Floriano D'Auria
Graduated "cum laude" in Architecture, studies piano from childhood, at present is a student of Flora Gagliardi; assists
the choir masters Anna Crabb, Gianni Mini, Valentina Peleggi; studies Composition at the Florence State School of Music
"Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini" with Damiano D'Ambrosio, Barbara Rettagliati and Riccardo Riccardi.
Graduated brilliantly in Singing as a countertenor (mezzosoprano) with Steve Woodbury, attends masterclasses with Gloria Banditelli,
Kate Lafferty, Paul Esswood, Gianni Fabbrini; now studies with Donatella Debolini.
Makes his theatre début playing in Torino Strauss Jr.'s operetta "Die Fledermaus" ("The Bat": Antonmario Semolini, conductor; Augusto
Grilli, stage director) and as Baroque soloist sings in "Giulio Cesare" by Haendel (Ferrara, Modena and Ravenna) Ottavio Dantone,
conductor; Alessio Pizzech, stage director.
Conducted by the maestros Silvio Segantini, Gianni Mini, Nicola Paszkowski, Bettina Hoffmann, Federico Bardazzi, Michael Stüve, Gabriele Micheli,
Joan Yakkey, Valentina Peleggi, Federico Maria Sardelli, Marco Berrini, Alessandro De Marchi, Riccardo Chailly, Gianandrea Noseda, works with
several musical groups (madrigal ensembles, chamber choirs, operatic-symphonic great choirs) with a repertoire from medieval to contemporary
music. Sings as a soloist in works by Bach, Britten, Caldara, Carissimi, Lulli, Monteverdi, Mozart, Purcell, Pergolesi, Vivaldi.
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