Gianluca
Buratto attended the “Giuseppe Verdi” Conservatoire
in
Milan, where he studied singing under the guidance of Margaret Hayward.
He attended numerous master classes with Sara Mingardo, Ernesto
Palacio, Jaume Aragall and Dalton Baldwin.
In 2006 he won the First Prize in the
“Ferruccio Tagliavini” Competition and was invited
to sing Verdi’s Requiem at the
Festspielehaus in Bregenz and Mozart’s Requiem
at the Graf- Zeppelin-Haus in Friedrichshafen. He also won the Rotary
Prize for Vocal Chamber Music in 2008 in Milan.
Mr. Buratto made his operatic debut in 2009 in
the world premiere of Solbiati’s Il carro e i canti
at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste, after which numerous important
collaborations followed: Stravinsky’s Pulcinella
and Mozart’s Coronation mass KV 317
with the Orchestra Sinfonica in Lecce; the modern premiere of
Cesti’s Le Disgrazie d'Amore with the
ensemble Auser Musici conducted by Carlo Ipata at the Teatro Verdi in
Pisa; Bach’s Cantata Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland
BWV 61 with the Bach Consort Wien and Ruben Dubrovsky at the
Musikverein in Vienna; Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda
(Giorgio Talbot) at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste; Fux’s Cristo
nell'Orto at the Osterklang in Vienna and at the
Psalmfestival in Graz; Bach’s B minor Mass
with Jordi Savall in Madrid and Barcelona; both Mozart and
Jommelli’s La Betulia liberat with
Riccardo Muti at the Salzburg Festival and in Ravenna;
Mercadante’s Virginia and
Puccini’s La Bohème at the
Wexford Festival Opera; Ambrosini’s Il killer
di parole (world premiere), La Bohème
and Rigoletto at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice;
Mozart’s Mass in C minor KV 427 at the
Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome under the baton of Kent
Nagano; Bach’s Johannes-Passion with Al
Ayre Español and Eduardo Lopez-Banzo on tour in Spain and
Germany; Tosca, La Bohème
(Colline) under Riccardo Chailly, I Due Foscari
and Thaïs in Valencia (Palau de les
Arts); the world première of Solbiati’s La
leggenda at the Teatro Regio in Turin under Gianadrea
Noseda; Le Nozze di Figaro (Bartolo) with
Christophe Rousset in Barcelona; a revival of Ambrosini’s Il
killer di parole in Nancy; L’incoronazione
di Poppea (Seneca) at the Innsbruck Festival; Macbeth
at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, at the Salzburg Festival, in Ravenna
and Chicago with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under the baton of
Riccardo Muti; Thaïs in Lübeck;
Maria Stuarda at the Maggio Musicale in Florence; again
Mozart’s La Betulia Liberata at the
Wratislavia Cantans Festival in Wroclaw under Corrado Rovaris;
Verdi’s Requiem under Omer Meir Wellber
and Die Walküre (Hunding) under Fabio
Luisi at the Festival della Valle d’Itria in Martina Franca;
Rota’s Mysterium at the Teatro di San
Carlo in Naples then in Milan with La Verdi Orchestra and at the Teatro
Petruzzelli in Bari; Rigoletto at the Teatro
Carlo Felice in Genoa, Fabio Luisi conducting and Il
Cappello di Paglia di Firenze (Nonancourt) at the Maggio
Musicale in Florence.
Past engagements also include: Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo
(Caronte and Plutone) in Nancy and in Paris under Christophe Rousset;
Haendel’s Rinaldo (Argante) at the
Theater an der Wien under Riccardo Minasi; Haendel’s
Admeto in Krakow and Vienna (Theater an der Wien) with Alan
Curtis; Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis in
Cagliari; Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria (Nettuno)
at the Zurich Opera House; La Bohème
at the Baths of Caracalla with the Rome Opera and at the Dutch National
Opera in Amsterdam; Donizetti’s I Puritani
(Giorgio) at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino; Rigoletto
at the Festival Internacional de musica de Bogotà and at the
Macerata Opera Festival.
