Saimir Pirgu
Among Saimir Pirgu’s recent successes it is worth mentioning: L’Elisir d’amore at the Wiener Staatsoper; I Capuleti e I Montecchi in San Francisco; Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni at the Arena in Verona; I Due Figaro in Buenos Aires, with Riccardo Muti conducting; La Bohème at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona; Berlioz’s Messe Solennelle at the Salzburg Festival again under the baton of Muti; Dvorak’s Stabat Mater in Graz with Nikolaus Harnoncourt at the Styriarte Festival.
Future plans: La Traviata at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples and at the Metropolitan Opera in New York; Rigoletto at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London and in Zurich; Bach’s Mass in B minor with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Chicago again under the baton of Riccardo Muti; Macbeth at the Teatro alla Pergola in Florence with James Conlon; La Bohème in Washington; Verdi’s Requiem in Munich; Messe Solennelle with the Wiener Philharmoniker in Vienna; New Years’s Day concert at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice.
Saimir Pirgu will return to Toulouse in the coming seasons with La Favorite and Rigoletto.
Théâtre du Capitole
Toulouse
November 19, 2012