo Palcoscenico of Cesena in 2016, he made his debut in 2016 at the Teatro Bonci in Cesena in the role of Count Almaviva in  Le nozze di Figaro  by WA Mozart with Claudio Desderi as conductor and the direction of Matelda Cappelletti. Winner of the Competition Città di Ferrara, in the same year, he made his debut in April 2017 in the role of Papageno in  Die Zauberflöte  by WA Mozart at the Teatro Comunale C. Abbado in Ferrara under the direction of Giulio Arnofi and directed by Maria Cristina Osti, a show also performed the next year. Since then he has debuted many operatic roles: in the Baroque repertoire, he debuted Orfeo e Caronte in  L'Orfeo by C. Monteverdi at the MITO Festival, Achilla in  Giulio Cesare  by GF Händel, Aeneas in  Dido and Aeneas  by H. Purcell, Nibbio in  L'Impresario delle Canarie  by D. Sarro, Uberto in  La Serva Padrona  by GB Pergolesi, and  Il Maestro di Cappella of D. Cimarosa. In the opera repertoire, he made his debut in the roles of: Conte d'Almaviva, Don Bartolo and Antonio in  The Marriage of Figaro  by WA Mozart, Figaro, Don Bartolo and Don Basilio in  The Barber of Seville  by G. Rossini, Don Magnifico in  La Cenerentola  by G. Rossini, Gaudenzio in  Il Signor Bruschino  by G. Rossini, Guglielmo and Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte  for Cosmopolis Festival in Kavala, Leporello in  Don Giovanni  by WA Mozart, as well as many other supporting roles.

In the sacred repertoire he has sung numerous masses and oratorios, from Monteverdi to Britten, among which the Cantata  Membra Jesu Nostri  by D. Buxtehude at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna and the  Mass in B minor  by J. S. Bach for the Early Music Festival in Rome under the directed by Paolo Capirci. He also collaborated with the Ghislieri College of Pavia directed by Giulio Prandi in the sacred-polyphonic repertoire. In the field of chamber music, he has sung Lieder by various authors such as Mozart, Beethoven, Rossini, Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Fauré, Wagner, Strauss, Mahler, Ravel, Britten and Tosti. He performed the complete cycles of  Winterreise  by F. Schubert (for Erconcerti),  Dichterliebe  by R. Schumann, Rückert-Lieder by G. Mahler and Rencesvals by L. Dallapiccola for Maggio Musicale Fiorentino.

He also sang  Pulcinella by I. Stravinsky for the Accademia Chigiana in Siena under the baton of Daniele Rustioni, Il Conte Ugolino by G. Donizetti in Parma and the world premiere in Verona of Aldo Finzi's opera Shylock, completed and conducted by Nicola Morello. 

He collaborated with Daniele Gatti for the realization of the works  La Serva Padrona  by GB Pergolesi (directed by William Matteuzzi),  L'occasione fa il ladro  and  Il Signor Bruschino  by G. Rossini (directed by Lorenzo Mariani) at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena , covering respectively the roles of Uberto, Don Parmenione and Gaudenzio. Again for the Accademia Chigiana, in 2022, he performed in concert-tours in Al-Kuwait, Paris and Gorizia.

He sang the role of Amfortas in R. Wagner's Parsifal in Cesena in 2015 and 2021, also taking care of the direction.

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