ARTIST AVATAR
Bass-Baritone
Luca Pisaroni
Italy

About

Biography

Previously for HGO, Luca Pisaroni performed as Enzo/Young Da Ponte in the world premiere of The Phoenix(2019), Mephistopheles in Faust (2016), and Count Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro (2011). In the 2023-24 season, he makes his house and role debut with Los Angeles Opera as Don Basilio in The Barber of Seville and returns to Opéra National de Paris to sing Achilla in Guilio Cesare. Since his debut with the Vienna Philharmonic at the Salzburg Festival, led by Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Pisaroni has continued to bring his compelling artistry to the world’s leading opera houses and concert halls. He has starred in signature roles from Mozart’s Da Ponte operas on stages worldwide, including the Metropolitan Opera, Glyndebourne, Teatro alla Scala, San Francisco Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, among others. His roles include Golaud in Pelleas et Melisande at Berlin State Opera; Mephistopheles in Faust at the Teatro Real; Enrico VIII in Anna Bolena at Zürich Opera House; Maometto in Maometto II at Canadian Opera Company; Conte Rodolfo in La Sonnambula at Vienna State Opera; Giorgio in I Puritani at the Met; Mephistopheles in La Damnation de Faust with the Pittsburgh Symphony; Pizarro in Fidelio at Teatro alla Scala; and Mahomet II in Le Siège de Corinthe at Rossini Opera Festival. Recent engagements include his debut as Don Rodrigue in the world premiere of Marc-André Dalbavie’s Le Soulier de satin with Opéra national de Paris, the Four Villains in The Tales of Hoffmann at the Vienna State Opera, and Leporello at the Gran Teatre del Liceu.

repertoire

Count Almaviva: THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO 2010-11

Méphistophélès: FAUST 2016-17 

Enzo\Young Da Ponte: THE PHOENIX 2018-19 (World premiere)