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 the baton of
Riccardo Chailly, after that he sang in Vivaldi's Magnificat and
Mozart's Kronungsmesse at La Scala in Milan, as Sparafucile in Rigoletto
in Berlin and at the Teatro Regio in Turin John Turturro directing; Die
Schopfung in Danmark; 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
in Paris (TCE) with Il Pomo d’oro and at the Bayerische Staatsoper in München and at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden
Future plans include: Händel’s Agrippina in Amsterdam (Dutch National Opera); Haly in
Rameau’s Les indes galantes in Geneve (under Rousset); Ferrando in Il
Trovatore and Re di Scozia in Ariodante; Mozart’s Requiem in
Berlin; Rocco in Fidelio at the Glyndebourne Festival; Fiesco in Simon
Boccanegra in Copenhagen; Commendatore in Don Giovanni at the
Staatsoper in Hamburg; Colline in La Boheme and Le Nozze di Figaro in London (ROH) and
Händel’s Ariodante in Milan (La Scala).
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).
December 2019