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 choruses of the opera houses of Montpellier and Strasbourg in a broad range of productions. In 2019 he 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 in Novara and Pisa.
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 Gianluca Capuano. He was Il Canto di Orfeo’s chorus master for Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice, Haydn’s L’anima del filosofo and Monteverdi L’Orfeo at the 2023 Salzburg Whitsun Festival, where he also sang the role of Pastore III in Monteverdi’s opera. He returned to Salzburg in 2024 for La clemenza di Tito and Mozart’s Mass in C minor. His most recent projects as chorus master include Monteverdi’s Vespro della Beata Vergine and the world premiere of Bruno Mantovani’s Venezianischer Morgen in Monte-Carlo and a production of Don Pasquale at the Opéra de Lausanne.
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.
