Michael Fabiano

Born in Montclair, NJ, this tenor of Italian descent attended the University of Michigan and the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia. He was the recipient of the 2014 Beverly Sills Artist Award and the 2014 Richard Tucker Award, Mr. Fabiano is the first singer to win both awards in the same year.

Of his important performances, he has sung Don José in Carmen at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence with direction by Dimitri Tcherniakov, the title role of Poliuto at the Glyndebourne Festival and his debut as Calaf in Turandot with direction by Ai Weiwei in Rome. He has also performed extensively at the Metropolitan Opera, the San Francisco Opera, the Teatro Real of Madrid, the Berlin Staatsoper, the Teatro Liceu, the Vienna Staatsoper, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Royal Opera House in London, the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, and the Paris Opera.

Recently he was Calaf in Turandot and Des Grieux in Massenet Manon at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, ​​Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly at the San Francisco Opera, Don José in Carmen at the Metropolitan Opera and the Vienna Staatsoper, and Rodolfo in Luisa Miller at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples.

Fabiano is one of the founders of ArtSmart, a non-profit organization that provides tuition-free music lessons with professional artist mentors to young people in under-resourced communities across the US. School by school, student by student, lesson by lesson, his foundation is changing the musical landscape for kids.

e is also Chief Strategy Officer for Resonance, a social commerce platform that provides creative professionals and organizations with the mechanism streamline operations, modernize financial systems, and grow their business.

In his spare time, Fabiano’s main hobby is flying small planes. He’s an instrumented rated pilot. He flies any chance he gets.