Fernando del Valle

Fernando del Valle
del Valle in 2010
Background information
Birth nameBrian Stephen Skinner
Born(1964-02-28)February 28, 1964
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
GenresOpera
OccupationOpera singer
InstrumentTenor

Fernando del Valle (né Brian Stephen Skinner; February 28, 1964) is an American operatic tenor. He is the son of Edward King Skinner II, a Korean War veteran and Concha Marina Meléndez del Valle the cousin of George Melendez Wright. He is the grandson of Aranka Bischitz great-great-granddaughter of Baroness Johanna Bischitz von Heves and niece of Hungarian radiochemist and Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate George de Hevesy. He is the nephew of the Architect Manuel Roberto Meléndez Bischitz.