Luca Pisaroni

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Luca Pisaroni (born June 8, 1975 in Ciudad Bolívar , Venezuela ) is an Italian opera singer ( bass-baritone ) who sings at major opera houses and is known for his Mozart interpretations. He lives in Vienna .

Life

When Pisaroni was four years old, his family moved from Venezuela to the northern Italian town of Busseto , where Giuseppe Verdi once lived and worked. His father owned a car repair shop and his mother worked as a teacher. The singer says about his second hometown, in it "you can feel the Verdi spirit in every nook and cranny". Hence his passion for opera. He went to the opera regularly with his grandfather and already knew at the age of 11 that he wanted to be an opera singer. After school, he often went to Carlo Bergonzi's music academy in the afternoons , where he was allowed to listen to his masterclasses . “Technically, I didn't study with Bergonzi, I was too young. But I watch his class almost every afternoon and I learned a lot about diction, phrasing and how to use your voice to communicate with the audience. ”This is why Pisaroni sees the Italian tenor as his first teacher.

Training and debut

After studying at the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Milan, where he did not feel well, he moved to Bueños Aires for a year, where he took lessons from Renato Sassola and Rozita Zozulya , and finally to New York. His debut took place in 2001 at the Klagenfurt City Theater , in the title role of Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro . In the same year he received the Eberhard Waechter Medal . It quickly became clear that Mozart is the main focus of the singer's artistic output, but his repertoire stretches back to the world of baroque operas and goes back to Gioachino Rossini (and in some cases to Giacomo Puccini ).

Salzburg Festival

Already in the summer of 2002 he made his debut at the Salzburg Festival , as Masetto in Don Giovanni with Nikolaus Harnoncourt on the podium, and in two concert performances as Douglas d'Angus in Rossini's La donna del lago . This was to be both his breakthrough and the beginning of a long-term collaboration with the Salzburg Festival. Pisaroni sang Masetto again in Salzburg in 2003 and, for the first time, Publio in La clemenza di Tito , both roles in productions by Martin Kušej , Herold and Hercule in Lullys Alceste in 2005, Masetto and Publio again in 2006. In 2007 and 2009 he was the Figaro of the Festival, 2013 the Guglielmo in Così fan tutte , 2014 the Leporello in Don Giovanni , 2015 the Count in Le nozze di Figaro .

Mozart

Today Pisaroni is a Mozart singer in demand all over the world: He also sang Publio at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence and at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. At the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées he appeared again as Papageno in The Magic Flute .

He embodied the Leporello at the Teatro Real in Madrid, at the Opéra Bastille in Paris, at the Glyndebourne Festival , in Tanglewood under James Levine and in the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden under Yannick Nézet-Séguin , as well as at the Met and in Salzburg. He has already sung his star role - Figaro - in more than 150 performances. It took the singer from Klagenfurt to the Santa Fe Opera and the San Francisco Opera , to Paris and the Met, and for the first time to the Vienna State Opera . In 2011 he made his debut at the Houston Grand Opera as Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro , as an opponent in the title role. Since then he has been singing both roles alternately - Figaro at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London and in the Sultanate of Oman , Count Almaviva in Paris, Madrid, Vienna and soon in San Francisco. In Mozart's third Da Ponte opera - Così fan tutte - he took over the Guglielmo at De Nederlandse Opera in 2006 in a production by Jossi Wieler and at the Glyndebourne Festival in a production by Nicholas Hytner , and finally in 2013 in Salzburg in a production by Sven -Eric Bechtolf .

Pisaroni's Mozart repertoire also includes Nardo and Cassandro in the early works La finta giardiniera and La finta semplice .

