Michele Pertusi
Michele Pertusi (born January 12, 1965 in Parma ) is an Italian opera and concert singer with a bass voice .
Life
education
Pertusi studied at the Conservatorio Arrigo Boito in Parma with Mauro Uberti and obtained his diploma in singing and piano. He also took lessons from Arrigo Pola , Carlo Bergonzi and Rodolfo Celletti .
Career
In 1984, at the age of 19, Pertusi made his debut in Pisa as Count of Monterone in Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi under the direction of Bruno Bartoletti and as Don Ruy Gómez de Silva in Verdi's Ernani in Modena . At a young age he worked with leading conductors such as Daniel Barenboim , Semyon Bychkov , Riccardo Chailly , Myung-Whun Chung , Sir Colin Davis , Daniele Gatti , Carlo Maria Giulini , Wladimir Michailowitsch Jurowski , James Levine , Zubin Mehta , Sir Antonio Pappano , Riccardo Muti and Georg Solti worked together and had debuts at renowned opera houses such as the Teatro Regio in Turin , the Royal Opera House in London , the Vienna State Opera , the Opéra Bastille in Paris , the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona , the Teatro Real de Madrid , the Bavarian State Opera in Munich , the Deutsche Oper Berlin , the Brussels Opera House La Monnaie / De Munt , the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome and the Metropolitan Opera in New York City .
Since 1998 he has sang regularly at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan , where he appeared in numerous productions, including in Le nozze di Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (as Conte d'Almaviva), in Mozart's Don Giovanni (in the title role), Nina, o sia la pazza per amore by Giovanni Paisiello (as Il conte) conducted by Riccardo Muti, Il turco in Italia by Gioachino Rossini (as Selim) and Rossini's La gazza ladra (as Gottardo) conducted by Riccardo Chailly and Verdi's Don Carlos ( as Filippo II) under the direction of Myung-Whun Chung.
In Italy, Michele Pertusi appeared regularly at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro , where he sang several leading roles on this stage, including in 1997 Mose in Moïse et Pharaon by Gioachino Rossini, conducted by Vladimir Michailowitsch Jurowski. He was awarded the “Rossini d'Oro” prize by the festival for his achievements. He was also regularly heard at the Festival di Torrechiara , where he performed in 1996, 1997, 1998, 2001 and 2003.
In 1995 Pertusi was awarded the Premio Franco Abbiati of the Italian music criticism. In February 2005 he received a Grammy Award for best opera recording in the title role of Verdi's Falstaff , which he recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra under Sir Colin Davis. His recording of Il turco in Italia under the direction of Riccardo Chailly for Decca received a Gramophone Award from the British music magazine Gramophone . He was also awarded a Medaglie ai Benemeriti della cultura e dell'arte (Benmeritus Gold Medal) by the President of the Italian Republic .
In the 2013/2014 opera season, Pertusi appeared on the following stages, among others: at the Salzburg Festival (as Oroveso in Norma by Vincenzo Bellini ), the Opéra Royal de Wallonie (as Attila in the opera of the same name by Giuseppe Verdi), and the Teatro Regio di Torino (as Jacopo Fiesco in Verdi's Simon Boccanegra ), the Opéra National de Paris (as Sir Giorgio in Vincenzo Bellini's I puritani ), the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona (as Il conte Rodolfo in Bellini's La sonnambula ), the Metropolitan Opera ( as Il conte Rodolfo in La sonnambula and as Sir Giorgio in I puritani ) and the Milan Scala (as Don Alfonso in Mozart's Così fan tutte ).
In the 2014/2015 opera season he was Padre Guardiano in Verdi's La forza del destino (at the Teatro Regio di Parma ), Assur in Semiramide by Gioachino Rossini (at the Opéra de Lyon and the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris ), the Alidoro in Rossini's La Cenerentola (at the Vienna State Opera ), Giorgio Talbot in Maria Stuarda by Gaetano Donizetti (at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona ), the Don Pasquale in Donizetti's opera of the same name (at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía in Valencia and the Vienna State Opera) and again the Oroveso at the Salzburg Festival.
