Sandro Naglia is an Italian-born musician and actor currently based in Jersey City, NJ, U.S.A. He earned a Master’s in Vocal Performance from the Music Conservatoire of Pescara (Italy), and a Master’s in Humanities from Rome University.

As a tenor, he made his debut in 1987 at the Teatro Carcano in Milan singing Falla’s El retablo de Maese Pedro, and two years later he distinguished himself in Monteverdi’s Vespers of the Blessed Virgin conducted by Sir John Eliot Gardiner in London, Venice, and at the Bath Festival, recorded by DG-Archiv, starting then an international career.

He has performed throughout Europe, North and South America, Asia and Oceania (Accademia di S. Cecilia in Rome, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Wiener Musikverein, Wiener Konzerthaus, Konzerthaus Berlin, Edinburgh Festival, Flanders Festival, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, New York Lincoln Centre, Frick Collection Concert Series, Opera houses of Rome, Bologna, Genoa, Venice, Palermo, Monte-Carlo) under such conductors as Sir J.E. Gardiner, S. Preston, G. Gelmetti, G. Ferro, S. Bedford, R. Alessandrini. Over the years, his repertoire has ranged from Renaissance and Baroque music (often performed with Early Music groups, as Concerto Italiano and La Venexiana) to Classic and Romantic operas, oratorios and symphonic works; from German Lied to 21st century music, including many world creations.

He has recorded more than forty CDs for DG-Archiv, Naive-Opus 111, Glossa and other labels. 

In 2000 he began to study conducting, which since 2007 (Monteverdi’s Orfeo at the Spring Early Music Festival in Melbourne, Australia) has been developing as a parallel activity to singing. He was on the podium of such orchestras as I Pomeriggi Musicali of Milan, “T. Schipa” Symphony Orchestra of Lecce (Italy), I Solisti Aquilani (Italy), Orquesta del Reino de Aragón (Spain), Plovdiv State Philharmonic Orchestra (Bulgaria), Debrecen Philharmonic Orchestra (Hungary), Filarmonica Banatul Timişoara (Romania), “B. Lyatoshins’kij” Chamber Orchestra of Kiev (Ukraine) etc. in a repertoire ranging from 17th to 20th century music, with special focus on late-Romantic.

Since 1996 he has regularly been teaching in courses and seminars in Italy and abroad, and has been invited to give Master Classes by such institutions as University of Southern California Los Angeles, University of Oregon, University of Melbourne, Academy of Music and Opera House of Tashkent etc. He is currently Adjunct Faculty in Music Appreciation at the Union College of Union County, Cranford, NJ.

Moreover, after moving to the United States he has also resumed his activity as an actor, which began in Italy in the 90s, taking part in many movies, TV series and podcasts.

He authored several books, and has translated into Italian works by Henry James, Fernando Pessoa, and Marguerite Duras.