Giuseppe Sabbatini

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Giuseppe Sabbatini (b. May 1, 1957, Rome, Italy) is a lyric tenor.

His opera repertoire includes Idomeneo, Mitridate, re di Ponto, Don Giovanni, Linda di Chamounix, La Favorita, L'elisir d'amore, Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda, Roberto Devereux, Lucrezia Borgia, I Puritani, Rigoletto, La Traviata, Falstaff, La Bohème, Eugene Onegin, Auber's Fra Diavolo, Werther, Manon, Thaïs, La Damnation de Faust, Benvenuto Cellini, Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Orphée aux Enfers Les Pêcheurs de Perles and Gounod's Faust. He has sang in the leading opera houses of the world, such as La Scala (his usual base), the Vienna Staatsoper, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and others. Sabbatini made his acclaimed debut in the USA in February 2001, at the New York Metropolitan Opera, singing the leading tenor role in Massenet's Manon.

Film for TV were made with Giuseppe Sabbatini in the operas Robert Devereux (1997), La Traviata (2001), and La Damnation de Faust (1999).

Giuseppe Sabbatini has won several national and international voice competitions, such as the Jussi Björling Prize in 1987, the Caruso Prize and the Lauri Volpi Prize in 1990, the 1991 Abbiati Prize for Vocal Interpretation, and the 1996 Tito Schipa Prize.

On April 25, 2003 Sabbatini received the title of Kammersänger by the Vienna Staatsoper.