During the 2015/2016 opera season he played in L'elisir d'amore at La Scala in Milan, in Rigoletto , Don Pasquale and La Cenerentola at the Vienna State Opera, in Zelmira at the Opéra de Lyon , and in Maria Stuarda at the Opera d'Avignon , in Simon Boccanegra at the Hong Kong Arts Festival , I puritani at the Zurich Opera House and Norma at the Savonlinna Opera Festival . He was also heard in the following vocal works this season: Stabat Mater by Rossini in Turin , Bergamo and Paris, Messa da Requiem by Verdi in Milan and Paris, 9th Symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna and Mass No. 6 E flat major by Franz Schubert at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples .
Pertusi opened the 2016/2017 opera season at the Festival Verdi 2016 in the Teatro Regio di Parma in the role of Philip II in Verdi's Don Carlos . He later sang Giuseppe Verdi's Messa da Requiem with the London Symphony Orchestra in London and Barcelona, Bellinis Norma at the Teatro Real de Madrid , Rossini's La Cenerentola and Donizetti's Don Pasquale at the Vienna State Opera, Bellinis I puritani at the Zurich Opera, Verdis Ernani at the Théâtre du Capitole , Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore at the State Sacharia Paliaschwili Theater for Opera and Ballet in Tbilisi and Verdi's Don Carlos and Rossini's La gazza ladra at La Scala in Milan.
Michele Pertusi can be heard on records at the music labels Deutsche Grammophon , Philips, Erato, Sony, Decca, Mondo Musicale and Ricordi. He recorded his recording of Selim in Il turco in Italia by Gioachino Rossini with the conductor Riccardo Chailly, with whom he was already successful in the same work at La Scala in Milan. In another leading role, the title role in Rossini's Moïse et Pharaon , he can be heard on a CD from a live performance, as well as in the title role in Rossini's Maometto II , which comes from the stage in Pesaro. Further recordings are: Gioachino Rossini's Petite Messe solennelle , Stabat Mater , Cantata in onore del Sommo Pontefice Pio Nono and La Cenerentola conducted by Riccardo Chailly, Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart conducted by Georg Solti, Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro under Zubin Mehta, Rossini's Semiramide and Mozart's Don Giovanni conducted by Daniel Barenboim, La damnation de Faust by Hector Berlioz and Verdi's Falstaff conducted by Colin Davis.
In 2012 he appeared on television in the role of Mustafà in L'Italiana in Algeri by Gioachino Rossini, conducted by Paolo Olmi at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna and broadcast on Rai 3 in 2013 and Rai 5 in 2014 and 2016 .
Theater (selection)
In Italy
- Teatro Lirico in Cagliari
- Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania
- Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa
- Teatro alla Scala in Milan
- Teatro San Carlo in Naples
- Teatro Massimo in Palermo
- Teatro Regio in Parma
- Teatro Municipale in Piacenza
- Teatro dell'Opera in Rome
- Teatro Regio in Turin
- Teatro La Fenice in Venice
- Teatro Filarmonico in Verona
- Teatro Comunale in Bologna
Outside Italy
- Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona
- State Opera Unter den Linden in Berlin
- La Monnaie / De Munt in Brussels
- Royal Opera House in London
- Teatro Real in Madrid
- National Theater Munich
- Metropolitan Opera in New York City
- Opéra Bastille in Paris
- Vienna State Opera
Repertoire (selection)
Opera
| composer | Opera | role |
|---|---|---|
| Vincenzo Bellini | La sonnambula | Count Rodolfo |
| Vincenzo Bellini | Norma | Oroveso |
| Vincenzo Bellini | I puritani | Sir Giorgio |
| Hector Berlioz | La damnation de Faust | Méphistophélès |
| Georges Bizet | Carmen | Escamillo |
| Francesco Cavalli | La Calisto | Giove |
| Gaetano Donizetti | Anna Bolena | Enrico VIII |
| Gaetano Donizetti | L'elisir d'amore | Dulcamara |
| Gaetano Donizetti | Lucrezia Borgia | Don Alfonso d'Este |
