Ferruccio Furlanetto Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Ferruccio Furlanetto (born 16 May 1949 in Sacile, Italy) is an Italian bass. His professional debut was in 1974 in Lonigo, he debuted at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan in 1979, in a production of Verdi's Macbeth, conducted by Claudio Abbado. He has gone on to sing numerous roles, including both Don Giovanni and Leporello in Mozart's Don Giovanni, Philip II in Verdi's Don Carlos, Figaro in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, Gremin in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, Zaccaria in Verdi's Nabucco, Méphistophélès in Gounod's Faust, Orestes in Strauss' Elektra, Fiesco in Verdi's Simon Boccanegra, the title role of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, as well as many other roles.He has sung in the world's major opera houses. He debuted at the Metropolitan Opera in the 1980/81 season, and has performed at the Opéra de Paris (Bastille), the Salzburg Easter Festival and the regular Salzburg Festival, Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, the Vienna Staatsoper, the Tel Aviv Opera, and the Royal Opera House in London.His appearances in the United States have been primarily with the Metropolitan Opera and San Diego Opera. With the latter company, he has sung the title role in Oberto (1985), Méphistophélès in Faust (1988 and 2001), the title role in Don Giovanni (1993 and 2000), King Philip in Don Carlo (2004), Basilio in Il barbiere di Siviglia (2006), and his only US appearances in the title roles in Boris Godunov (2007) and Don Quichotte in 2009. He reprised his performance in Don Quichotte in Palermo and in Mariinsky Theater (St.Petersburg) in 2010, and his first USA performances of Thomas Becket in Pizzetti's Assassinio nella cattedrale will be there in 2013.He is also widely in demand as a concert singer. He sang in Mozart's Coronation Mass under the baton of Herbert von Karajan, in an extraordinary performance at the Vatican in the presence of Pope John Paul II that was broadcast worldwide. He has appeared often in recital at La Scala, the Berlin Deutsche Oper, the Gran Teatro del Liceu of Barcelona, the Vienna Musikverein, the BBC Proms 2011 in the Royal Albert Hall, and many other venues.On DVD, Furlanetto can be seen as the Grand Inquisiteur in Verdi's Don Carlos, in a production conducted by James Levine and staged by John Dexter, from the Met, in 1983. Also in the cast are Plácido Domingo, Mirella Freni, Grace Bumbry, Louis Quilico and Nicolai Ghiaurov. He can also be seen as King Philip II in the same work, under the baton of Herbert von Karajan, with Jose Carreras, Piero Cappuccilli, and Matti Salminen. Furlanetto is featured in a DVD of Mozart's Don Giovanni, playing the part of Leporello, under the baton of Herbert von Karajan conducting the Vienna Philharmonic in the 1987 Salzburg Festival. Furthermore, Furlanetto plays the part of Sparafucile in Jean-Pierre Ponnelle's 1982 production of Rigoletto (alongside Luciano Pavarotti). He also appears in I Vespri Siciliani, a 1989 Scala production conducted by Riccardo Muti.
Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera, Golden Mask Award for Opera/Best Actor
Movies
Rigoletto, Verdi: I Vespri Siciliani, Karajan: Mozart: Don Giovanni, Mozart: Don Giovanni (Metropolitan Opera), Karajan: Mozart - Coronation Mass, Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (Vienna State Opera), Arrigo Boito: Mefistofele
Star Sign
Taurus
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Fact
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Opera singer (bass).
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live
2010-2012
TV Series
Don Ruy Gomez de Silva / Philip II - King of Spain
Simon Boccanegra
2010
TV Movie
Fiesco / Jacopo
Simon Boccanegra, Melodramma in un prologo e tre atti
2010
TV Movie
Jacopo Fiesco
Don Carlo
2010
TV Movie
Phillip II King of Spain
Il Barbiere di Siviglia
2009
TV Movie
Basilio
Macbeth
2009
TV Movie
Banquo
Don Carlo
2008
TV Movie
Filippo II, Re di Spagna
Eugen Onegin
2007
TV Movie
Prince Gremin
Simon Boccanegra
2002/II
TV Movie
Jacopo Fiesco
Don Giovanni
2000
TV Movie
Leporello
Nabucco
2000
TV Movie
Zaccaria
Don Pasquale
1994
TV Movie
Don Pasquale
Don Giovanni
1991/II
TV Movie
Leporello
Le nozze di Figaro - Die Hochzeit des Figaro
1991
TV Movie
Figaro, Kammerdiener des Grafen
The Metropolitan Opera Presents
1983-1990
TV Series
Leporello
Don Basilio
The Grand Inquisitor
I vespri siciliani
1989
TV Movie
Giovanni da Procida, medico siciliano
Così fan tutte
1988
TV Movie
Guglielmo
Il viaggio a Reims
1988
TV Movie
Lord Sidney
Don Giovanni
1987/II
TV Movie
Leporello
Giuseppe Verdi: Don Carlos
1986
TV Movie
Philip II, King of Spain
Rigoletto
1982
Sparafucile
La traviata
1982
The Voices of (singing voice)
The Barber of Seville
1981
TV Movie
Basilio
La Gioconda
1979
TV Movie
Alvise Badoero
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
Combien tu m'aimes?
2005
performer: "I Vespri Siciliani - Movement III: L'Estate excerpt"
Claudio Abbado: Die Stille nach der Musik
1996
TV Movie documentary performer: "Elektra"
Patrice Chéreau, Pascal Greggory, une autre solitude
1995
TV Movie documentary performer: "Don Giovanni excerpt"
The Metropolitan Opera Presents
1991
TV Series performer - 1 episode
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Pappano's Classical Voices
2015
TV Series documentary
Himself
BBC Proms
2011
TV Series
Himself - Soloist
Great Performances
2005
TV Series
The Metropolitan Opera Presents
1991-1996
TV Series
Himself / Surprise Guest at Prince Orlofsky's party
Patrice Chéreau, Pascal Greggory, une autre solitude