He sang in Monteverdi's L'Orfeo
(Caronte and Plutone) and Vespro della Beata Vergine with
the Monteverdi Choir and John Eliot Gardiner on tour in the United
States, at the BBC Proms in London and in Versailles;
Puccini’s La Bohème in
Palermo; Donizetti’s Le Duc d'Albe in
London (Opera Rara); Die Zauberfloete (Sarastro)
in Liège under Paolo Arrivabeni; Mascagni’s Guglielmo
Ratcliff at the Wexford Festival Opera; Verdi’s
Requiem in Manchester; Turandot
(Timur) in Montpellier and a tour baroque concert with Cappella
Mediterranea and Leonardo Alarcon.
Gianluca
Buratto has been selected for the 2017 Monteverdi project with John
Eliot Gardiner and takes part in the worldwide tour of the
Monteverdi’s Trilogy: Il Ritorno di
Ulisse in patria (Antinoo/
Tempo/Nettuno) L’Orfeo (Cartone/
Plutone) and L’Incoronazione
di Poppea (Seneca)
and in the Monteverdi’s Vespri della
Beata Vergine in
Italy (Festival Monteverdi Cremona, Anima Mundi Pisa, St. Denis and
Versailles.)
Most
recently, Mr. Buratto performed in his first solo
recital at the Wigmore Hall in London; in Stravinskij’s Oedipus
rex with the Berliner Philarmoniker under J. E. Gardiner;
Faccio's Amleto and Turandot
at the Bregenzer Festspiele; Le nozze di Figaro (Bartolo)
in Zurich; Don Giovanni (Commendatore) in
Bilbao; Bach’s Magnificat (concert and
recording) with Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the Monteverdi Choir and
Orchestra in London and on tour; La Boheme
(Colline) at the Opera in Florence and at the Dutch National Opera
& Ballet in Amsterdam; Commendatore in Don Giovanni
in Turin;
Schubert’s Missa
D950 at the Salzburger Festspiele under Riccardo Muti; Sarastro in Die Zauberflöte
in Rome; Verdi’s Requiem
under J. E. Gardiner in an Europe tour; Il
Cappello di paglia di Firenze (Nonancourt) at
the San Carlo in Naples; Petite Messe Solennelle
with the Teatro alla Scala in Pavia. Mr Buratto starred as Papa Leone
in Verdi's Attila, opening night at the Teatro alla Scala (season
2018/2019) under th ebaton of Riccardo Chailly, after that he sang in
Vivaldi's Magnificat and Mozart's Kronungsmesse at La Scala in Milan,
as Sparafucile in Rigoletto John Turturro directing at the Teatro Regio
in Turin, Die Schopfung in Danmark
His discography includes:
Puccini’s La Bohème with
Riccardo Chailly (Unitel); Handel’s Giulio
Cesare (Naïve); Rossi’s Oratorio della
Settimana Santa (MV Cremona); Lieder by Carl
Philipp Emanuel Bach (Winter and Winter); Cavalli’s Missa
pro defunctis (Tactus);
Bassani’s La tromba della divina
misericordia (Concerto), Rota's Mysterium
(Decca).
Future plans include: Cadmus/Somnus in Händel's Semele (concert and recording) with Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra in Paris, Barcelona, London, Milan and Rome; Missa Defunctorum under Riccardo Muti in Pavia (Certosa) and in Florence (Teatro dell'opera); Claudio in
Händel’s Agrippina at
the Bayerische Staatsoper in München and then in London (Royal
Opera House Covent Garden) and in Amsterdam (Dutch National Opera) and with Il Pomo d'oro in Paris;
Bellone in Rameau’s Les indes galantes
in Geneve (under Rousset). In the next seasons Mr. Buratto will also
perform also as Ferrando in Il Trovatore and Re di Scozia in Ariodante; Rocco in Fidelio at the Glyndebourne Festival and Commendatore in Don Giovanni at the Staatsoper in
Hamburg.
March 2019