Massimiliano Drapello

Taught by Maria Noè Negrelli, Lino Puglisi and Franco Corelli, Massimiliano Drapello spent a further three years on acting technique in a method derived from the Actors Studio in New York. His early roles were Pollione in Norma and Loris Ipanoff in Giordano's Fedora, the latter at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa in a production with Mirella Freni; he has also worked with Katia Ricciarelli. At the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma he appeared in Respighi's Marie Victoire and Franco Alfano's La leggenda di Sakùntala, and he has sung Alfredo in La traviata at the Teatro Brancaccio in Rome.