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Equally at home on the concert stage, he interpreted Beethoven´s Ninth Symphony in Russia under the baton of Ilmar Lapinsch and Frank Martin´s Sechs Monologe aus Jedermann für Bariton und Orchester in the Orchesterhaus in Salzburg under the baton of Hans Graf.His repertoire encompasses many contemporary and new works: in the Austrian premiere of Manfred Trojahn´s Die Limonen aus Sizilien directed by Kai Röhrig and Mascha Pörzgen at the Mozarteum he interpreted the role of Alberto Serra; in Jeppe Jacobsen´s "Der Sonnenkreis" staged by Barbara Bonney at the Oper im Berg Festival, he sang the role of Aryandes, and in the joint premieres of Christopher Preissing´s Inferno and Robert Kyr´s Paradiso at the DeBartolo Center for the Performing Arts in Notre Dame, IN, under the patronage of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, NY, he created the part of Dante.Fernando is a recipient of the Audience Prize and the Verdi Prize at the 2016 Grandi Voci International Singing Competition under the patronage of KS Grace Bumbry.Highlights of the 2017 Season are the title role in Rossini´s "Il Barbiere di Siviglia" at the Schloss Amerang in Bavaria, Papageno with the Philharmonie Salzburg, a Gala of Italian Opera aside Kammersängerin Grace Bumbry with Oper im Berg Festival in Salzburg, and the world-premiere of "Troja" by Jeppe Jacobsen and Ingo Kolonerics at the Skive Opera Festival, Denmark.
Fernando is a soloist of the Philharmonie Salzburg, the Salzburger Konzertgesellschaft and Oper im Berg Festival and cultural ambassador and co-founder of the Amadeus International Culture Committee. He is a dual citizen of Brazil and Italy and lives in Salzburg.