Luca Pisaroni
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Luca Pisaroni is an Italian
opera
tic bass-baritone
, known for his Mozartean roles. Although Pisaroni was born in Venezuela
, at the age of four his family moved to Busseto
, Italy were he grew up attending the musical academy by famous local tenor Carlo Bergonzi
. He began his training at the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Milan
, continuing his studies in Buenos Aires
with Renato Sassola and Rozita Zozulya, and also in New York
.
, in 2001. In the same year, he was awarded the Eberhard-Wächter-Medal as “Newcomer of the Season” by the Vienna State Opera
.
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.
) 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, Tiridate en Handel's Radamisto and Fígaro at the Santa Fe Opera
and the Houston Opera and Achilla in Händel
’s Giulio Cesare
for Opera Colorado
.
’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 Marc Minkowski
, both at the Salzburg Festival.
Furthermore, Pisaroni also has Niccolò 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.
Italy
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opera
Opera
Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...
tic bass-baritone
Bass-baritone
A bass-baritone is a high-lying bass or low-lying "classical" baritone voice type which shares certain qualities with the true baritone voice. The term arose in the late 19th century to describe the particular type of voice required to sing three Wagnerian roles: the Dutchman in Der fliegende...
, known for his Mozartean roles. Although Pisaroni was born in Venezuela
Venezuela
Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...
, at the age of four his family moved to Busseto
Busseto
Busseto is a comune in the province of Parma, in Emilia-Romagna in Northern Italy. It was the capital of Stato Pallavicino. Opera composer Giuseppe Verdi was born in the nearby village of Le Roncole and he moved there in 1824...
, Italy were he grew up attending the musical academy by famous local tenor Carlo Bergonzi
Carlo Bergonzi
Carlo Bergonzi is an Italian operatic tenor. Although he performed and recorded some bel canto and verismo roles, he is above all associated with the operas of Giuseppe Verdi, including a large number of the composer's lesser-known works that he helped revive...
. He began his training at the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Milan
Milan
Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...
, continuing his studies in Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...
with Renato Sassola and Rozita Zozulya, and also in New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
.
Career
Pisaroni's professional debut in the operatic world was in the title role of Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro in KlagenfurtKlagenfurt
-Name:Carinthia's eminent linguists Primus Lessiak and Eberhard Kranzmayer assumed that the city's name, which literally translates as "ford of lament" or "ford of complaints", had something to do with the superstitious thought that fateful fairies or demons tend to live around treacherous waters...
, in 2001. In the same year, he was awarded the Eberhard-Wächter-Medal as “Newcomer of the Season” by the Vienna State Opera
Vienna State Opera
The Vienna State Opera is an opera house – and opera company – with a history dating back to the mid-19th century. It is located in the centre of Vienna, Austria. It was originally called the Vienna Court Opera . In 1920, with the replacement of the Habsburg Monarchy by the First Austrian...
.
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
Don Giovanni
Don Giovanni is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and with an Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. It was premiered by the Prague Italian opera at the Teatro di Praga on October 29, 1787...
, 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 TitoLa clemenza di Tito
La clemenza di Tito , K. 621, is an opera seria in two acts composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to an Italian libretto by Caterino Mazzolà, after Metastasio...
) for the Salzburg Festival
Salzburg Festival
The Salzburg Festival is a prominent festival of music and drama established in 1920. It is held each summer within the Austrian town of Salzburg, the birthplace of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart...
(with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
The Vienna Philharmonic is an orchestra in Austria, regularly considered one of the finest in the world....
), Aix-en-Provence
Aix-en-Provence
Aix , or Aix-en-Provence to distinguish it from other cities built over hot springs, is a city-commune in southern France, some north of Marseille. It is in the region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, in the département of Bouches-du-Rhône, of which it is a subprefecture. The population of Aix is...
Festival, as well as at the Met
Met
-In the arts:* Metropolitan Opera in Manhattan, New York* Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan, New York* Various buildings known as the Metropolitan Opera House* The Metropolitan Ensemble Theater in Kansas City, Missouri-In computing and the Internet:...
, Colline (from La Bohème
La bohème
La bohème is an opera in four acts,Puccini called the divisions quadro, a tableau or "image", rather than atto . by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on Scènes de la vie de bohème by Henri Murger...
) and Leporello (from Don Giovanni
Don Giovanni
Don Giovanni is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and with an Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. It was premiered by the Prague Italian opera at the Teatro di Praga on October 29, 1787...
) at the Teatro Real
Teatro Real
The Teatro Real or simply El Real , is a major opera house located in Madrid, Spain.-History:...
in Madrid and the Opéra Bastille
Opéra Bastille
L'Opéra Bastille ' is a modern opera house in Paris, France. It is the home base of the Opéra national de Paris and was designed to replace the Palais Garnier, which is nowadays mainly used for ballet performances....
, the latter being where he also performed Melisso (from Alcina
Alcina
Alcina is an opera seria by George Frideric Handel. Handel used the libretto of L'isola di Alcina, an opera that was set in 1728 in Rome by Riccardo Broschi, which he acquired the year after, during his travels in Italy...
), Figaro again at the Met
Met
-In the arts:* Metropolitan Opera in Manhattan, New York* Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan, New York* Various buildings known as the Metropolitan Opera House* The Metropolitan Ensemble Theater in Kansas City, Missouri-In computing and the Internet:...
, and the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées
Théâtre des Champs-Élysées
The Théâtre des Champs-Élysées is a theatre at 15 avenue Montaigne. Despite its name, the theatre is not on the Champs-Élysées but nearby in another part of the 8th arrondissement of Paris....
