Fernando del Valle

Fernando del Valle is an American operatic tenor. He is the son of Edward King Skinner II, a Korean War veteran and Concha Marina Melndez del Valle, the daughter of Baroness Aranka von Bischitz.

He was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. A graduate of Brother Martin High School, he received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Tulane University as the recipient of the Treville Scholarship in Voice, and the Artists Diploma from Southern Methodist University as the Haggar Scholar. As a winner of The Dallas Opera Guild Vocal Competition he was awarded a Career Grant from The Dallas Opera, the winner of the Stewart Award, the Austin Lyric Opera Vocal Competition, the Fort Worth Opera Competition and the Vocal Competition of the San Antonio Opera judged by Evelyn Lear and Richard Gaddes. He is an alumnus of the San Francisco Operas Merola Opera Program where he studied under the direction of Patrick Summers in 1992 and 1993. He later won the Bel Canto competition of Chicago and subsequently relocated to Italy where he studied under Carlo Bergonzi and, later, Thomas Hayward and Elena Nikolaidi.

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