FRANCESCO BIAMONTE
multidisciplinary artist
Francesco Biamonte is a stage and radio performer who practices and explores various forms of musical theatre. He conceives and performs shows between prose, shadow theatre and music with the Italians of Controluce in Switzerland, Italy and Germany.
Biography
He has collaborated on several occasions with Cod.Act, alias André and Michel Décosterd (Grand Prix Suisse de Musique 2019), with performances in New York, Le Locle, Wroclaw, Lucerne, Malta, Toulouse, Tokyo and Rio. He is one of the four singers in Sottovoce, the latest creation of the dance company Linga (2020), soon to be performed in Zagreb, Olten and Leverkusen. He conceived and wrote Les Clochards célestes du Rebetiko with Benjamin Knobil, a necromantic cabaret based on the songs of Greek exiles in the 1920s, which he performed alongside Boulouris, Dominique Tille and Maria de la Paz, among others, in several French-speaking venues in 2021.
In more conventional repertoires, Francesco has performed on various opera stages (Lausanne, Rennes, Besançon, Vichy), under the direction of Leonardo Garcia Alarcón in Ambronay, Geneva and Tannay, and at the Villa Giusti during the season of the Accademia Filarmonica of Verona. He has also performed some of the great roles of the lyrical repertoire with the Avant-Scène Opéra de Neuchâtel. Francesco Biamonte is also a friend of the radio microphone, in particular as producer and host of the exploratory programme Quoi (RTS-Espace2).