(at the latter, he performed once more as Papageno in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte), Guglielmo (from Così fan tutte
Così fan tutte
Così fan tutte, ossia La scuola degli amanti K. 588, is an opera buffa by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart first performed in 1790. The libretto was written by Lorenzo Da Ponte....
) for the Netherlands Opera, the Glyndebourne
Glyndebourne
Glyndebourne is a country house, thought to be about six hundred years old, located near Lewes in East Sussex, England. It is also the site of an opera house which, with the exception of its closing during the Second World War, for a few immediate post-war years, and in 1993 during the...
, and the Salzburg Mozart Week, Alidoro (from La Cenerentola
La Cenerentola
La Cenerentola, ossia La bontà in trionfo is an operatic dramma giocoso in two acts by Gioachino Rossini. The libretto was written by Jacopo Ferretti, based on the fairy tale Cinderella...
) in Santiago, Chile, Tiridate en Handel's Radamisto and Fígaro at the Santa Fe Opera
Santa Fe Opera
The Santa Fe Opera is an American opera company, located north of Santa Fe in the U.S. state of New Mexico, headquartered on a former guest ranch of .-General history:...
and the Houston Opera and Achilla in Händel
HANDEL
HANDEL was the code-name for the UK's National Attack Warning System in the Cold War. It consisted of a small console consisting of two microphones, lights and gauges. The reason behind this was to provide a back-up if anything failed....
’s Giulio Cesare
Giulio Cesare
Giulio Cesare in Egitto , commonly known simply as Giulio Cesare, is an Italian opera in three acts written for the Royal Academy of Music by George Frideric Handel in 1724...
for Opera Colorado
Opera Colorado
Opera Colorado is an opera company located in Denver, Colorado. Founded in 1981, it presents an annual season of three to four fully staged productions...
.
In concert
In concert performances, Pisaroni has sung Zebul in HändelHANDEL
HANDEL was the code-name for the UK's National Attack Warning System in the Cold War. It consisted of a small console consisting of two microphones, lights and gauges. The reason behind this was to provide a back-up if anything failed....
’s Jephtha
Jephtha
Jephthah is a character in the Old Testament's Book of Judges, serving as a judge over Israel for a period of six years . He lived in Gilead and was a member of the Tribe of Manasseh. His father's name was also Gilead...
with the Berlin Philharmonic, conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Nikolaus Harnoncourt is an Austrian conductor, particularly known for his historically informed performances of music from the Classical era and earlier. Starting out as a classical cellist, he founded his own period instrument ensemble in the 1950s, and became a pioneer of the Early Music movement...
.
Also, he has performed Michael Haydn
Michael Haydn
Johann Michael Haydn was an Austrian composer of the classical period, the younger brother of Joseph Haydn.-Life:...
’s Requiem in C minor under Ivor Bolton, and Mozart’s Mass in C Minor under Marc Minkowski
Marc Minkowski
Marc Minkowski is a French conductor of classical music, especially known for his interpretations of French Baroque works. His mother is American, and his father was Alexandre Minkowski, a Polish-French professor of pediatrics and one of the founders of neonatology...
, both at the Salzburg Festival.
Furthermore, Pisaroni also has Niccolò Piccinni
Niccolò Piccinni
Niccolò Piccinni was an Italian composer of symphonies, sacred music, chamber music, and opera. Although he is somewhat obscure, even to music lovers today, Piccinni was one of the most popular composers of opera—particularly the Neapolitan opera buffa—of his day...
's Iphigénie en Tauride
Iphigénie en Tauride (Piccinni)
Iphigénie en Tauride is a tragédie lyrique in four acts by Niccolò Piccinni, which was first performed at the Académie royale de musique on January 23, 1781...
with the Orchestre National de France, Mozart’s Coronation Mass
Coronation Mass
A Coronation Mass is a special kind of Mass, in which a rite of Coronation is celebrated.In the liturgical tradition of the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Churches in communion with it, as well as in the tradition of the Eastern Orthodox Church, rites of Coronation take place within the...
at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées
Théâtre des Champs-Élysées
The Théâtre des Champs-Élysées is a theatre at 15 avenue Montaigne. Despite its name, the theatre is not on the Champs-Élysées but nearby in another part of the 8th arrondissement of Paris....
, and Vivaldi’s Orlando Furioso in Toulouse
Toulouse
Toulouse is a city in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern FranceIt lies on the banks of the River Garonne, 590 km away from Paris and half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea...
and Brussels
Brussels
Brussels , officially the Brussels Region or Brussels-Capital Region , is the capital of Belgium and the de facto capital of the European Union...
under his belt, the last two with Jean-Christophe Spinosi.
Discography
- Cavalli - Ercole Amante - Bolton, Netherlands Opera, Amsterdam (DVD)
- Haydn - Requiem - Bolton
- Handel - La Resurrezione - Haim
- Martin y Soler - Il burbero di buon cuore - Rousset (DVD)
- Mozart - Cosi fan tutte - Fischer - Glyndebourne (DVD)
- Mozart: Cosi Fan Tutte - Metzmacher, Netherlands Opera (DVD)
- Mozart - Don Giovanni - Harding - Salzburg (DVD) (Masseto)
- Mozart - Don Giovanni - Jurowski - Glyndebourne (DVD) (Leporello)
- Mozart - Le nozze di Fígaro - Jacobs - París (DVD)
- Mozart: Le Nozze Di Figaro - Metzmacher - Amsterdam (DVD)
- Mozart - La clemenza di Tito - Harnoncourt - Salzburg (DVD)
- Mozart - Mass in c minor - Langrée
- Rossini - La cenerentola - Zedda