| Gaetano Donizetti | Lucia di Lammermoor | Raimondo Bidebent |
| Gaetano Donizetti | Marin Faliero | Marin Faliero |
| Gaetano Donizetti | Don Pasquale | Don Pasquale |
| Charles Gounod | fist | Méphistophélès |
| Jules Massenet | Esclarmonde | Phorcas |
| Jules Massenet | Thaïs | Athanael |
| Jules Massenet | Don Quixote | Don Quixote |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Le nozze di Figaro | Count Almaviva |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Le nozze di Figaro | Figaro |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Don Giovanni | Don Giovanni |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Don Giovanni | Leporello |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Don Giovanni | Masetto |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | So fan tutte | Don Alfonso |
| Jacques Offenbach | Hoffmann's stories | Coppélius |
| Jacques Offenbach | Hoffmann's stories | Dappertutto |
| Jacques Offenbach | Hoffmann's stories | Lindorf |
| Jacques Offenbach | Hoffmann's stories | Miracle |
| Giovanni Paisiello | Nina | Il Conte |
| Giovanni Battista Pergolesi | Li prodigi della divina grazia nella conversione e morte di S. Guglielmo duca d'Aquitania | Il demonio |
| Gioachino Rossini | La pietra del paragone | Conte Asdrubale |
| Gioachino Rossini | Il signor Bruschino | Filiberto |
| Gioachino Rossini | L'Italiana in Algeri | Mustafà |
| Gioachino Rossini | Il Turco in Italia | Selim |
| Gioachino Rossini | Torvaldo e Dorliska | Duca d'Ordow |
| Gioachino Rossini | Il barbiere di Siviglia | Fiorello |
| Gioachino Rossini | La Cenerentola | Alidoro |
| Gioachino Rossini | La gazza ladra | Podestà Gottardo |
| Gioachino Rossini | Mosè in Egitto | Faraone |
| Gioachino Rossini | Maometto II | Maometto secondo |
| Gioachino Rossini | Zelmira | Polidoro |
| Gioachino Rossini | Semiramide | Assyria |
| Gioachino Rossini | Il viaggio a Reims | Lord Sidney |
| Gioachino Rossini | La siege de Corinthe | Mahomet II |
| Gioachino Rossini | Moïse et Pharaon | Moïse |
| Gioachino Rossini | Le Comte Ory | Le governor |
| Gioachino Rossini | Guillaume Tell | Guillaume Tell |
| Marco Tutino | Vita | John Donne |
| Giuseppe Verdi | Oberto conte di San Bonifacio | Oberto |
| Giuseppe Verdi | Nabucco | Zaccaria |
| Giuseppe Verdi | I Lombardi alla prima crociata | Pagano |
| Giuseppe Verdi | Ernani | Don Ruy Gomez de Silva |
| Giuseppe Verdi | Attila | Attila |
| Giuseppe Verdi | Jerusalem | Roger |
| Giuseppe Verdi | Luisa Miller | Conte di Walter |
| Giuseppe Verdi | Rigoletto | Sparafucile |
| Giuseppe Verdi | Simon Boccanegra | Jacopo Fiesco |
| Giuseppe Verdi | La forza del destino | Padre Guardiano |
| Giuseppe Verdi | Don Carlos | Filippo II |
| Giuseppe Verdi | Falstaff | Sir John Falstaff |
Vocal works
| composer | plant |
|---|---|
| Ludwig van Beethoven | 9th symphony |
| Gioachino Rossini | Stabat Mater |
| Franz Schubert | Mass No. 6 in E flat major |
| Giuseppe Verdi | Messa da Requiem |
Awards
- 1993/94: Awarded the Italian Critics' Prize Premio Abbiati
- 2005: Grammy Award for Giuseppe Verdi's Falstaff conducted by Colin Davis
- Awarded the Rossini d'oro
- Winner of the Gramophone Award for Il turco in Italia by Gioachino Rossini
- 2018: Premio del Belcanto Rodolfo Celletti, Festival della Valle d'Itria
Discography (selection)
- Il Turco in Italia by Gioachino Rossini (conducted by Riccardo Chailly with Cecilia Bartoli , Alessandro Corbelli , Ramón Vargas at the Teatro alla Scala), for Decca (1997)
- Norma by Vincenzo Bellini (conducted by Giovanni Antonini with Cecilia Bartoli, John Osborn, Sumi Jo and the Orchestra La Scintilla), for Decca (2013)
- Stabat Mater by Gioachino Rossini (conducted by Riccardo Chailly with Barbara Frittoli and Sonia Ganassi), Decca (1998)
- La Damnation de Faust by Hector Berlioz (conducted by Colin Davis with the London Symphony Orchestra), LSO Live (2001)
