Furio Zanasi is one of Europe’s most highly acclaimed specialists of Monteverdi and early seventeenth-century Italian repertoire. He has appeared at the world’s leading music festivals and has sung in major concert halls: Settembre Musica Torino, Festival Roma Europa, Auditorium di Milano, Venezia, Festival Monteverdi Cremona, Festival del Clavicembalo a Roma, Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Accademia Chigiana, Accademia Filarmonica di Roma, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Utrecht Festival, Beaune, Bruges, Stuttgart, Versailles, Arsenal de Metz, Praga, Salle Gaveau, Salle Pleyel and Cité de la Musique Paris, Wiener Konzerthaus, Folle Journée Nantes, Styriarte Graz, Festival di Edimburgo, Salzburg Festival, Siviglia, Quincena de San Sebastian, Auditori de Barcelona, Fundação Gulbenkian, London Lufthansa Festival, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Carnegie Hall, Festival Ambronay, Lisbon-Belem, Berkeley, Khioi Hall Tokyo, USA, Cuba, Bolivia, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Peru, Singapore, Australia, etc., working alongside conductors such as Jordi Savall, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, René Jacobs, Alan Curtis, Gabriel Garrido, Maurizio Pollini, Ivor Bolton, Reinhard Goebel, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Alessandro De Marchi, Ottavio Dantone, Andrea Marcon, Federico Maria Sardelli, Philippe Herreweghe, Thomas Hengelbrock, Diego Fasolis, Riccardo Chailly, etc.
He made his debut as Marcello in La Bohème at the 1987 Battistini competition and has subsequently performed in opera houses across the world: Opera di Roma, Bellini di Catania, Nuovo di Spoleto, Ponchielli Cremona, Petruzzelli Bari, Massimo di Palermo, Messina, Dresdner Semperoper, Liceu di Barcelona, Zarzuela de Madrid, Vigo, Salamanca, Theater Basel, La Fenice, Teatro Malibran, Teatro Regio Torino, Teatro di San Carlo, Staatsoper München, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Opéra de Lyon, Innsbruck, Hannover, Norske Opera Oslo, Teatro alla Scala, Vlaamse Opera, Opéra Garnier Paris, Opera de Bordeaux, La Monnaie, Théâtre de Caen, Luxembourg, Lincoln Center NYC, Chicago, Teatro Colón, Sydney Opera House, Hong Kong, etc.
He is also a renowned chamber musician with a particular interest in German Lied. He has recorded for the principal European radio stations and has made more than 90 CDs and DVDs for numerous labels, including Nuova Era, Symphonia, Dynamic, Stradivarius, Divox, Arts, Bongiovanni, Accord, Classico, Ricercar, Naxos, Chandos, Amadeus, K617, Opus 111, Opus Arte, Virgin Classic, Aliavox, Zig Zag, Soli Deo Gloria, Naïve, and Harmonia Mundi.
