Luca Pisaroni

Luca Pisaroni is an Italian operatic bass-baritone, known for his Mozartean roles.

Pre-career

Pisaroni grew up in Busseto, Parma, Italy. He began his training at the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Milan, continuing his studies in Buenos Aires with Renato Sassola and Rozita Zozulya, and in New York.

Career

Pisaroni's professional debut in the operatic world was in the title role of Mozart's "Le Nozze di Figaro" in Klagenfurt, in 2001. In the same year, he was awarded the Eberhard-Wächter-Medal as “Newcomer of the Season” by the Vienna State Opera. [IMGArtists.com [http://www.imgartists.com/?page=artist&id=141&c=2 Full Biography] , retrieved 4th April, 2008.] [Salzburger Festspiele 2007 [http://www.salzburgerfestspiele.at/downloads/daily26.pdf] , retrieved 4th April, 2008.]

Pisaroni has since appeared in major opera houses and festivals across Europe and America. In 2002, he debuted at the Whitsun Baroque Festival with Haydn’s "Nelson Mass", and at the Salzburg Summer Festival as Masetto in Don Giovanni, where he has performed every summer since.

Opera

Apart from the aforementioned roles, Pisaroni also has an extensive list of onstage performances to his credit, including Publio (from "La Clemenza di Tito") for the Salzburg Festival (with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra), Aix-en-Provence Festival, as well as at the Met, Colline (from "La Bohème") and Leporello (from "Don Giovanni") at the Teatro Real in Madrid and the Opéra Bastille, the latter being where he also performed Melisso (from "Alcina"), Figaro again at the Met, and the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées (at the latter, he performed once more as Papageno in Mozart's "Die Zauberflöte"), Guglielmo (from "Così fan tutte") for the Netherlands Opera, the Glyndebourne, and the Salzburg Mozart Week, Alidoro (from "La Cenerentola") in Santiago, Chile, and Achilla in Händel’s "Giulio Cesare" for Opera Colorado.

Concert

In concert, Pisaroni has sung Zebul in Händel’s Jephtha with the Berlin Philharmonic, conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Also, he has performed Michael Haydn’s "Requiem in C minor" under Ivor Bolton, and Mozart’s "Mass in C Minor" under Mark Minkowski, both at the Salzburg Festival. Furthermore, Pisaroni also has Piccinni’s "Iphigénie en Tauride" with the Orchestre National de France, Mozart’s Coronation Mass at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, and Vivaldi’s "Orlando Furioso" in Toulouse and Brussels under his belt, the last two with Jean-Christophe Spinosi.

References

External links

*San Francisco Opera, [http://sfopera.com/uploads/broadcast/246artistbios.pdf Artist Profiles]

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6-7UdXTZz8 YouTube] Vocal Sample; Luca Pisaroni performing "Embraceable You".