Luca Pisaroni Bass baritone

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Biography

Luca Pisaroni was born in Venezuela and grew up in Italy. Since making his debut in Don Giovanni (Masetto) at the 2002 Salzburg Festival, he has been performing on the leading international opera venues. He has sung the roles of Figaro and the Count (Le Nozze di Figaro) at New York Metropolitan Opera, Salzburg Festival, Vienna Staatsoper, Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich; Leporello (Don Giovanni) at the Teatro Real in Madrid, Metropolitan Opera, Glyndebourne Festival and Teatro alla Scala, Milan; Achilla (Giulio Cesare) at La Monnaie in Brussels; Argante (Ariodante) at the Lyric Opera in Chicago; the title role in Maometto II in Toronto; Count Rodolfo (La sonnambula) and Mustafa (L’Italiana in Algeri) at the Vienna Staatsoper; and Pizarro (Fidelio) at Teatro alla Scala. He made role debuts singing the four diabolical characters in the Contes d’Hoffmann at the Baden-Baden Festival in 2018, the title role in Don Giovanni at the Metropolitan Opera and Escamillo in Carmen the following year in London.

During the 2019/20 season, he sang in Les Contes d’Hoffmann in Vienna, Le Nozze di Figaro and Cosi fan tutte in New York, Don Giovanni (title role) in Zurich and Munich. In 2021/22, he portrayed the King of Scotland (Ariodante) in Moscow, the four diabolical characters in Hamburg, Henri VIII (Anna Bolena) in Zurich, Guglielmo (Così fan tutte) in Salzburg, Leporello in Hamburg and San Francisco, Dulcamara (L'Elisir d'amore) in Seattle. Luca Pisaroni also performs in concert (Mozart's Requiem, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony). Engagements for the 2023/24 season include the roles of Don Basilio (The Barber of Seville) in Los Angeles and the title role in Don Giovanni in Houston.

At the Paris Opera: Pulcinella (bass), 2002; La Bohème (Colline), 2003; Alcina (Melisso), 2004; Don Giovanni (Leporello), 2006, 2007; Le Nozze di Figaro (Figaro), 2008, 2010, 2022; Les Nozze di Figaro (Almaviva) 2012; Pelléas et Mélisande (Golaud), 2017; Le Soulier de satin (Don Rodrigue de Manacor), 2021; La Cenerentola (Alidoro), 2022 

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