Tino Favazza

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Tino Favazza on stage, May 18, 2007

Cateno Favazza, better known by his stage name Tino Favazza, is an Italian operatic tenor and bel canto singer from Sicily.

1 Early years
2 Career
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Early years

Tino Favazza was born on April 11, 1958 in Gaggi, Sicily, a small village of the Alcantara river valley near Taormina.

Over the last ten years, Enrico Faccini, an expert opera tenor, has continuously and personally followed Favazza’s artistic education, which started at the age of six. From childhood, Favazza participated in many musical events (festivities, ceremonies, church concerts, theatres, recordings, Sicilian television shows...)^[1], including several editions of the Sicilian Song Festival.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Career

In 2002, Tino was awarded the Giuseppe Di Stefano award for “Best Sicilian Tenor”, which he received from Di Stefano personally.^{[citation needed]}

Tino Favazza

In the last decade, Tino Favazza has toured Europe several times and performed in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain ans Switzerland . He collaborated with a number of international artists in lyric, classic and ethnic music concerts. Particularly important were his appearances in Vienna, Graz, Ljubljana and at the Kolarac concert hall in Belgrade.

His voice has been described as an “antique voice” and recognised for being rare and extraordinary for its ductility, nature, expressivity and colour.^{[citation needed]}

In February 2001, he participated as “Best voice” in the Brussels International Festival, after which he was contacted by the theatre of the Russian House, where he performed classic and lyric Italian melodies in celebration of the venue’s eightieth anniversary. He was the first Italian tenor ever to sing in this prestigious theatre.^{[citation needed]} In the same year, he was invited to participate as guest of honor in Byelorussia’s international music festival, the “Slabenski Vitevsk Bazaar”.

In 2004, he participated in the “Mia Martini” Festival where he received the prize for “Best interpretation, expression and style”,^{[citation needed]} as he presented an unknown piece composed by the famous author and composer Sanja Ilič, leader of the Balkanica band.

Since the mid-1990s, Tino Favazza has been regularly invited to perform in the major cities of Japan.^{[citation needed]}

In 2007, Tino Favazza met Michel Elefteriades who proposed a collaboration on the fusion of Bel canto and Oriental music. An album is to be released in 2008. In addition, Tino Favazza continues touring in Europe, Canada, Brazil, U.S.A., Japan.