Jacopo Facchini

Jacopo Facchini studied piano, choral conducting and composition, before taking a degree in opera singing. He later specialized in Baroque singing, working with Sara Mingardo, Gloria Banditelli, Monica Bacelli, Romina Basso, Michael Chance, René Jacobs and Gérard Lesne, and studied contemporary repertory with Alda Caiello.

In 2017 and 2018 he conducted the chorus of the Opéra National de Montpellier in productions of Nino Rota’s La notte di un nevrastenico, and I puritani, Siberia and Die Fledermaus, and the chorus of the Opéra national de Lorraine in productions of Hänsel und Gretel, Káťa Kabanová and Un ballo in maschera.

In 2019 Jacopo Facchini took over the directorship of the vocal ensemble laBarocca, founded by Gianluca Capuano. In the same year he prepared the Coro Sinfonico di Milano for a production of Ernani at the Teatro Coccia in Novara and at the Teatro Verdi in Pisa. He was Capuano’s assistant on productions of Orfeo ed Euridice at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome and Ariodante at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.

In 2022 he was the musical director for a performance conceived by himself and directed by Damien Robert entitled XV de c(h)œur at the Opéra National de Montpellier, and prepared Il Canto di Orfeo for a European concert tour of La clemenza di Tito with Les Musiciens du Prince — Monaco, under the baton of Gianluca Capuano and with Cecilia Bartoli in the role of Sesto. In 2023 he was Il Canto di Orfeo’s chorus master for Orfeo ed Euridice and L’Orfeo, and also sang the role of Pastore III in Monteverdi’s opera.

As a singer Jacopo Facchini works regularly with vocal and instrumental ensembles specializing in early music, among them Il Canto di Orfeo, Theatro dei Cervelli, Concerto Romano, La Venexiana, Cantar Lontano, Ensemble Pian & Forte, laBarocca, the Cappella Musicale Arcivescovile di San Petronio, the Gambe di Legno Consort, Forma Antiqva, L’Armonia degli Affetti and Anonima Frottolisti.

He appeared in Zimmermann’s Die Soldaten under Ingo Metzmacher at La Scala, Milan, was a soloist in the world premiere of Adriano Guarnieri’s L’amor che move il mondo e l’altre stelle and performed in a Kurtág programme with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano under Sylvain Cambreling. He has also worked with the Divertimento Ensemble, the mdi ensemble, Tempo Reale, the pianist Cesare Picco and with Roberto Cacciapaglia and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

Jacopo Facchini performs at major festivals such as Milano Arte Musica, the Milano Musica Festival, MITO SettembreMusica, the Ravenna Festival, the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, the Macerata Opera Festival, the Festival de La Chaise-Dieu, the Festival de Royaumont, the Lausanne Bach Festival and the Utrecht Early Music Festival.