Baroque

For many years, baroque operas were the second focus of Pisaroni's repertoire. He sang in a number of Handel operas, such as Tiridate in Radamisto at the Houston Grand Opera, Achilla in Giulio Cesare at the Opera Colorado , and Melisso in Alcina at the Opéra Bastille in Paris, Claudio in Agrippina , Zoroastro in Orlando , Argante in Rinaldo , Garibaldo in Rodelinda and finally in 2008 the Re in Ariodante at the Theater an der Wien . At this house he also succeeded in 2011 as Pollux in Jean-Philippe Rameau's Castor et Pollux , at the Met he embodied the Caliban in the baroque pasticcio The Enchanted Island . At De Nederlandse Opera he finally appeared in 2012 in Francesco Cavalli's Ercole amante .

This period seems to be over, as the singer thinks that he has enjoyed this period, but in baroque music it is “always about singing light and high. There are too few long notes to hold. If you concentrate too much on this repertoire, the big legato slurs in the 19th century cause problems. "

Belcanto to Puccini

Pisaroni rarely appears in bel canto and verismo roles. In Santiago de Chile and at the Met he performed Alidoro in Rossini's Cenerentola , and at the Zurich Opera House and at the Vienna State Opera he sang Enrico VIII in Donizetti's Anna Bolena . Pisaroni describes the title role in Rossini's Maometto II at the Santa Fe Opera in 2012 as the best production he has ever been involved in .

In spring 2013 he sang Paolo Albiani in Verdi's Simone Boccanegra at the Konzerthaus in Vienna , alongside his father-in-law Thomas Hampson , who took on the title role. From Puccini he has only played Colline in La Bohème .

In the concert hall

Salzburg was also decisive for the artist's concert career : he made his debut at the Whitsun Festival in 2002 in Haydn's Nelson Mass and sang the bass solos in Johann Michael Haydn's Requiem (in a Mozart matinee at the 2004 Summer Festival), in Mozart's C minor Mass (2005) and in Johann Adolph Hasse's oratorio I pellegrini al sepolcro di Nostro Signore (at the Whitsun Festival 2008). It was conducted by Sigiswald Kuijken , Ivor Bolton , Marc Minkowski and Riccardo Muti .

With the Berliner Philharmoniker under Nikolaus Harnoncourt , Pisaroni could be heard as Zebul in Handel's Jephtha . He sang in Niccolò Piccinnis Iphigénie en Tauride (with the Orchester National de France ), in Mozart's Coronation Mass (in the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées ) and in Vivaldi's Orlando furioso (in Toulouse and Brussels ), the latter with Jean-Christophe Spinosi at the podium.

Pisaroni also devotes himself to song singing , especially the work of Franz Schubert , to whom he feels particularly attached because of his place of residence. In his recitals he also interprets Beethoven , Reichardt , Brahms and Liszt .

“We Italians don't have a rich song tradition, our songs cannot be compared qualitatively with the German ones. Schubert, Schumann, and Mahler were always very close to me. But you can imagine how scared an Italian is when he approaches this delicate repertoire! "

- Luca Pisaroni : Leporello is one of the best operatic roles

Pisaroni has given recitals in Amsterdam, Hamburg, London's Carnegie Hall , Vancouver, Washington and Vienna, among others .

Personal

During the Don Giovanni performances in Salzburg in 2002, he met Cate Hampson , the daughter of Thomas Hampson , the title hero of this production. The two eventually married and Pisaroni moved to Vienna to live with his wife. The singer has two dogs - Lenny and Tristan - whose travel lives are documented in detail in the Dogs on the Road section of his website.

Discography (selection)

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Picard, Anna. "People: 418. Luca Pisaroni", Opera , January 2014, vol. 65, no. 1, pp. 6-13.
  2. ↑ Full biography on imgartists.com , accessed July 24, 2014.
  3. ↑ Salzburg Festival 2007 , accessed on July 24, 2014.
  4. ↑ Kai Luehrs-Kaiser: << Better not >> , interview with Luca Pisaroni. Opernwelt , August 2013, 38–41
  5. ↑ La Cenerentola on metoperafamily.org , accessed on October 7, 2014
  6. ↑ Pisaroni: "Leporello is one of the best operatic roles" , Die Presse , July 23, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Pisaroni, Luca
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian opera singer (bass baritone)
DATE OF BIRTH June 8th 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Ciudad Bolívar , Venezuela