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Massimo Giordano, was born in Pompei a small village near Naples, Italy. He is born to Alberto a stonesman and Anna a homemaker and has one sister, Marilena.

He studied singing with Cecilia Fusco and later graduated from the conservatory “G. Tartini” in Trieste. In 1997 he won the “A. Bellini” competition in Spoleto where he also gave his debut in La Clemenza di Tito at the Teatro Lirico and in La Traviata at the Teatro Nuovo.

In the following years further major debuts included La Traviata in Tokyo, Falstaff at the London Royal Opera, L’Elisir d’Amore at the Vienna State Opera, the Verdi Requiem in Sydney, La Traviata at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Gianni Schicchi at the Glyndebourne Festival, his New York debut in a concert of Mignon at Carnegie Hall, Romeo and Juliette at the Munich State Opera and at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, La boheme at the Berlin Staatsoper and Il trittico at the New York Metropolitan Opera where he later also sang in La Traviata, La boheme and L’Elisir d’Amore,

In theaters you see him perform with conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Maurizio Benini, Riccardo Chailly, Bruno Campanella, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Gianluigi Gelmetti, James Levine, Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, Vladimir Jurowski, Antonio Pappano, Michel Plasson, Yuri Temirkanov, Fabio Luisi or Marco Armiliato and aside famous fellow opera singers.

On October 29, 2012 Massimo Giordano signed an exclusive master right agreement with BMG Rights Management. The album will be released early in 2013.

Massimo Giordano resides with his family in Trieste, Italy where his career began