- Thaïs by Jules Massenet (conducted by Marcello Viotti with Eva Mei and William Joyner at the Teatro La Fenice ), Dynamic (2003)
- Così fan tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (conducted by Georg Solti with Renée Fleming , Anne Sofie von Otter and Olaf Bär ), Decca (1994)
- Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (conducted by Georg Solti with Bryn Terfel , Renée Fleming and Ann Murray), Decca (1996)
- Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (conducted by Daniel Barenboim with the Berliner Philharmoniker , Ferruccio Furlanetto , Joan Rodgers, John Tomlinson , Lella Cuberli , Matti Salminen , RIAS Kammerchor, Uwe Heilmann and Waltraud Meier ), Erato (1992)
- Le nozze di Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (conducted by Zubin Mehta with Lucio Gallo, Karita Mattila , Maggio Musicale Fiorentino ), Sony (1994)
- La Cenerentola by Gioachino Rossini (conducted by Riccardo Chailly with Cecilia Bartoli, William Matteuzzi, Enzo Dara , Alessandro Corbelli), Decca (1993)
- Maometto II by Gioachino Rossini (Ricordi)
- Semiramide by Gioachino Rossini (Ricordi)
- Torvaldo e Dorliska by Gioachino Rossini (conducted by Victor Pablo Perez with Marina Takova, Francesco Meli , Bruno Praticò and the Orchestra Haydn), Dynamic (2007)
- Ernani by Giuseppe Verdi (conducted by Giuliano Carella with Vincenzo La Scola, Paolo Coni, Daniela Dess and the Orchestra Internazionale d'Italia), Nuova Era (1991)
- Falstaff by Giuseppe Verdi (conducted by Colin Davis with the London Symphony Orchestra, Marina Domashenko and Carlos Alvarez), LSO Live (2004)
- Petite messe solennelle by Gioachino Rossini (conducted by Riccardo Chailly with Daniela Dessì e Giuseppe Sabbatini), Decca (1993)
Filmography (selection)
- Sonnambula by Vincenzo Bellini with Pidò / Flórez / Dessay / Pertusi at the Metropolitan Opera, Decca (2009)
- Carmen by Georges Bizet with Welser-Most / Kasarova / Kaufmann conducted by Mathias Hartmann at the Zurich Opera House , Decca (2008)
- Thaïs by Jules Massenet with Marcello Viotti, Eva Mei, William Joyner, Elodie Méchain, Christophe Fel, conducted by Pier Luigi Pizzi, 2004 at the Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Dynamic
- Le Comte Ory by Gioachino Rossini with Maurizio Benini / Juan Diego Flórez / Diana Damrau / Joyce DiDonato , conducted by Gary Halvorson, MetOpera (2011)
- Cenerentola by Gioachino Rossini with Campanella / Bartoli / Dara, conducted by Roberto De Simone at the Houston Grand Opera , Decca (1995)
- Torvaldo e Dorliska by Gioachino Rossini with Victor Pablo Perez / Marina Takova, Francesco Meli , Bruno Praticò, conducted by Mario Martone from the Rossini Opera Festival 2006, Dynamic
Web links
- Michele Pertusi at operalibera.net
- Michele Pertusi at operabase.com
- Michele Pertusi in an interview with deropernfreund.de
- Michele Pertusi at discogs.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michele Pertusi. at opera-online.com, accessed on February 24, 2018 .
- ↑ a b c d e f g Michele Pertusi - Bass at melosopera.com. (PDF) Retrieved February 24, 2018 .
- ↑ a b c d e f Michele Pertusi (bass-baritone) with Bach Cantatas (English)
- ↑ William Fratti: Intervista a Michele Pertusi. In: Operalibera. March 4, 2010, accessed February 24, 2018 (Italian).
- ↑ a b c d Michele Pertusi, bass at operabase.com. Retrieved February 25, 2018 .
- ↑ a b Michele Pertusi basso at communalbologna.it. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on February 24, 2018 (Italian). ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Artist Michele Pertusi at grammy.com. Retrieved February 25, 2018 .
- ↑ a b Intervista a Michele Pertusi. Retrieved February 24, 2018 (Italian).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pertusi, Michele |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian opera and concert singer with a bass voice |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 12, 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Parma |