Saimir Pirgu - Tenor
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. He has just starred in La Traviata for the opening night season at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples.
Future plans: La Traviata at the Metropolitan Opera in New York; Rigoletto at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, in Toulouse and in Zurich; Macbeth at the Teatro alla Pergola in Florence with James Conlon and at the Gran Teatre el Liceu in Barcelona; La Bohème in Washington; La Clemenza di Tito at the Opéra National de Paris; Lucia di Lemmermoor in Los Angeles; La Favorite in Toulouse; Bach’s Mass in B minor with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Chicago under the baton of Riccardo Muti; Verdi’s Requiem in Munich; Berlioz’s Messe Solennelle with the Wiener Philharmoniker in Vienna; New Years’s Day concert at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice; Gala Concert at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona.
Herkulessaalder Residenz
München
December 20, 2012
December 21, 2012
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