Gianluca Buratto attended the "Verdi" Conservatoire in Milan, where he
studied with Mrs Hayward. He attended master classes with Sara Mingardo,
Ernesto Palacio, Jaume Aragall and Dalton Baldwin.
In 2006 he won the First Prize in the "Tagliavini" Competition and was
invited to sing Verdi's Requiem at the Festspielehaus in Bregenz.
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: the modern
premiere of Cesti's Le Disgrazie d'Amore with the ensemble Auser
Musici at the Teatro Verdi in Pisa; Bach's Cantata BWV 61 with
the Bach Consort Wien and Dubrovsky at the Musikverein in Vienna;
Donizetti's Maria Stuarda (Giorgio Talbot) again in Trieste; Fux's
Cristo nell'Orto in Vienna and Graz; Bach's B minor Mass
with Jordi Savall in Madrid and Barcelona; both Mozart and Jommelli's La
Betulia liberata with 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 Nagano; Bach's Johannes-Passion
with Al Ayre Espanol on tour in Spain and Germany; Tosca, La
Bohème (Colline) under Chailly, I Due Foscari and Thais
in Valencia; the world première of Solbiati's La leggenda at the
Teatro Regio in Turin under Noseda; Le Nozze di Figaro (Bartolo)
with Rousset in Barcelona; L'incoronazione di Poppea (Seneca) at
the Innsbruck Festival; Macbeth at the Teatro alla Scala in
Milan, Salzburg Festival, Ravenna and Chicago with the Chicago Symphony
Orchestra under Muti; Maria Stuarda at the Maggio Musicale in
Florence; again Mozart's La Betulia Liberata at the Wratislavia
Cantans Festival in Wroclaw under Rovaris; Verdi's Requiem under
Wellber and Die Walkure (Hunding) under Luisi at the Festival
della Valle d'Itria in Martina Franca; Rota's Mysterium at the
Teatro di San Carlo in Naples and on tour; Rigoletto at the Teatro
Carlo Felice in Genoa, Luisi conducting.
Past engagements also include: Monteverdi's L'Orfeo in Nancy and
in Paris under Rousset; Haendel's Rinaldo at the Theater an der
Wien under Minasi; Haendel's Admeto in Krakow and Vienna with
Curtis; Beethoven's Missa Solemnis in Cagliari; Il Ritorno
d'Ulisse in Patria (Nettuno) at the Zurich Opera House; La
Bohème at the Terme di Caracalla in Rome and at the Dutch National
Opera in Amsterdam; Donizetti's I Puritani (Giorgio) at the Maggio
Musicale Fiorentino; Rigoletto in Bogotà and at the Macerata Opera
Festival.
He sang in Monteverdi's L'Orfeo and Vespro della Beata Vergine
with the Monteverdi Choir and Gardiner on tour in the United States, BBC
Proms in London and Versailles; Puccini's La Bohème in Palermo;
Donizetti's Le Duc d'Albe in London (Opera Rara); Die
Zauberfloete in Liège under Arrivabeni; Mascagni's Guglielmo
Ratcliff at the Wexford Festival Opera and Turandot (Timur)
in Montpellier.
In 2017, Gianluca Buratto took part in the world tour of John Eliot
Gardiner's Monteverdi opera trilogy in the roles of Caronte and Pluto (L'Orfeo),
Tempo, Antinoos and Nettuno (Il ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria) and
Seneca (L'incoronazione di Poppea).
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 Gardiner; Faccio's Amleto and Turandot
at the Bregenzer Festspiele; Le Nozze di Figaro (Bartolo) in
Zurich; Don Giovanni (Commendatore) in Bilbao and Turin; Bach's Magnificat
(concert and recording) and Verdi's Requiem with Gardiner in
London and on tour; La Bohème in Florence and in Amsterdam;
Schubert's Missa D950 at the Salzburger Festspiele under Muti; Die
Zauberflote in Rome; Il Cappello di paglia di Firenze 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 under the baton of Chailly, after that he sang in
Vivaldi's Magnificat, Mozart's Kronungsmesse and as
Ferrando in Il Trovatore again in Milan; Sparafucile in Rigoletto
in Berlin, Turin, Lyon, Verona (Filarmonico) and Milan; Cadmus/
Somnus in Handel's Semele with Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra and
John Eliot Gardiner on tour; Missa Defunctorum under Muti in
Pavia (Certosa) and in Florence; Claudio in Handel's Agrippina in
Paris (TCE) with Il Pomo d'oro, at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munchen
and at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden; Haly in Rameau's Les indes
galantes in Geneve (under Rousset); Kronungsmesse, Missa in
Tempore Belli, Mozart's Requiem; and Falstaff
(Gardiner conduting) in Florence; Verdi's Requiem and Beethoven's
Ninth Simphony at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo; Fiesco in Simon
Boccanegra in Copenhagen; Rossini's Stabat Mater at the
Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Saint Denis and in Venice;
L' Incoronazione di Poppea in Budapest; La Bohème and Le
Nozze di Figaro in London (ROH); Il Trovatore in Barcelona
and Bologna; I Puritani (concert version) at the San Carlo in
Naples and Verdi's Requiem in Turin; Don Giovanni
(Commendatore) in Valencia; La Boheme in Paris (TCE); Rigoletto
at the Arena di Verona, in London (ROH) and in Madrid; Handel's
Agrippina in Amsterdam; Don Carlo in Stuttgart; Don
Giovanni in Venice and Luisa Miller (concert version) in
Naples.
Engagements for the 2024/25 season include Handel's Orlando in
Cologne; Die Zauberflote in Padua; Romeo et Juliette in
Naples; the world premiere of Filidei's Il nome della rosa at La
Scala in Milan; Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno in Vienna;
and Rigoletto at the Arena di Verona.
His discography includes: Puccini's La Bohème with Riccardo
Chailly (Unitel); Handel's Giulio Cesare (Naive); 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).
February 2025