
Saimir Pirgu - Tenor
After his
recent successes as Alfredo in Traviata at the Metropolitan Opera in New
York, in Bach’s Mass in B minor with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and
Riccardo Muti and in the Petite Messe Solennelle in Paris and
Vienna under Daniele Gatti, Saimir Pirgu lately sang as Macduff in Macbeth
at the Teatro alla Pergola in Florence James Conlon conducting and Graham Vick
directing.
Future plans: Rigoletto at the Royal Opera House Covent
Garden in London, Arena in Verona, Zurich, Vienna and in Toulouse; La Bohème
in Washington; La Traviata in San Francisco and in London; La Clemenza
di Tito at the Opéra National de Paris; Macbeth and a Gala Concert at
the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona; Lucia di Lammermoor in Los
Angeles and Toulouse where he also will perform La Favorite; La
Traviata in Vienna. On the concert side Mr. Pirgu will perform in Verdi’s
Requiem in Munich with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischer Rundfunks and
in Berlioz’s Messe Solennelle with the Wiener Philharmoniker in Vienna
under the baton of Riccardo Muti.
Saimir
Pirgu’s whirlwind advance from conservatoire in Italy to the leading roles on
the world’s premier opera stages sees him already positioned as the new
generation lyric tenor of choice for leading conductors such as Claudio Abbado,
James Conlon, Daniele Gatti, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Riccardo Muti and Antonio
Pappano. From the outset the humble but determined singer was identified as a
major future talent.
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