Giovanni Tarasconi

Giovanni Tarasconi was born in Sassari, Italy. In 1995, he graduated in Architecture from the Polytechnic University of Milan with a thesis on the set designs of Giuseppe Verdi’s Otello, in collaboration with the Teatro alla Scala. He began his singing studies in 1993 at the Milan Conservatory and privately with Maestro Anatolij Goussev. He received master classes from Simone Alaimo, Nicolaj Ghiaurov, Mirella Freni, Sergio Bertocchi, and Gianni Mastino. Since 1998, he has had a distinguished career as a solo singer in Italy and Spain, performing in prestigious theaters and auditoriums such as the Teatro La Fenice in Venice and the Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona, among others. Since 2006, he has dedicated himself to teaching diction and expression in Italian applied to singing and has collaborated with renowned schools and institutions, including the Sydney Conservatorium in Australia and AIMS (The American Institute of Musical Studies) in Graz, Austria. He has published a guide on Italian diction for opera singers and will soon publish a specific dictionary on the language of Italian librettos. Since 2023, he has been a professor of Italian applied to singing at the Reina Sofía School of Music in Madrid.