SAIMIR PIRGU
Tenor
Saimir Pirgu figures among the brightest stars in today’s international operatic firmament and has been celebrated at every major international operatic venue, including the Metropolitan Opera, the Teatro alla Scala, the Vienna State Opera, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Paris Opéra, the Bolshoi Theatre, the Berlin Staatsoper and Deutsche Oper, the Zurich Opera, Barcelona’s Liceu, the San Francisco Opera, the Sydney Opera House, the Arena di Verona, the Salzburg Festival, the Vienna Musikverein and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw.
His recent successes include La damnation de Faust at Moscow Bolshoi Theatre, Rigoletto and King Roger at ROH London, La Traviata at Met in New York, Santa Fe Opera and Berlin State Opera, The Magic Flute at La Scala in Milan, L'elisir d'amore in Vienna and Berlin, Lucia di Lammermoor in Los Angeles and Naples, La Traviata and I Capuleti e i Montecchi in San Francisco, La Bohème and Lucia di Lammermoor in Washington, Un Ballo in Maschera in Tel Aviv, La Clemenza di Tito in Paris, Rigoletto at the Arena di Verona, in Vienna and, La Bohème in Barcelona, King Roger at Sydney Opera House, Mozart's Requiem at Chicago Symphony Center, Verdi's Requiem at Salzburg Festival, Vienna Musikverein, Bayerische Rundfunks in Munich, Pilharmonie de Paris and Amsterdam Concertgebouw.
Pirgu has collaborated with eminent conductors Riccardo Muti, Claudio Abbado, Mariss Jansons, Zubin Mehta, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Lorin Maazel, Seiji Ozawa, Gianandrea Noseda, Daniel Barenboim, James Conlon, Antonio Pappano, Daniele Gatti, Fabio Luisi, Tugan Sokhiev and directors Franco Zeffirelli, Woody Allen, Peter Stein, Graham Vick, Willy Decker, Deborah Warner, Luca Ronconi, Kasper Holten, David McVicar, Ferzan Ozpetek, Mario Martone, Michael Haneke, Robert Carsen.
Plans include: a new production of Madama Butterfly at Zürich Opernhaus; Simon Boccanegra in Naples; Roméo et Juliette in Barcelona; Rigoletto at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich; L’Elisir d’Amore and Werther at the New National Theatre in Tokyo; La Traviata in Buenos Aires and Vienna.
Pirgu’s recent King Roger, performed at London Royal House, received a nomination at Grammy Award 2017 as “Best Recording Opera”.
In September of 2013 he was awarded the coveted “Pavarotti d’Oro” (Gold Pavarotti Award).
His new Album Il Mio Canto, edited by Opus Arte, featuring many of the greatest tenor arias ever composed. The release, pays tribute to the art form he is dedicating his career to, the tradition of the great Italian Tenor.
June 2017
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