Saimir Pirgu sings in Bach’s Mass in B minorwith the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Chicago, Riccardo Muti conducting

Thursday, April 11, 2013

Saimir Pirgu

Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chicago

Bach’s Mass in B minor

Saimir Pirgu sings in Bach’s Mass in B minor
with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Chicago
Riccardo Muti conducting

Saimir Pirgu - tenor

After his recent success as Alfredo in La Traviata at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Saimir Pirgu will debut in Chicago, singing Bach’s Mass in B minor again under the baton of Riccardo Muti. Amongst Saimir Pirgu’s recent prominent engagements: a new production of La Traviata by Deborah Warner at the Wiener Festwochen followed by Dvorak’s Stabat Mater in Graz with Nikolaus Harnoncourt at the Styriarte Festival and then at the Salzburg Festival for Berlioz’s Messe Solennelle with Riccardo Muti. Then he sang at the Arena in Verona as Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni; L’Elisir d’amore again at the Wiener Staatsoper; I Capuleti e I Montecchi in San Francisco; I Due Figaro in Buenos Aires, Riccardo Muti conducting; La Bohème at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona; Schubert’s Mass N.5 with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks in Munich again with Muti; La Traviata at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Mr Pirgu just starred in La Traviata for the opening night season at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples and at the New Year’s Day concert at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice under Sir J. E. Gardiner, and he was engaged at the Zurich Opernhaus for the new production of Rigoletto.

About his future plans: Rigoletto at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London and in Toulouse; 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; La Traviata in Vienna; Rigoletto and Traviata in Zurich; Verdi’s Requiem in Munich; Berlioz’s Messe Solennelle with the Wiener Philharmoniker in Vienna; Gala Concert at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona.

Mr Pirgu regularly collaborates with prestigious conductors such as: Claudio Abbado, James Colon, Daniele Gatti, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Lorin Maazel, Riccardo Muti, Seiji Ozawa, and Antonio Pappano.

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