Sagona Gabriele

Representation: ITALIA

He started studying singing with his father Vincenzo and then continued with mezzo Biancamaria Casoni. In 2009 he won and attended a masterclass to make his debut as Colline in Puccini’s La bohème with Orchestra Rossini in Pesaro; in the same year he was the only bass in the finals at the Concorso per giovani cantanti lirici della Comunità Europea “AsLiCo”, for the role of Colline.

He immediately started a brillant career singinng: Mayr‘s Amore ingegnoso (Barone) at the Bergamo Musica Festival; Rossini‘s Il barbiere di Siviglia and Paisiello‘s Il barbiere di Siviglia (Lo Svegliato) in Sassari; Kalman‘s Die Csárdásfürstin (Kiss and Ambassador) and Strauss‘ Eine nacht in Venedig (Senator Delaqua) for the “41st and 42nd International Operetta Festival” in Trieste; Un ballo in maschera (Tom) in Turin; La battaglia di Legnano (Il Podestà), Attila (Leone) and La clemenza di Tito (Publio) in Trieste; La traviata (Dottor Grenvil) in Hong Kong with Teatro San Carlo; Nabucco (Gran Sacerdote di Belo) in Parma, in Udine and Pordenone with Teatro Verdi di Trieste; Rigoletto (Monterone) at the Royal Opera House Muscat in Oman with Teatro Regio di Parma and in Valencia under Roberto Abbado; Gianni Schicchi (Simone) in Trieste and Turin; Maria de Rudenz (Rambaldo) and Torquato Tasso in Bergamo; Il barbiere di Siviglia (Don Basilio) in Trento, Bergamo, Padova, Bassano del Grappa and at Maggio Musicale Fiorentino; L’occasione fa il ladro (Martino) in Trieste; Rossini‘s La gazza ladra (Podestà) at Teatro Filarmonico in Verona; Roberto Devereux in Florence; Guglielmo Tell (Gessler) with Teatro Regio in Turin and on tour in the US; Le nozze di Figaro (Il Conte d’Almaviva) in Turin; Lucia di Lammermoor (Raimondo) in Bergamo, Firenze, Cagliari and Tenerife; Andrea Chenier (Roucher) in Naples, Turin and, conducted by M° Chailly and directed by Martone, at La Scala in Milan for the opening of the season; Anna Bolena in Bergamo; La Bohéme (Colline) in Malta, Genova, Turin, Lugano, Rome and at La Scala; Il turco in Italia (Selim) in Catania; Carmen (Zuniga) at Teatro alla Scala; Tosca (Angelotti) in Trieste and in Turin; Falstaff directed by Ronconi at the San Carlo in Naples and, conducted by Zubin Mehta, at Teatro alla Scala in Milan and on tour in Kazhakistan; La fanciulla del west conducted by Chailly and directed by Carsen at La Scala; Madama Butterfly conducted by Riccardo Chailly for the opening of the season at Teatro alla Scala; La Cenerentola (Alidoro) in Limoges, Padova and Rome; Don Giovanni (Leporello) at Teatro Bellini in Catania; Le nozze di Figaro (Figaro) in Verona; Rossini‘s Messa di Gloria in Limoges; Norma (Oroveso) in Malta; Il Trovatore (Ferrando) under Fabio Luisi at Maggio Musicale Fiorentino; L’italiana in Algeri (Mustafà) in Sassari; I Masnadieri (Moser) under M° Roberto Abbado at Palau de les Arts in Valencia; Aida (Il Re) in Caracalla for the Rome Opera; Luisa Miller (Wurm) at the Verdi Festival in Parma conducted by Roberto Abbado; Macbeth (Banco) in Cagliari.

He has worked with important conductors such as: Abbado, Arrivabeni, Battistoni, Bisanti, Chailly,  Domingo, Ettinger, Gatti, Gelmetti, Luisi, Mehta, Montanari, Noseda, Oren, Palumbo, Renzetti, Rolli, Santi, Steinberg, Zanetti, etc… and directors such as: Abbado, Carsen, Dante, Grinda, Hermanis, Krief, Livermore, Mariani, Martone, Michieletto, Nucci, Poda, Pugelli, Ronconi, Scola, Spirei.

He is also very active on the concert platform, having performed at Teatro Sociale in Bergamo and Como, at Festival MiTo, at the Ljublijana Festival, in Aquileia and Sarajevo with Teatro Verdi di Trieste in Rossini‘s Stabat Mater, as well as Beethoven‘s Ninth Symphony. In 2009, for the “Haydn International Festival” he sang Mozart‘s Spatzenmesse at the Wiener Konzerthaus with the Vienna Art Orchestra; his sacred music repertoire includes: Bach‘s Magnificat and Hohe Messe in H-moll; Mozart‘s Requiem, Vesperae Solennes de Confessore, Spatzenmesse and Kronungsmesse; Schubert‘s Mass in G major; Fauré‘s Requiem; Franck‘s Les sept paroles du Christ sur la croix.

He has recorded: Il Ratto dal Serraglio, Mayr‘s Amore Ingegnoso and Donizetti‘s Maria de Rudenz for Bongiovanni.

Among his recent and future engagements: Falstaff under Daniel Oren at Teatro Massimo in Palermo; Rigoletto conducted by M° Daniele Gatti in Rome directed by Damiano Michieletto and at Teatro San Carlo in Naples; La Traviata at Teatro Bellini in Catania in a movie version for Sky Classica HD; Carmen and Samson et Dalila at Teatro San Carlo in Naples; La Cenerentola (Alidoro) and Luisa Miller (Wurm) in Bologna; La Cenerentola (Alidoro) in Tokyo; Tosca and La bohème (Colline) in Tel Aviv; Carmen and Domingo in Verdi Opera Night at the Arena di Verona; Le nozze di Figaro (Figaro) in Catania.