Italian bass-baritone Luca Pisaroni has established himself as one of the most charismatic and versatile singers performing today. Since his debut at age 26 with the Vienna Philharmonic at the Salzburg Festival, led by Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Mr. Pisaroni has continued to bring his compelling artistry to the world’s leading opera houses, concert halls, and festivals.

In the 2023-24 season, Mr. Pisaroni makes his house and role debut with Los Angeles Opera as Don Basilio in Il barbiere di Siviglia. He will return to Opéra National de Paris to sing Achilla in Guilio Cesare. Mr. Pisaroni will sing the title role in Don Giovanni with Houston Grand Opera conducted by Dame Jane Glover. In concert, Mr. Pisaroni will sing with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony conducted by Andrew Manze and Stravinsky’s Pulcincella with San Francisco Symphony conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas.

In the 2022-2023 season, Mr. Pisaroni returned to the Canadian Opera Company to sing the title role in Le nozze di Figaro, traveled to Japan for a house debut at the Hyogo Performing Arts Center as Leporello in Don Giovanni. Mr. Pisaroni returned to Seattle Opera to sing Dulcamara in L’elisir d’amore and Opéra national de Paris to sing Alidoro in La Cenerentola.

Mr. Pisaroni’s diverse opera repertoire includes Golaud in Pelleas et Melisande at Opéra National de Paris; Mahomet II in Le Siège de Corinthe at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro; Méphistophélès in Faust at Houston Grand Opera; Enrico VIII in Anna Bolena at Opernhaus Zürich; Conte Rodolfo in La Sonnambula and Mustafà in L’italiana in Algeri at Wiener Staatsoper; Giorgio in I Puritani and Caliban in The Enchanted Island at the Met; Pizarro in Fidelio at Teatro alla Scala; Le nozze di Figaro at Opéra National de Paris, San Francisco Opera, and the Bayerische Staatsoper; Leporello in Don Giovanni at Teatro alla Scala, the Metropolitan Opera, Salzburg Festival, and Tanglewood with the Boston Symphony Orchestra; Guglielmo in Così fan tutte at Glyndebourne and the Salzburg Festival; Conte Dorval in Martin y Soler’s Il Burbero di Buon Cuore at Teatro Real; Maometto in Rossini’s Maometto II at the Canadian Opera Company; and Tiridate in Handel’s Radamisto at Santa Fe Opera.

In concert, Mr. Pisaroni has performed Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 and Schönberg’s A Survivor from Warsaw at the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg; Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle at the Royal Festival Hall in London; Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 at the Gewandhaus and at the Konzerthaus Dortmund with Andris Nelsons; Frère Laurent in Berlioz’ Roméo et Juliette with Michael Tilson-Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony, Verdi’s Messa da Requiem with the Collegium Vocale Gent and Philippe Herreweghe, Haydn’s Die Jahreszeiten under the direction of Nikolaus Harnoncourt; Rossini’s Stabat Mater with Franz Welser-Möst; Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri with Sir Simon Rattle and the Philadelphia Orchestra; Schumann’s Faustszenen with Daniel Harding and the Berlin Philharmonic, and Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis with the LSO and Michael Tilson-Thomas.

Mr. Pisaroni has recorded for all major labels. His discography includes Don Giovanni and Rinaldo from the Glyndebourne Festival; Le nozze di Figaro with Opéra National de Paris; Così fan tutte, Don Giovanni, and Le nozze di Figaro at the Salzburg Festival; Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra with the Wiener Symphoniker, and recordings of Don Giovanni and Le nozze di Figaro with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Recent releases include Berlioz’ Roméo et Juliette with the San Francisco Symphony; Beethoven’s Mass in C Major with Mariss Jansons and the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, and Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle with the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg and Gustavo Gimeno.

In 2019, Luca Pisaroni was honored as one of five recipients of the Opera News Award at a ceremony hosted in New York City.