Franco Farina

Education
Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Connecticut; American Opera Center at the Julliard School of Music, New York

Debut
Rodolfo/La Boheme in Providence, Rhode Island and at the Metropolitan Operain 1990

Career
Specialized in Verdi roles

Highlights
Radames/Aida (Grand Théâtre de Genève,Metropolitan Opera, Rome, Hamburg Staatsoper), Manrico/Il Trovatore (Grand Théâtre de Genève, Zürich); Ernani (Bordeaux); Macduff/Macbeth (Rome); Foresto/Attila (Houston); Corrado/Il Corsaro (Athens); Carlo/I Masnadieri (Baden Baden); Riccardo/Un Ballo in Maschera (Hamburg Staatsoper, la Monnaie, Wiener Staatsoper, Berliner Staatsoper, Liceo Barcelona, München); Adorno/Simon Boccanegra (Paris); Arrigo/I Vespri Siciliani (Washington); Don Alvaro/La Forza del Destino (München); Don Carlos (Tokyo, Barcelona, Wiener Staatsoper); Calaf/Turandot (Hamburg Staatsoper, Washington Opera); Otello (Australian Opera, Hamburg Staatsoper, Salzburg Festival, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Enescu Festival in Bucharest); Calaf/Turandot (Beijing Opera); Verdi Requiem (Berlin Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic); Tristan/Tristan und Isolde (Weimar);

Worked with
Daniel Harding, Simone Young, Antonio Pappano, Riccardo Muti, James Conlon, Lorin Maazel

Recent and future productions
Tannhäuser conducted by Simone Young (Hamburg State Opera); Tristan/Tristan und Isolde (Vlaamse Opera)