Gianluca Buratto Bass

Gianluca Buratto studied at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatoire in Milan, and attended numerous master classes with Sara Mingardo, Ernesto Palacio, Jaume Aragall and Dalton Baldwin. In 2006, he won the First Prize in the Ferruccio Tagliavini Competition and was invited to sing Verdi’s Requiem at the Bregenz Festival.

He made his operatic debut in 2009 in Solbiati’s Il carro e i canti at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste, and has since been performing on the greatest international operatic stages. Recent engagements include L’Orfeo in Nancy and Paris, Rinaldo at Theater an der Wien, Admeto in Krakow and Vienna, Beethoven’s Missa solemnis in Cagliari, Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria at the Zurich Opernhaus, at the Baths of Caracalla in Rome, at the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam, and in Palermo, I Puritani at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Rigoletto at the Festival Internacional de musica de Bogotà and at the Macerata Opera Festival, Le Duc d'Albe in London, The Magic Flute in Liege, Guglielmo Ratcliff at the Wexford Festival, Turandot in Montpellier. Gianluca Buratto has been selected for the 2017 Monteverdi project with John Eliot Gardiner and takes part in the worldwide tour of the Monteverdi’s Trilogy.

More recently, he appeared as Leone in Attila and Ferrando (Il Trovatore) at Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Sparafucile in Rigoletto in Berlin, Turin, Lyon, Verona and Milan, he toured as Cadmus / Somnus in Sémélé with the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra, Claudio in Agrippina at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich and the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Haly in Les Indes galantes in Geneva, Fiesco in Simon Boccanegra in Copenhagen.

He also appeared in La Bohème in London, L’incoronazione di Poppea in Budapest, Le Nozze di Figaro in London, Rossini’s Stabat Mater in Saint-Denis, Il Trovatore in Barcelona, I Puritani (concert version) at Teatro di San Carlo in Naples and Verdi’s Requiem in Turin.

Paris Opera debut