Sandro Naglia, born in 1965, graduated from the Academy of Music in Pescara (Italy), and is Bachelor in Arts from Rome University. He attended several Master Classes given by P. Esswood, J. Hamari, E. Werba, C. Desderi, and studied at the Britten-Pears School in Aldeburgh (Great Britain) with A. Rolfe-Johnson and S. Walker.
He made his debut in 1987 at the Carcano Theatre in Milan singing Falla’s El retablo de Maese Pedro, and two years later he distinguished himself in Monteverdi’s Vespers of the Blessed Virgin conducted by Sir J. E. Gardiner in London, Venice and Bath Festival, recorded by DG-ARCHIV.
Since then, he has sung throughout Europe, North and South America, Asia and Oceania, regularly appearing in opera houses (Monte-Carlo, Rome, Bologna, Palermo), major festivals (Edinburgh, Flanders, San Sebastiàn, Schwetzingen, Utrecht) and concert seasons (Academy of S. Cecilia in Rome, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Wiener Musikverein, Wiener Konzerthaus, Konzerthaus Berlin, Radio France, WDR, Société Philharmonique de Bruxelles, S. Petersbourg Philharmonic, Lincoln Centre in New York) under such conductors as Sir J.E. Gardiner, S. Preston, N. Rogers, G. Gelmetti, G. Ferro, S. Bedford, M. de Bernart, C. Desderi, A. Ballista, R. Alessandrini.
His repertoire includes XVIth and XVIIth century music (often performed with Early Music groups, as Concerto Italiano and La Venexiana, with which he has recorded many CDs awarded with Gramophone Award, Deutsche Schallplattenpreis, Grand Prix du Disque), as well as operas, oratorios and symphonic works by Bach, Händel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Rossini, Verdi, Puccini, Weill, Stravinskij, Britten. As a recitalist, he has a predilection for German Lied and XXth century music, with several first performances to his credit.
He has recorded fourty CDs, among which (besides already quoted ones) Frescobaldi’s Arie Musicali (cond. R. Alessandrini - OPUS 111), Händel’s Poro (cond. F. Biondi - OPUS 111), Wolf-Ferrari’s Canzoniere (with A. Ballista, pf. - DISCANTICA) and the recital Song sketches - From Dowland to Dylan (with F. Pavan, lute - ESPERIA).
Since 1996 he regularly teaches in courses and seminars in Italy and abroad, and was invited to give Master Classes by such institutions as University of Southern California Los Angeles, University of Oregon, University of Melbourne, Academy of Music and Opera House of Tashkent: from this ambit I Corpi Celesti (a project of theatre in music) started in 2000. In the same year he began to study conducting, and one year later he made his debut as a conductor with Monteverdi’s Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda. Since then, he has conducted various works by Monteverdi, Cavalli, Vivaldi, Pergolesi, Stravinskij. In 2007 he has conducted Monteverdi’s Orfeo at the Spring Early Music Festival in Melbourne, Australia.
Besides musical activity, he devotes himself to literature: he has translated in Italian works by H. James, F. Pessoa and M. Duras, and he is author of several essays, among which Mann, Mahler, Visconti: «Morte a Venezia» (Pescara, Edizioni Tracce, 1995).