Gianluca Terranova is becoming one
of the most sought-after lyric tenor with his ease in the high register
and
great stage presence. In 2010 he had great personal success on the
occasion of
his Teatro alla Scala debut as
the Duke
of Mantua in Rigoletto under the baton of James Conlon, with whom he
also
appeared as the Duke at the Los Angeles Opera for his successful
American debut
in November/December 2010.
Born in Rome, Terranova graduated
with a degree in piano and was involved in a variety of activities in
musical
theater and TV as an interpreter, composer and arranger. During this
time he
made his professional debut in Il barbiere di Siviglia in Rome, and was
also
heard in Falstaff, Madama Butterfly, Nabucco, Les contes d’Hoffmann,
Mavra, Il
pirata and Gina by Cilea.
In 2008 the tenor attracted
international attention when jumped in as Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto at
the
Arena di Verona conducted by Renato Palumbo.
He also appeared: as Rodolfo in La bohème at the Maggio Musicale
Fiorentino, at the Puccini Festival Torre del Lago and at the Teatro
Comunale
in Bologna; as Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor, a role in which he would
also
make his debut at the Frankfurt Opera; as Alfredo in La Traviata at the
Filarmonico in Verona and at La Fenice in Venice (conducted by Myung
Wung
Chung); as Duke in Rigoletto in Florence; as Tonio in La Fille du
Régiment in
Trieste and in Como, Bergamo, Brescia.
Later he performed: La Damnation de Faust in Palermo; Lucia di
Lammermoor in Naples; La bohème in Venice, at the Concertgebouw
Amsterdam, at
the Opera Australia in Sydney, at the Grange Park London Summer
Festival, at
the San Carlo in Naples, in Atlanta and at the New National Theatre in
Tokyo;
La Traviata for Opera Australia in Sydney (open-air), at the Oper
Leipzig and
at the Deutsche Oper Berlin; Rigoletto in Venice, at the Arena in
Verona, at
the Wielki Theatre in Warszaw, at the Opera Australia, in Rome and then
in
Liege; Simon Boccanegra (Gabriele Adorno) at the Teatro Regio in Turin
and in
Genoa.
Furthermore he sung: the Verdi's
Messa da Requiem under the baton of Gianluigi Gelmetti in Trieste (in
the same
theatre he sung Un ballo in maschera again under G. Gelmetti); Lucia di
Lammermoor at the Carlo Felice in Genoa; Don Carlo at the Deutsche Oper
am
Rehin in Düsseldorf; Norma (Pollione) in Essen Theater und Philarmonie;
Maria
Stuarda (Roberto) in Düsseldorf; Madama Butterfly (Pinkerton) at the
Dallas
Opera, in Verona; Turandot (Calaf) at the Atlanta Opera; Il trovatore
(Manrico)
in Modena and Reggio Emilia; Carmen (Don Josè) in Atlanta; Puccini's
Messa di
Gloria in Madrid with the Orquesta Nacional de España.; Rigoletto at the
Opera
Australia; Aida in Nacy (Radamès) and Trieste; Madama Butterfly in
Athens.
He conferred face and voice to
Enrico Caruso in the Italian TV-movie "Caruso, la voce dell’amore".
In October 2012 he released his first cd: ”Gianluca Terranova canta
Caruso”
(EMI).
After his recent success starring as
Rodolfo in La Bohème at the Wiener Staatsoper and in Lisbon Gianluca
Terranova
performed Die Lustige Witwe in Trieste, Pagliacci in Salerno, La
Traviata in
Rovigo; Madama Butterfly in Atlanta and London; Luisa Miller in Angers
and
Nantesl, Macbeth in Sassari; Rigoletto in Gozo, Puccini’s Messa di
Gloria in
Ankara and Aida in Essen.
Plans
include Un Ballo in maschera in Bejing and
Madama
Butterfly in Bangkok.
May 2024