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Saimir Pirgu - Alfredo
After his recent successes as Alfredo in La Traviata at the Metropolitan
Opera in New York and singing Bach’s Mass in B minor in Chicago under the
baton of Riccardo Muti, Saimir Pirgu will returns to Zurich singing one of his
main role. 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. 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, Zurich 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; Verdi’s
Requiem in Munich; Berlioz’s Messe Solennelle with the Wiener
Philharmoniker and La Traviata in Vienna; Macbeth and a Gala
Concert at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona; Verdi’s Requiem in
Munich.
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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