Giacomo Nanni

Winner of the 2025 Aslico Competition for the role of Dulcamara in L’elisir d’amore and a former student of the Accademia Rossiniana in Pesaro, Giacomo also won third prize at the 2023 Cesti Competition in Innsbruck.

In opera, he made his debut in the roles of Schaunard in Puccini’s La Bohème (Sandnes, Norway), Figaro in Paisiello’s Il barbiere di Siviglia (Siena), Alidoro in Rossini’s La Cenerentola (Fondazione Rete Lirica delle Marche), Guglielmo in Mozart’s Così fan tutte (Varese) and Leporello in Mozart’s Don Giovanni (Vicenza and Rome), Bibi – the precursor to Leporello – in Melani’s L’Empio punito (Rome and Rieti, DVD for Dynamic), Pallante in Handel’s Agrippina (Stockholm), Minos in Handel’s Ariadne in Crete (Innsbruck), Altomaro in Handel’s Sosarme (Versailles), Esau in the world premiere of J. Barber’s The Song of the Ladder (Prato), Ben in The Telephone and Mr Gobineau in G. Menotti’s The Medium (Milan and Varese), Vittorio in Rota’s I due timidi (Rieti, CD and DVD for Dynamic), Menippus in Il giudizio di Paride by M. Panni (Rome), Antinous in Il ritorno di Ulisse in Patria by Monteverdi (Rome and Rieti), Arcade in Ifigenia in Aulide by Caldara (Innsbruck), Saturnus in La divisione del mondo by Legrenzi (Kiel), Jupiter in Amore e Psiche by Fux (Graz), Uberto in Pergolesi’s La serva padrona (Saint-Michel) and Tracollo in Pergolesi’s Livietta e Tracollo (Varese), Walton in Bellini’s I Puritani (Paris) and Lord Sidney in Rossini’s Il viaggio a Reims (Pesaro).

He has worked with conductors such as Ottavio Dantone (Innsbruck State Theatre), Giacomo Sagripanti (Paris, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées), Francesco Corti (Stockholm, Drottningholm Palace Theatre), Alfredo Bernardini (Graz, Schloss Eggenberg), Enrico Saverio Pagano (Milan, Teatro dal Verme), Jonathan Webb (Prato, Church of S. Domenico), Hélio Vida (Opéra de Toulon), Angelo Michele Errico (Siena, Teatro dei Rinnovati), Alessandro Quarta (Theater Kiel and Teatro Flavio Vespasiano), Marcello Panni (Rome, Teatro Palladium), Riccardo Doni (Stresa, Palazzo dei Congressi), Andrea Foti (Pesaro, Teatro Sperimentale), Edmondo Mosè Savio (Vicenza, Teatro Olimpico) and Gabriele Bonolis (Norway, Sandnes Kulturhus). Also active in the concert sphere, he has sung the bass solo part in J. S. Bach’s St Matthew Passion and has performed at various festivals including the Reate Festival, the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, the ‘Vesperali’ festival in Lugano, the Urbino Musica Antica festival and the Festival International de Musique in Algiers.

Upcoming engagements this season include a return to Cremona for L’incoronazione di Poppea, a performance in Innsbruck with Ottavio Dantone, and his debut at the Donizetti OperaFestival in Le convenienze e inconvenienze teatrali.