Diego Fasolis was born on 19 April 1958 and is a Swiss classical organist and conductor, the leader of the ensemble I Barocchisti.
12 Facts About Diego Fasolis
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Diego Fasolis has conducted operas in historically informed performance at major European opera houses and festivals, and has made award-winning recordings.
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Diego Fasolis further studied organ and organ improvisation with Gaston Litaize in Paris, and historically informed performance with Michael Radulescu.
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Diego Fasolis received several international awards such as the Stresa first prize, the first prize and scholarship of the Migros-Gohner Foundation, the Hegar Prize, and the Traetta Prize 2020, and he was a finalist in the Geneva Competition.
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Diego Fasolis was focused on historically informed performance and founded in 1995 the instrumental ensemble Vanitas in Lugano.
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Diego Fasolis toured with his ensembles in southern and central Europe.
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Diego Fasolis conducted performances of operas in HIP at theatres such as La Scala, Theatre des Champs-Elysees and Opera de Lausanne, where he conducted Faramondo in 2009, Rinaldo in 2011, Josef Myslivecek's Farnace in 2011, Vinci's Artaserse in 2012, Vivaldi's Dorilla in Tempe in 2014, Mozart's Die Zauberflote in 2015, and Handel's Ariodante in 2016.
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Diego Fasolis made his debut as conductor at the Salzburg Pentecost Festival with a revival of Niccolo Jommelli's oratorio Isacco figura del Redentore in 2013.
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Diego Fasolis returned in 2014 for two concerts and two operas, Norma again and Gluck's Iphigenie en Tauride, both with Bartoli in the title role.
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Diego Fasolis expanded the music including dances by Francesco Cavalli, Filiberto Laurenzi, Francesco Sacrati and Benededetto Ferrari, and writing a rich orchestration, performed by musicians from I Barocchisti.
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In 2001, Diego Fasolis recorded with the mezzo-soprano Guillemette Laurens, Saint-Saens's Requiem for Chandos, in 2012, he recorded Leonardo Vinci's opera Artaserse with Concerto Koln.
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Diego Fasolis has collaborated regularly with singers such as Philippe Jaroussky, Max Emanuel Cencic, Cecilia Bartoli, and the recorder player Maurice Steger.