In 2025 Paolo Fanale can be seen as PYLADES at the  Elbphilharmonie Hamburg and at the Baden Baden Festival , as MITRIDATE at the Opéra de Lausanne or ALFREDO at the opera houses of Lima and Bogotá . Moreover, he makes his debut as DON JOSE at the Teatro Verdi in Padua.

The Palermo-born tenor, whose voice was hailed by the press as “...soft, gentle , sweet and of lyrical beauty” in his portrayal of PYLADES in “Iphigenie auf Tauris” at the Baden-Baden Festival Hall, is one of the leading international lyrical tenors.

Since his stage debut as DON OTTAVIO in “Don Giovanni” in Padua, he has conquered the major opera stages worldwide and has worked with conducting personalities such as Claudio Abbado, Zubin Mehta, Kurt Masur, James Levine, Daniel Barenboim , Daniele Gatti or Antonio Pappano.

He sang DON OTTAVIO at the Berlin State Opera, the Semperoper Dresden, at the Salzburg Festival, at the New National Theatre in Tokyo, at the Maggio Fiorentino or at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna . He portrayed FERRANDO in “Cosi fan tutte” at the State Opera Unter den Linden Berlin, the Bavarian State Opera, at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden and in Las Palmas.

He enjoyed huge success as MITRIDATE at the Opéra de Lausanne, as PYLADES in “Iphigenie auf Tauris” at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, the Baden Baden Festival and the Théâtre de Champs Elysées, as ABRACE in “Idomeneo” at the Metropolitan Opera New York or as POLLIONE in “Norma” at the Palm Beach Opera. Before, he had already been POLLIONE at the Gran Teatro del Liceu Barcelona.

His repertoire also includes such roles as TAMINO in Die “Zauberflöte” sung at the Norske Opera, the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, the Dallas Opera, at the Sanxay Festival and at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna. He portrayed LUCIO SCILLA on a Europe tour, TITO in “La Clemenza di Tito” at the Semperoper Dresden, the ABAO Bilbao, the Opéra de Lausanne, at the Gran Teatre del Liceu and in Palermo.

Belcanto roles brought the tenor as NEMORINO to the Vienna State Opera, the Scala di Milano, the Opéra de Paris, to Marseille and to the German Opera Berlin, as ROBERTO in “Maria Stuarda” to the opera houses of Zurich and  Rome, as EDGARDO in “Lucia di Lammermoor”  to the Champs Elysées, as GUALTIERO in Bellini’s “Il Pirata” to Budapest, as ERNESTO to the Opera Las  Palmas de Gran Canaria.

In Verdi roles such as FENTON he succeeded at the Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam, the   Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Metropolitan Opera, the Vienna State Opera,in Marseille and Tokyo or at the Lucerne Festival, as ALFREDO in “La Traviata” at the Berlin State Opera or in Tampere and as DUCA in “Rigoletto” in Padova.

Paolo is also a much sought-after tenor for the French repertoire.  He was ROMÉO in “Roméo et Juliette” at the Théâtre de Champs Elysées, in Monte Carlo or Modena, PÉLLEAS at the Maggio Fiorentino,  NADIR iin a concert version of “Pêcheur de perles”  at the Teatro Reggio Torino, HYLAS or IOPAS at the Teatro alla Scala di Milano and at the Vienna State Opera and FAUST at the  Opera de las Palmas or the Opéra de Lausanne.

Recordings include Mozart‘s Mass in C Minor KV 139 and Schubert‘s Mass in E- flat major 950, recorded at the Salzburg Festival and Falstaff at the Metropolitan Opera.