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Education and training:

Institut del Teatre, Barcelona
Escola Superior de Musica Catalunya
Musikhochschule, Karlsruhe - Hartmut Höll, Mitsuko Shirai

Awards and distinctions:
Ópera Actual (2013)
"Tendències" el Mundo (2014)

Professional work:
- early successes working with William Christie and Les Arts Florissants
- appears with the following ensembles: Europa Galante, Collegium 1704, the Venice Baroque Orchestra, I Barocchisti, Al Ayre Espanol, El Concierto Espanol and Orquesta Barroca Sevilla
- collaborates with the following conductors: Fabio Biondi, René Jacobs, Jordi Savall, Alan Curtis, Gabriel Garrido, Fabio Bonizzoni, Diego Fasolis, Andrea Marcon, Xavier Diaz Latorre, Ivor Bolton, George Petrou, Riccardo Minasi, Harry Bicket and Christopher Moulds
- frequent guest at: Théâtre des Champs-Élysées (Paris), Beaux-Arts (Brussels), Teatro Real (Madrid), Liceu and Palau de la Música (Barcelona), La Fenice (Venice), Krakow Opera, Opéra de Lausanne, Grand Théâtre (Geneva), Theater an der Wien (Vienna), Tchaikovsky Hall (Moscow), and the leading halls in London and New York
- festival appearances: Innsbruck Festival für Alte Musik, Aix-en-Provence, Ambronay, Halle Händel Festival, Festival Via Stellae (Santiago de Compostela)
- his repertoire ranges from Cavalli and Monteverdi, through the heroes of baroque opera seria to premieres of innovative new works such as Fabrice Bollon’s Oscar und Die Dame in Rosa at Theater Freiburg
- solo programme: Bad Guys (Caen, Freiburg, Seville, Barcelona)
- albums: I Dilettanti; Händel: Tamerlano; The 5 Countertenors
- "Gala Night of Countertenors" alongside Max Emanuel Cencic, Yuriy Mynenko and Franco Fagioli (Potsdam, Versailles, Karlsruhe, Hamburg)

Principal roles:
Händel: Alessandro - Tassile
Cesti: Orontea - Alidoro
Händel: Tamerlano - Tamerlano
Händel: Orlando - Orlando
Vivaldi: Farnace - Farnace

Xavier Sabata