José Fardilha - Baritone - W Print

Born in Lisbon, José Fardilha began his vocal studies with Cristina de Castro and made his debut in 1984 at the Teatro São Carlos performing the role of Masetto in Don Giovanni. Also in Lisbon, he has sung Le nozze di Figaro (Figaro), La bohème (Marcello), L’italiana in Algeri (Taddeo), La traviata (Germont), La Cenerentola (Dandini and Alidoro), Carmen, Manon Lescaut, Gianni Schicchi, Lucia di Lammermoor, La Fille du régiment, Candide, and Der Schauspieldirektor.

Winner of the 21st “Toti dal Monte” International Competition, in 1989 he sang Leporello in Don Giovanni in Treviso and Rovigo, a role he later reprised at the Opéra du Rhin in Strasbourg and the Teatro Verdi in Trieste. This was followed by Falstaff in Treviso under Peter Maag; Rinaldo (Argante) in Lisbon in a production by Pier Luigi Pizzi; and his debut at La Scala in Milan in Pergolesi’s Lo frate 'nnamorato (Don Pietro), conducted by Riccardo Muti and directed by Roberto De Simone. In 1993 he debuted as Figaro at the Opéra de Paris and in Falstaff at La Scala, where he later returned for La bohème (Schaunard), Les contes d’Hoffmann (Schlemil), La Cenerentola (Dandini), and Il turco in Italia (Poet).

José Fardilha has performed in major Italian and international opera houses and at prestigious festivals. Among his most acclaimed appearances: Otello (Montano) with Claudio Abbado in Berlin, Salzburg, and Turin; Don Giovanni (Masetto) at the Salzburg Festival; and international tours with the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and Zubin Mehta in China (Turandot) and Japan (La traviata, Turandot).

Past season highlights include: Le jongleur de Notre Dame (Moine Peintre) at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma; La pietra del paragone (Macrobio) at the Martina Franca Festival; La rondine (Rambaldo), Le convenienze e inconvenienze teatrali (Mamm’Agata), and Jerusalem (Count of Toulouse) at the Teatro Regio in Turin. He has appeared at the New Israeli Opera in Don Pasquale (Malatesta), La Cenerentola, L’italiana in Algeri, and Don Giovanni; at the Teatro de La Maestranza in Seville in Lucia di Lammermoor; at the Opernhaus Zürich in Le nozze di Figaro, L’elisir d’amore, Turandot, and La Cenerentola; at the Wiener Staatsoper in L’elisir d’amore; and at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Don Giovanni (Leporello) and La Cenerentola (Dandini).

He has performed Marcello (La bohème) at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin and Schaunard at the Teatro Comunale di Firenze. He sang Oedipus Rex with the Orchestra Sinfonica “Giuseppe Verdi” in Milan conducted by Riccardo Chailly; and Roméo et Juliette (Capulet) with the Münchner Rundfunkorchester conducted by Paolo Carignani. His repertoire also includes Titta in Una cosa rara by Martín y Soler, La Diana schernita, The Dream of Gerontius, Un segreto di importanza by Rendine, Handel’s Semele at La Fenice in Venice, and Paisiello’s La passione di Gesù Cristo (recorded with RTSI Lugano).

More recently, he has performed Don Giovanni in Berlin, Stuttgart, Amsterdam, Geneva, Dresden, Athens, Budapest, Edinburgh, and New York; Don Pasquale (Malatesta) in Lisbon, Leipzig, and at the Glyndebourne Festival; Il cappello di paglia di Firenze and Gianni Schicchi in Lisbon; La bohème in Paris, Genoa, and Toulouse; Manon Lescaut on tour in Italy, Lisbon, and Leipzig; Tosca in Toulouse and Warsaw; La Cenerentola (Don Magnifico) in Zurich, Lisbon, and Leipzig; L’italiana in Algeri (Taddeo) in Santiago de Chile; Il barbiere di Siviglia in Madrid, Barcelona, Stuttgart, Berlin (Staatsoper), London, Leipzig, Santiago de Chile, Copenhagen, and Moscow; La damnation de Faust at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and in Turin; Il viaggio a Reims (Trombonok) in Copenhagen and Moscow; Così fan tutte (Don Alfonso) in Glyndebourne, Santiago de Chile, and on tour with the Welsh National Opera; La rondine on tour in Korea with the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

August 2025

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