Born in Turin, Massimiliano Pisapia started his vocal studies
in 1992 and later specialized under the guidance of Franco Corelli.
Winner of "Giulietta Simionato" and "Tito Gobbi" competitions, he made
his operatic debut as Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly
at the theatres in Pavia, Brescia and Como (Italy).
Afterwards Mr. Pisapia made his debut as
Riccardo in Un Ballo in Maschera at the Opernhaus
Leipzig under the baton of Riccardo Chailly. Since that moment he had
started a career performing in many of the world's most important
concert halls and opera houses, such as: the Teatro La Scala in Milan,
Opernhaus Zurich, Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, Hamburgische
Staatsoper, Teatro Colõn in Buenos Aires, Teatro del Maggio
Musicale in Florence, Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, Teatro Regio in
Turin, Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Arena di Verona, Teatro Verdi in
Trieste, Teatro Regio in Parma and Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago.
His
repertory includes: Madama Butterfly, Rigoletto,
Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Macbeth,
Simon Boccanegra, La Bohème,
Un Ballo in Maschera, I Lombardi alla
Prima Crociata, Roberto Devereux, L'Elisir
d'Amore, Gianni Schicchi, La
Traviata and Lucia di Lammermoor, to
name only a few.
Highlights
of his successful engagements it is worth mentioning: La
Bohème in Santiago de Chile, Valencia, Hamburg,
Zurich, Milan, Turin, Genoa, Verona, Florence, Torre del Lago, Cagliari
and Palermo; Madama Butterfly in Tokyo, Beijing,
Paris, Hamburg Staatsoper, Valencia, Milan, Rome, Venice, Verona,
Genoa, Torre del Lago, Parma and Palermo; Un Ballo in
Maschera in Munich, Hamburg, Leipzig, Dusseldorf, Vienna,
Trieste, Genoa, Strasbourg, Mulhouse and Colmar; Simon
Boccanegra in Vienna, Hamburg, Valencia and Turin; Gianni
Schicchi at the Opera in Frankfurt; Attila
in Amsterdam; Lucia di Lammermoor in Las Palmas; Roberto
Devereux in Munich and Bergamo; L'Elisir d'Amore,
Luisa Miller and Macbeth in
Turin; I Lombardi alla Prima Crociata in Buenos
Aires and Florence; Les Contes d'Hoffmann in
Pavia, Brescia and Como; Capriccio in Cagliari.
He
recently performed: Roberto Devereux at the
Teatro dell'Opera in Rome; Luisa Miller at the
Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich; Madama Butterfly, Aida, La
Bohème at the Teatro Regio in Turin; La
Traviata at the Festival Puccini in Torre del Lago and in
Lecce; Poliuto in Zurich and Marseille;
La Bohème (open air charity concert) at the
Salzburg Festival (Daniele Gatti conducting) and in Las Palmas; La
Bohème in Salzburg, Venice, Hamburg, Dresden and
Las Palmas; Rigoletto in Palermo; Madama
Butterfly in Minorca; Macbeth
in Verona (Teatro Filarmonico); Tosca in Atlanta;
I Lombardi alla Prima Crociata, Madama Butterfly and
Lucia di Lammermoor in Hamburg; Madama Butterfly and
Aida at the Petruzzelli in Bari; Tosca
in Bologna, Rome and Cagliari; Aida at the
Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège and in
Bergen (concert version); Rigoletto in
Bogotà ; La
Bohème in Seoul and Sassari.
Mr. Pisapia enjoys a vast concert activity:
Rossini's Stabat Mater in Milan, Zurich and
Einsiedeln (Switzerland); Dvorak's Stabat Mater
in Florence, Verona, Genoa and Trieste; Beethoven's Symphony
n.9 and Verdi's Requiem in Cagliari
and Moscow; Berlioz's symphony Roméo et Juliette
in Brussels; a gala concert in Berlin and in Parma (Teatro Regio).
Recent engagements include: Un Ballo
in Maschera in Seoul; Verdi's Requiem in
Lisboa; Madama Butterfly in Zagabria, Seoul,
Kyoto, Vienna and Turin; Il Trovatore in Cagliari
and Norma in Tenerife; La
Traviata in
Costa Rica ; Lucia
di Lammermoor in
Bucarest; Rigoletto in Genoa; La
Bohéme in Naples; Gomes' Lo Schiavo (new production) in Cagliari; Rigoletto in San Severo.
Future plans: Madama Butterfly in Sanremo and a series of Lyric
concert in Germany.
June 2019