Luca Casagrande

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Luca Casagrande is an Italian baritone singer.

Casagrande studied singing with Alberto Soresina in Milan . He made his debut in 1989 as an oratorio singer in Georg Friedrich Handel's Messiah , Johann Sebastian Bach's St. John Passion and his cantata Christ our Lord came to the Jordan . In the 1990s he took part in other performances of Kantanten Bach and Handel as well as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's fairs in Leipzig, Berlin and Salzburg, among others. In 2005 he appeared in Handel's Theodora , in 2008 in his Belshazzar and the settings of the Stabat mater by Antonio Caldara and Gioachino Rossini .

Casagranda made his first appearance on the opera stage at the Teatro Smeraldo in Milan with the Orchestra dei Pomeriggi Musicali under the direction of Giuseppe Grazioli in Leonard Bernstein's Mass . In Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden, Spain, France and the USA he appeared as an interpreter of Italian baroque operas. From the mid-1990s he was also known as a singer of Mozart operas ( Le nozze di Figaro - Conte d'Almaviva, La finta giardiniera - Ramiro, Don Giovanni - title role, Così fan tutte - Guglielmo, Die Zauberflöte - Papageno).

He also worked on an opera repertoire from the 19th and 20th centuries, including the title roles in Giuseppe Verdi's Macbeth and Simon Boccanegra , the Orest in Elektra , the Faninal in Der Rosenkavalier and Mandryka in Arabella by Richard Strauss , and Wolfram von Eschenbach in Tannhäuser , the curve in Tristan and Isolde and the Wotan in Das Rheingold and Die Walküre by Richard Wagner , the Hans in Der Traumgörge by Alexander von Zemlinsky , the Moruccio in Tiefland by Eugen d'Albert , the Duke of Albany in Lear by Aribert Reimann and the title role in Colonel Chabert by Hermann Wolfgang von Waltershausen . In the 2014/15 season he made his debut in Béla Bartók's Duke Bluebeard's Castle in Los Angeles, Rossini's La donna del lago in New York and Hector Berlioz ' Roméo et Juliette and Sergei Prokofiev's Die Liebe zu den Drei Orangen in Berlin.

Since 1994 Casagrande has recorded more than 30 CDs on the Centaurus Music label , including cantatas and operas by composers from the 16th century to the early classical period (including by Alessandro Scarlatti , Agostino Steffani , Giovanni L Limiti , Antonio Cesti , Benedetto Marcello , Giovanni Battista Bassani , Alessandro Stradella , Giovanni Maria Bononcini , Nicola Antonio Porpora , Georg Philipp Telemann , Giovanni Battista Martini , Joseph Haydn and Giovanni Battista Cirri and songs by Hector Berlioz , Claude Debussy , Albert Roussel , Franz Schubert , Gustav Mahler , Camille Saint-Saëns , Jules Massenet , Maurice Ravel , Robert Schumann and Richard Wagner ).

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SURNAME Casagrande, Luca
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian singer
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century