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Born in Bergamo, Gabriele Nani studies the piano and then focuses on singing.
After winning several competitions, including the European Community Competition in Spoleto, he begins his career on Italian stages: Turin’s Regio, Catania’s Bellini, Cagliari’s Lirico, The Puccini Festival at Torre del Lago, and Parma’s Regio. He tours to the Auditorio Nacional of Mexico City, Cremona’s Ponchielli, Como’s Sociale, Brescia’s Grande, Piacenza’s Municipale, Ravenna’s Alighieri, Ferrara’s Comunale, Padua’s Verdi, Rovigo’s Sociale, Lucca’s Giglio, and Leghorn’s Goldoni.
Abroad he sings at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels, Opéra Royal Wallonie Liege, Royal Theater Copenaghen, Opéra de Massy, Fribourg, Lausanne, Theater An Der Wien, Opern Festspiele di St. Margarethen, Musikfestspiele in Potsdam, Rossini Festival in Bad Wildbad, Opéra de Metz Metropole, Seoul Art Center Opera Theater.
He performs in concert at Marti Talvela Hall in Mikkeli, Finland, Malta’s Manoel Teatro, the Art Center Auditorium in Manama, Bahrain, the Hall in the Enescu Museum in Bucharest, Rumania, the Luxembourg Auditorium, and at the Camprodon Albeniz Festival in Spain, Shanghai Oriental Art Center Concert Hall.
He is among the winners of RAI 1’s television competition Tour de Chant, where his performances of both Mozart’s and Rossini’s Figaro garner acclaim..
He works with conductors such as Zoltan Pesko, Carlo Boccadoro, Donato Renzetti, Paolo Arrivabeni, Tiziano Severini, Steven Mercurio, Carlo Goldstein, Alfred Eschwe, George Pehlivanian, Kirill Petrenko, Asher Fisch, and Juraj Valcuha. He works with directors such as Hugo De Ana, Giancarlo Del Monaco, Stefano Poda, Ivan Stefanutti, Marco Gandini, Keith Warner, Josè Cura, Micha van Hoecke, Michal Znaniecki, Robert Dornhelm and Luca Ronconi.
His favorite roles are: Rossini’s Figaro/Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Mozart's Don Giovanni, Donizetti’s Enrico/Lucia di Lammermoor, Puccini’s Marcello/La Bohème. He also sings: Figaro/Le Nozze di Figaro, Simone/La finta semplice of Mozart; Belcore/L’Elisir d’Amore, Malatesta/Don Pasquale, Enrico/Il Campanello of Donizetti; Belfiore/Un giorno di Regno, Germont/La Traviata of Verdi; Wurm/Le Villi, Frank/Edgar, Sharpless/Madame Butterfly of Puccini and many others. His contemporary repertoire includes: Dalla Piccola’s Il Prigioniero and Job, the world debut of Ferrero’s Le Piccole Storie and Pagotto’s Arcibaldo Sonivari at Modena’s Teatro Pavarotti.
His recordings include: Lehár’s The Merry Widow conducted by Asher Fisch for DVD Fabbri Editori, the first CD recording of Generali’s Adelina for Naxos, Donizetti’s Don Pasquale at Vicenza’s Teatro Olimpico for DVD Bongiovanni, and Bellini’s La Sonnambula staged by Hugo de Ana for DVD Dynamic, Puccini’s La Bohème staged by Robert Dornhelm DVD Gramola,
the Movie "Il Sogno di Rigoletto" staged by Mauro Maletti.
Recently He sang Enrico/Lucia di Lammermoor in toured in the France Theaters of Clermont Ferrand, Bordeaux, Perpignan, Fribourg, Massy, Guglielmo/Cosi fan tutte at the Varese Ligure Festival, Figaro/Il Barbiere di Siviglia at Ariston Theater of Sanremo and Vittorio Emanuele Theater of Noto (Sicily), Fabrizio/La Locandiera of Antonio Salieri in Consorziale Theater of Budrio, Figaro/Il Barbiere di Siviglia In Spain at the Amaia K.S. of Irun .
In May 2017 is published his first CD: My Mind A Volcano Gabriele Nani Baritone Opera Arias edited by Andromeda.
Among the latest productions: he make the debut in Paisiello's Barbiere di Siviglia at the Paisiello Festival in Taranto, Figaro in Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Théâtre Impérial of Compiègne.
Invited along with international stars including Elisabeth Leonskaja, Vadim Repin, Jens Lindemann at the Sochi International Festival in Russia for a concert conducted by Jury Bashmet and a concerts tour in Colombia about the Mozart/Da Ponte's trilogy at the Cartagena International Music Festival 2018.