Saimir Pirgu - Tenor
The Albanian tenor returns to the Verdi’s masterpiece, he had already sung in the last year several times: at the Enescu Festival under the baton of Antonio Pappano, in Vienna and Munich with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks and Mariss Jansons conducting and at the Ravenna Festival under Riccardo Muti.
Plans include: La Bohème in Washington; La Traviata, Rigoletto and King Roger in London (Royal Opera House); Macbeth at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona; Lucia di Lammermoor in Toulouse; La Traviata in Vienna, Berlin; L’Elisir d’Amore in Vienna and Berlin; Un Ballo in Maschera in Tel Aviv; Rigoletto in Zurich, Vienna and Toulouse; Falstaff in Chicago, Muti conducting.
On the concert side Mr. Pirgu continues his collaboration with Riccardo Muti, who will conduct him in Mozart’ s Requiem in Chicago with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
Auditorio Kursaal
Donostia - San Sebastián
August 26th, 2014