Xavier Sabata
{{short description|Spanish operatic countertenor (born 1976)}}
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Xavier Sabata Corominas (born 1976 in Avià, Catalonia) is a Spanish operatic countertenor.{{Cite web|url=https://www.elperiodico.com/es/ocio-y-cultura/20170208/cronica-stabat-mater-xabier-sabata-palau-5794124|title=Conmovedor 'Stabat mater' con Xavier Sabata|first=César López|last=Rosell|date=February 8, 2017|website=elperiodico}}
Discography
- I Dilettanti - cantatas and arias by Emanuele d'Astorga, Giacomo Maccari, Benedetto Marcello, Giovanni Maria Ruggieri. Latinitas nostra, Markellos Chryssikos, Aparté - AP093
- Handel: Bad Guys - Il Pomo d'Oro, Riccardo Minasi, Aparté - AP048
- The 5 Countertenors - singing Porpora: Tu, spietato, non farai cader vittima (from Ifigenia in Aulide) and Handel: Voi che udite il mio lamento (from Agrippina), with Yuriy Minenko, Max Emanuel Cencic, Valer Barna-Sabadus, Vince Yi, Armonia Atenea, George Petrou, Decca - 4788094
- Amore X Amore, Viaggio in Italia, Handel cantatas - Xavier Sabata, Forma Antiqua, Winter and Winter - 9101622
- Le Jardin des Voix - Les Arts Florissants, William Christie
- Cavalli: Miracolo D’amore - Love Airs and Duets by Francesco Cavalli. Raquel Andueza (soprano) & Xavier Sabata (countertenor), La Galanía. Anima E Corpo - AEC006 2016
- Catharsis - arias by Ariosti, Caldara, Conti, Handel, Hasse, Orlandini, Sarro, Pietro Torri, Vivaldi. Armonia Atenea, George Petrou, Aparté - AP143 2017
;Selected opera recordings
- Handel: Arminio - Xavier Sabata (as Tullio), George Petrou, Decca - 4788764
- Vivaldi: L'Oracolo in Messenia - Xavier Sabata (as Alessandro), Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi, Erato - 6025472
- Cavalli: La Didone - Xavier Sabata (as Larba), Les Arts Florissants, William Christie & Clément Hervieu-Léger (director), Recorded live at the Théâtre de Caen, October 2011 Opus Arte - OABD7106D
- Stefano Landi: Il Sant'Alessio - Xavier Sabata. Orchestra and Chorus of Les Arts Florissants, William Christie, Erato - 5189999
- Handel: Faramondo - Xavier Sabata (Gernando), Choeur de la Radio Suisse, Lugano & I Barocchisti, Diego Fasolis, Erato - 2166112
- Cesti: Orontea - Xavier Sabata (Alidoro), Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester, Ivor Bolton Oehms - OC965
- Handel: Tamerlano - Xavier Sabata (Tamerlano), Minasi Naive - V5373
- Handel: Alessandro - Xavier Sabata (Tassile), Armonia Atenea, George Petrou, Decca - 4784699
- Handel: Ottone - Xavier Sabata (Adalberto), Max Emanuel Cenčić, Lauren Snouffer, Pavel Kudinov, Decca - 4831814
References
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External links
- {{official website|http://www.xaviersabata.com/}}
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Category:Operatic countertenors
Category:Opera singers from Catalonia
Category:21st-century Spanish male opera singers
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