Biography

This season bass-baritone Luca Pisaroni makes his house and role debut with Los Angeles Opera as Don Basilio in Il barbiere di Siviglia, returns to Opéra National de Paris to sing Achilla in Guilio Cesare, and sings the title role in Don Giovanni with Houston Grand Opera. In concert, he sings Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra.

Mr. Pisaroni’s opera repertoire includes Golaud in Pelléas and Mélisande at the Paris Opera; Méphistophélès in Faust at Houston Grand Opera; Conte Rodolfo in La Sonnambula and Mustafà in L’italiana in Algeri at Vienna State Opera; Giorgio in I Puritani and Caliban in The Enchanted Island at the Metropolitan Opera; Pizarro in Fidelio at La Scala; Le nozze di Figaro at Paris Opera, San Francisco Opera, and Bavarian State Opera; Leporello in Don Giovanni at La Scala, the Metropolitan Opera, Salzburg Festival, and Tanglewood with the Boston Symphony; Guglielmo in Così fan tutte at Glyndebourne and the Salzburg Festival; and Tiridate in Handel’s Radamisto at Santa Fe Opera.

Recent releases include Berlioz’s Roméo et Juliette with the San Francisco Symphony on SFS Media, Beethoven’s Mass in C Major with the Bavarian Radio Orchestra, and Rossini’s Petite messe solennelle with the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg. In 2019 Mr. Pisaroni was honored as one of five recipients of the Opera News Award. He made his San Francisco Symphony debut in Pulcinella in 2015.