Recent successes include: La Traviata and King Roger at the Royal Opera House in London under the baton of Antonio Pappano, Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto and Nemorino in L’Elisir d’Amore in Vienna; Alfredo in a new production of La Traviata in Berlin under the baton of Daniel Barenboim; Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni at the Arena in Verona, Stefano Montanari conducting; Riccardo in Un ballo in maschera in Tel Aviv with Zubin Mehta; Rigoletto in Toulouse Daniel Oren conducting; Verdi’s Requiem in Amsterdam with Marc Albrecht and in Paris with Gianandrea Noseda and the Orchestre de Paris; Puccini’s Messa di Gloria at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris, Paolo Arrivabeni conducting; Verdi’s Requiem with the Orchestre Philarmonique du Luxembourg.

Plans include: Don Giovanni at the Wiener Staatsoper; La Traviata at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin; Falstaff in Chicago, Riccardo Muti conducting; a new production of Madama Butterfly in Zurich; La Bohème (c. Marc Piollet-d. Jonathan Miller), Macbeth and Roméo et Juliette at the Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona; revivals of King Roger at the Sydney Opera House, Andrea Molino conducting; a new production of Rigoletto at the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam, Damiano Michieletto directing; L’Elisr d’Amore at the New National Theatre in Tokyo. On the concert side, Mr. Pirgu will sing Verdi’s Requiem in Barcelona with the London Symphony Orchestra and in London with the Royal Philarmonic Orchestra and Vasily Petrenko at the Royal Festival Hall; series of concerts in Taiwan; a gala concert at the Chorégies d’Orange. Saimir Pirgu will be engaged in a world concert tour presenting his new solo album Il mio canto, published by Opus Arte.