Saimir Pirgu - Godefroy de Vaudémont / Paolo
Saimir Pirgu begun his musical studies as a violinist in his home town of Elbasan (Albania). He then continued to study singing, first in Tirana and then in Bolzano, with Vito Maria Brunetti. His break came when he was chosen by Claudio Abbado as Ferrando in Così Fan Tutte in Ferrara, which he sang with great success. Collaborations followed with Muti, Maazel, Gatti, Ozawa, Campanella, Conlon and Pappano. Among his recent debuts: Il trittico (Opéra National de Paris), L'Elisir d'Amore (Wiener Staatsoper-Vienna, Rome), La Traviata (London), Rigoletto ( Zurich), Die Zauberflöte (Milan). He made his debut with huge acclaim in the role of Idomeneo conducted by Harnoncourt at the Styriarte Festival in Graz, as Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi at the L.A, Opera directed by Woody Allen. Rinuccio is also the role that marked his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. He was Rodolfo in a production of La Bohème set in the Schweizer Fernsehen Bern and broadcasted on ARTE. He has just performed Verdi’s Requiem at the Salzburger Festspiele under Muti, and he sang Ferrando in Così fan tutte in Los Angeles (September 2011).
Future plans: La Bohème in Barcelona; La Traviata in Vienna, Berlin and New York, where he will return in the next seasons; I Capuleti e i Montecchi in San Francisco; Rigoletto at the ROH Covent Garden in London and Zurich; Don Giovanni in Paris (Opéra National de Paris).
Theater an der Wien
Vienna
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