Biography
Raffaele Giordani holds a Master Degree in Chemistry at Ferrara University, Italy and a Master Degree in Canto Rinascimentale e Barocco with honorable mention. He is currently under the supervision of M. Luisa Vannini.
He collaborates with an extensive list of the best Italian and European ensembles for Early and Baroque music, such as Concerto Italiano, Coro e Orchestra Ghislieri, Vox Luminis, La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Malapunica, Odhecaton, De Labyrintho. He was for long a member of La Venexiana and he is one of the founding member of La Compagnia Del Madrigale.
His soloist baroque repertoire includes: Johannes and Matthäus Passion, Magnificat, B minor Mass and many other works from J.S.Bach; opera roles and cantatas from G. F. Händel; Vespro della B.V. M. and Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda of C. Monteverdi; Requiem by W. A. Mozart, Petite Messe Solennelle by G. Rossini working together to conductors as, among others, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Michael Radulescu, Ottavio Dantone, Fabio Bonizzoni, Giulio Prandi, Lionel Meunier, Diego Fasolis, Robert King, Jos van Veldhoven, Jordi Savall.
He interpreted, in many Early music Festivals and Operas in Italy, Europe and abroad, the principal tenor roles of the three Monteverdi’s operas; Eurillo in Gli equivoci nel sembiante by A. Scarlatti, Second Isrealite and Mordecai in the oratorio Esther by G. F. Händel; A Shepherd in G. Caccini’s Euridice; Tempo e Corpo in Rappresentazione di Anima e Corpo by E. De Cavalieri. A Sailor in Dido And Aeneas by H. Purcell at Fondazione Arena di Verona. King Oebalo in Apollo et Hyacintus by Mozart, at Teatro Manoel in La Valletta, Malta.
He also recorded for Naїve, Glossa, Ricercar, Arcana, Amadeus, Stradivarius, Bottega Discantica, Tactus, Rai-Radio 3, Deutsche Grammophon (directed by Claudio Abbado), WDR, OFR and RSI. His recordings won several awards as Diapason d’or de l’année, Gramophone award, Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik, Choc de l’année, Midem Classical Award, Record Academy Award (Japan), disco del mese Amadeus and many other Diapason d’or and “Choc” by Classica.
