Raffaele Giordani

The tenor Raffaele Giordani has a master’s degree in Chemistry from the University of Ferrara and completed an additional master’s degree in Renaissance and Baroque singing at the Conservatorio Frescobaldi in Ferrara.

He has worked with many famous early music ensembles, including Concerto Italiano, Coro e Orchestra Ghislieri, Vox Luminis, La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Mala Punica, Odhecaton and De labyrintho. He has also been a member of La Venexiana and is a founding member of La Compagnia del Madrigale.

As a soloist he has appeared in many works by Johann Sebastian Bach including the St John Passion and St Matthew Passion, the Magnificat and the Mass in B minor, in operas and cantatas by Handel, in Monteverdi’s Vespro della Beata Vergine and Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, in Mozart’s Requiem and in Rossini’s Petite Messe solennelle. He has worked with conductors including Rinaldo Alessandrini, Lionel Meunier, Jordi Savall, Giulio Prandi, Fabio Bonizzoni, Antonio Greco, Michael Radulescu, Diego Fasolis, Robert King and Jos van Veldhoven.

He has sung roles including the principal tenor parts in Monteverdi’s three surviving operas, Eurillo in Scarlatti’s Gli equivoci nel sembiante, Mordecai and Second Israelite in Handel’s Esther and A Shepherd in Caccini’s Euridice at leading opera houses throughout Europe.

Other engagements have included Tempo and Corpo in Emilio de’ Cavalieri’s Rappresentatione di Anima et di Corpo at the Teatro Real in Madrid, Sailor (Dido and Aeneas) at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona, Oebalus in Mozart’s Apollo et Hyacinthus and Agenore (Il re pastore) at the Teatru Manoel in Valletta and Grimoaldo (Rodelinda) with the Bach Collegium Japan under Masato Suzuki in Tokyo.

Raffaele Giordani has participated in numerous recordings for record labels and broadcasters including Naїve, Glossa, Ricercar, Arcana, Amadeus, Stradivarius, La Bottega Discantica, Tactus, Rai Radio 3, WDR, ORF and RSI, and for Deutsche Grammophon under Claudio Abbado. These recordings have received various major awards, including the Diapason d’Or, the Gramophone Classical Music Award, the German Record Critics’ Award, the Choc de l’année of the magazine Classica and the MIDEM Classical Award.