GiovanniSala

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  • Tenor

About Giovanni

Described as a ‘revelation’ and ‘vocally flawless’, Giovanni Sala has established himself as one of the leading tenors of his generation, with regular engagements in the top theatres worldwide.

In the 2024/25 season, Sala will perform Alfredo La Traviata at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino; Tamino Die Zauberflöte and Don Ottavio Don Giovanni at the Bayerische Staatsoper; Tito La Clemenza di Tito at the Monte Carlo Opera; L’Opera Seria by F.L.Gassmann at the Teatro alla Scala; and a tour of Messa da Requiem conducted by Maestro Riccardo Muti.

Other notable engagements include Don Ottavio Don Giovanni at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Teatro Massimo di Palermo; Nicias in a new production of Massenet’s Thaïs and Prunier La Rondine at the Teatro alla Scala; Rodolfo La bohème at Bayerische Staatsoper; Alfredo La Traviata at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma; and Fenton Falstaff at the Ravenna Festival with Riccardo Muti.

In equal demand for concert work, Giovanni has appeared in Haydn’s Paukenmesse with Pablo Heras-Casado at the Teatro alla Scala and in Beethoven's Missa Solemnis under the baton of Riccardo Muti with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Sir John Eliot Gardiner at the BBC Proms. He has also recently appeared in concert alongside Sonya Yoncheva, and in Mozart’s Requiem at the Festival l’Offrande Musicale in Toulouse.

Giovanni was born in Lecco and studied at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Como with Fiorenza Cedolins. He pursued his musical studies further at the Accademia Teatro alla Scala in Milan, working with Luciana d’Intino and Marcelo Álvarez. Giovanni won numerous awards, among them the Second Prize at the Queen Sonja Competition (2017) and the AsLiCo Competition (2014).

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Season Highlights

Nov 2025 - Nov 2025
Teatro alla Scala, Milan
Mozart: Così fan tutte (Ferrando) Alexander Soddy (conductor)
Jan 2026 - Jan 2026
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Verdi: La Traviata (Alfredo Germont) Antonello Manacorda (Conductor)
Feb 2026 - Mar 2026
Teatro Regio Torino
Verdi: Macbeth (Macduff) Riccardo Muti (conductor)

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Selected Repertoire

Donizetti

Elisir d'amore (Nemorino)   •   Lucia di Lammermoor (Edgardo)

Leoncavallo

Pagliacci (Peppe)

Massanet

Thais (Nicias)

Monteverdi

L'Orfeo (Orpheus)

Mozart

Die Zauberflote (Tamino)   •   Don Giovanni (Don Ottavio)   •   Zaide (Gomatz)   •   Cosi fan tutte (Ferrando)

Puccini

Gianni Schicchi (Rinuccio)   •   La Rondine (Prunier)   •   La Boheme (Rodolfo)

Ravel

L’Heure Espagnole (Gonsalve)

Verdi

Falstaff (Fenton)   •   Macbeth (Macduff)   •   Stiffelio (Raffaele)   •   Rigoletto (Duke of Mantua)   •   La Traviata (Alfredo)   •   Otello (Cassio)   •   Un Ballo in Maschera (Riccardo)