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as Apollo in Monteverdi's Orfeo

Fulvio Bettini established a long-term collaboration with many internationally renowned ensembles on period instruments, including Les Concerts de les Nations/La Capella Reial de Catalunya, The English Concert, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Elbipolis Barockorchester Hamburg, L’Arpeggiata, Ensemble Baroque de Limoges, La Petite Bande, Il Giardino Armonico, Accademia Bizantina, La Risonanza, I Barocchisti, Zefiro, I Sonatori della Gioiosa Marca, appearing in the most important festivals, concert seasons and theatres, as at the Salzburger Pfingstenfestspiele, Styriarte Festival, Osterklang and Karajan Centrum Vienna, Internationale Barocktage Stift Melk, Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik, Schwetzingen Festival, Handel Festival Halle, Musikfestspiele Potsdam Sanssouci, Festival Bayreuther Barock, Arolsen Barock-Festspiele, Lucerne Festival, Bach Festival Schaffhausen, Folle Journée Nantes, Festival de Beaune, Società del Quartetto Milan, Accademia Chigiana Siena, Settembre Musica/MITO Turin/Milan, Festival Monteverdi Cremona, Ravenna Festival, Wigmore Hall, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Staatsoper unter den Linden Berlin, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Opéra National de Bordeaux, La Monnaie Bruxelles, Teatro Real and Teatro de la Zarzuela Madrid, Teatro Liceu Barcelona, Piccolo Teatro Milan, Teatro Donizzetti Bergamo.
He regularly works with the conductors Christina Pluhar, Jordi Savall, René Jacobs, Sigiswald Kuijken, Giovanni Antonini, Ottavio Dantone, Diego Fasolis.

His wide repertoire ranges from the Renaissance to contemporary music, with special emphasis on Baroque composers. He sung operatic roles by Monteverdi, Carissimi, Cavalli, Conti, Draghi, Galuppi, Glass, Gluck, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Porpora, Sarro, Sellitto, Telemann, Vivaldi, taking part into the world-premiere in modern times of Conti’s oratorio Il martirio di San Sebastiano at the Salzburg Pfingsten Festival.

Fulvio performed also Bach Cantatas and had notable successes with Mendelssohn’s Walpurgisnacht, Handel’s Apollo e Dafne and Agrippina (Pallante), Berlioz’s Lelio, Mozart’s Don Giovanni (Leporello), Haydn’s Il mondo della luna (Buonafede) in Tokyo, Vivaldi’s La fida ninfa (Oralto) and Cavalli’s La Rosinda in Potsdam, the Italian première of Satyagraha by Philip Glass, Conti’s Don Chisciotte in Sierra Morena (Sancio Pansa) and L’incoronazione di Poppea both under the conduction of René Jacobs.
In Monteverdi’s Orfeo, Fulvio performed the roles of both Orfeo and Apollo, in particular in a production under Jordi Savall and the stage direction by Gilbert Deflo, followed by a DVD. A further appearance under Jordi Savall was in Vivaldi’s Farnace (Aquilio) in Madrid and Bordeaux. He toured Europe in Sarro’s opera buffa La furba e lo sciocco and Sellitto’s La vedova ingegnosa with La Petite Bande conducted by Sigiswald Kuijken.
His most recent performances include Bach’s Matthäuspassion in Lisbon and Willibald Gluck’s La Rencontre imprévue ou Les Pélerins de la Mecque in Tokyo.

Among his several recordings are Draghi’s oratorio La vita nella morte under Christophe Coin (Astrée/Auvidis), Vivaldi’s Farnace (Alia Vox), Galuppi’s Il mondo alla roversa (Chandos) and Handel’s Faramondo both under the conduction of Diego Fasolis (Virgin Classics), a special partecipation in the recent release Via Crucis (Jarousssky/Real/Pluhar) of L’Arpeggiata.

Appereances in 2011-12 includes an European tour with Buxtehude’s Membra Jesu Nostri (La Petite Bande) and Bontempi’s Il Paride at the Musikfestspiele Potsdam-Sanssouci (June 2011) and the Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik (August 2012) under the conduction of Christina Pluhar, Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda (Testo) at the Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele, Il Vespro della Beata Vergine in Utrecht, the debut as Don Alfonso in Japan, Apollo e Dafne with Zefiro in Belgium.

Fulvio began his musical education at very young age, singing in boy choirs, later attending singing classes at the Pontificio Istituto di Musica Sacra of Milan, and at the Conservatorio of Milan under the guidance of Margareth Hayward, followed by master classes in The Netherlands and Germany.

Season 2011-2012