Born in Brazil, Alfredo Abbati obtained his master's degree at the National Conservatory of Music and Dance in Paris in the class of Erika Guiomar with “unanimous honors and congratulations from the jury”.
During the season 2009-2010, he was vocal master pianist in the Centro de Perfeccionamento Plácido Domingo in Valencia (Spain), in 2014-2015 at the Atelier Lyrique of the Opéra National de Paris and since 2017 at the Salzburg Festival.
As a vocal coach he participates in many productions such as : Adriana Lecouvreur (direction : Marco Armiliato), The Pearl Fishers, The Damnation of Faust at the Salzburg Summer Festival, Salome, Tosca, Fidelio (direction : Zubin Mehta), The silk stair, The Italian in Algiers (direction : Alberto Zedda), Ariane on Naxos (direction : Andrew Davis) at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia; The Valkyrie, The Twilight of the Gods at the Municipal Theater of São Paulo; Lulu, Parsifal, Carmen au Théâtre Amazonas in Manaus (Brazil); The Barber of Seville, A masked ball, Lucrezia Borgia in A Coruña (Spain); Tristan and Isolde, Lulu, Aida, The Carmelite dialogues (direction : Alain Altinoglu) at the Theater de la Monnaie, Otello, Lear (direction : Fabio Luisi) at Paris National Opera, La Fille du Régiment and Andrea Chénier at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Tosca and Falstaff at the Festival d'Aix en Provence, etc…
During these productions, he also works with Placido Domingo, Bryn Terfel, Jonas Kaufmann, Sondra Radvanovsky, Anna Netrebko, Anita Rachvelishvili, Siegfried Jerusalem, Albert Dohmen, Hanna Schwarz, John Daszak, Camila Nylund, Gregory Reinhart, Stephanie d'Oustrac, Sandrine Piau, Olga Peretyatko, Magdalena Kozena, Karine Deshayes, Sophie Koch, Veronique People, Javier Camarena, Ewa Podles, Michael Spyres, Juan Jesus Rodriguez, Ainhoa Arteta, Mariella Devia, Lorin Maazel, Gianandrea Nozeda, Hervé Niquet, Pinchas Steinberg, Christophe Rousset, Jeremy Rhorer, George Priest…
In recital, he performs alongside Sondra Radvanovsky, Carlos Álvares, Alejandro Roy and Simon Orfila in La Coruña (Spain); by Patricia Petibon at the Vezère Festival; by Paulo Szot in Rome, from Marianne Cornetti to Ferrol (Spain); by Karine Deshayes at the European Young Talents Festival; by Vito Priante at the “Festival Nuits de Chéronne”; by Allison Cook at the Royal Theater of La Monnaie; a recital tour with the “Salzburger Festspiele” in China…
He participates in several world creations such as : Shell Shock by Nicholas Lens with direction by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, In the world of Philippe Boesmans, Macbeth Underworld by Pascal Dusapin at the Théatre Royal de la Monnaie, Il viaggio also by Dusapin at the Aix-en-Provence Summer Festival, The satin shoe by Marc-André Dalbavie at the Opéra National de Paris…
ENGLISH VERSION
Italian-Brazilian vocal coach Alfredo Abbati began studying piano with Daniel de Matos in Sao Paulo. He received his master degree at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris with highest honours under the guidance of Erika Guiomar.
During the 2009-2010 season he was a vocal coach at the Center for Improvement Plácido Domingo in Valencia (Spain) and in 2014-2015 he was a vocal coach at the Atelier Lyrique at Opéra National de Paris.
In his experience as vocal coach, he has worked on many productions, such as Salome, Tosca, Fidelio(conductor: Zubin Mehta), The silk stair, The Italian in Algiers (conductor: Alberto Zedda) and Ariane on Naxos(conductor: Andrew Davis) at Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia, Spain; Adriana Lecouvreur (conductor: Marco Armiliato) and The Pearl Fishers at the Salzburger Festspiele, Autria; Otello and Lear at Opéra National de Paris, France; Die Walküre and Götterdämmerung at Teatro Municipal de São Paulo, Brazil; Lulu, Parsifal and Carmen at Teatro Amazonas in Manaus, Brazil; Falstaff at the Verdi Theater in Trieste, Italy (conductor: Jose Miguel Perez-Sierra); La Fille du Régiment and Andrea Chénier at Grand Teatre de Liceu in Barcelona; Tristan and Isolde, The dialogues from the Carmelites, Macbeth Underworld (world première of Pascal Dusapin), Powder her face (Thomas Hades), Mithridates King of Pontus (conductor: Christophe Rousset) at Theater de la Monnaie in Brussels…
In these productions, he has worked with renowned singers and conductors including Plácido Domingo, Jonas Kaufmann, Anna Netrebko, Nicola Alaimo, Anita Rachvelishvili, Anna-Tomowa Sintow, Robert Alagna, Camila Nylund, Bryn Terfel, Siegfried Jerusalem, Albert Dohmen, Hanna Schwarz, Stephanie d'Oustrac, Ewa Podles, Javier Camarena, Olga Peretyatko, Lorin Maazel, Gianandrea Nozeda, Alain Altinoglu, Fabio Luisi, George Priest…
In 2014, he participated in the world premiere of Shell Shock by the Belgian composer Nicholas Lens, staged by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, and also Au monde by Philippe Boesmans at La Monnaie/De Munt in Brussels with Patricia Petibon and Stéphane Degout.
As recitalist, he has played with Sondra Radvanovsky, Carlos Alvarez, Simon Orfila and Alejandro Roy in A Coruña; Paulo Sot in Rome; Patricia Petibon in La Vézère, France; Marianne Cornetti in Ferrol, Spain; Allison Cook at Theater de la Monnaie in Brussels; Gemma Nibrien in Dublin…
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