Giovanni Sala

The Italian tenor Giovanni Sala has established himself as one of the leading tenors of his generation and performs regularly at major opera houses worldwide. In the 2025/26 season he made his debut at the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, in the role of Alfredo (La traviata), returned to La Scala, Milan, as Ferrando in a new production of Così fan tutte and appeared at the Teatro Regio in Turin as Macduff (Macbeth). This summer he returns to the Verbier Festival and to the Salzburg Festival.

Recent highlights have included performances as Alfredo at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, as Tamino (Die Zauberflöte) and Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni) at the Bavarian State Opera, as the title role of Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito at the Edinburgh Festival and the Opéra de Monte-Carlo and in Florian Leopold Gassmann’s L’opera seria under Christophe Rousset in Milan.

Further engagements have included Don Ottavio at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Nicias in a new production of Massenet’s Thaïs at La Scala, Milan, under Lorenzo Viotti, Prunier (La rondine) under Riccardo Chailly, also at La Scala, Rodolfo (La bohème) at the Bavarian State Opera, Alfredo at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Cassio in a concert performance of Otello under Michele Mariotti at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, his debut at the Ravenna Festival as Fenton (Falstaff) under Riccardo Muti and his Salzburg Festival debut as Tebaldo in I Capuleti e i Montecchi (2023).

His concert engagements have included Beethoven’s Missa solemnis with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Riccardo Muti and under John Eliot Gardiner at the BBC Proms, Haydn’s Missa in tempore belli under Pablo Heras-Casado at La Scala, Milan, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Human Rights Orchestra at the KKL in Lucerne, a concert with Sonya Yoncheva at the Baden-Baden Festspielhaus and Mozart’s Requiem at the L’Offrande Musicale Festival in Toulouse.

Giovanni Sala was born in Lecco, studied at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Como with Fiorenza Cedolins and went on to become a member of the Accademia Teatro alla Scala in Milan, where he worked with Luciana D’Intino and Marcelo Álvarez. His numerous competition successes include second prize in the 2017 Queen Sonja Singing Competition in Oslo.