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Saimir Pirgu

Birth : , Albania

History

Born in 1981 in the Albanian Elbsan, SAIMIR PIRGU is one of the leading tenors in the international Opera Panorama. At just 22 years old, Claudio Abbado chose him for Ferrando in Cosi fan tutte in Ferrara, a role which he then sung in the Salzburg Festival in 2004. Soon after, he began an important collaboration with the Wiener Staatsoper which continues to this day. Important role debuts followed this, which led him to the most important opera stages in the world: Wiener Staatsoper, Met, Scala, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Opera National de Paris, Teatro dell‘Opera Roma, Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcellona, Washington National Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Arena di Verona, Teatro Colón di Buenos Aires, San Francisco Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Opernhaus Zürich, Nomori Opera Tokio. the last Seasons were marked by acclaimed performances worldwide: Rodolfo (Washington), Alfredo (Berlin, San Francisco, Zürich, New York), Duca (London, Zürich, Verona), Edgardo (Los Angeles), Tito (Paris), Macduff (Florenz), Tebaldo (San Francisco), Don Ottavio (Verona). At the Wiener Staatsoper he has sung among others, Ferrando, Ottavio, Fenton, Nemorino, Alfredo and Edmondo until now. http://www.wiener-staatsoper.at/Content.Node/home/kuenstler/saengerinnen/Pirgu.en.php

Movies

Duke of Mantua

When a sharp-tongued court jester Rigoletto is cursed for his spiteful words, he is forced to hide his unworldly daughter Gilda from his own licentious master the Duke. For Verdi’s wonderful ambivalent hunchback, paradise is the peaceful home and family that he struggles to protect.

When a beautiful young woman in rural Moravia becomes unexpectedly pregnant, she learns that love is sometimes only skin-deep. Asmik Grigorian as Jenůfa in her Covent Garden debut and Karita Mattila as the Kostelnička lead a star cast with Hungarian conductor Henrik Nánási conducting a stunning score infused with traditional folk melodies of Janáček’s native Moravia. Claus Guth’s acclaimed staging - both elegant and open while being utterly claustrophobic and oppressive - captures the great humanity at the heart of the opera.

Romeo et Juliette - Liceu

Romeo et Juliette - Liceu

Romeo

Verdi: Simon Boccanegra

Verdi: Simon Boccanegra

Gabriele Adorno

The dashing corsair Simon Boccanegra and Maria, daughter of the nobleman Jacopo Fiesco, have fallen in love and had an illegitimate daughter. The child has disappeared from her foster-home. Boccanegra returns to Genoa to break the news to Maria, and learns of her death as a crowd, led by the plebeian Paolo Albiani, proclaim him Doge of Genoa. Performed at the Teatro di San Carlo, Torino on October 10th, 2017.

La bohème - Liceu

La bohème - Liceu

Rodolfo

The ROH Live: La Traviata

The ROH Live: La Traviata

Alfredo Germont

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London Live showing of Verdi's Traviata with subsequent re-screenings Violetta, a Parisian courtesan suffering from tuberculosis, is throwing a party to celebrate her recovery. A young nobleman, Alfredo, plans to attend, and has long been in love with Violetta. Before long, Violetta has fallen for him as well, but Alfredo's father disapproves of their relationship. He convinces Violetta to leave Alfredo for the sake of his family's image, not realising how ill she really is. Richard Eyre's production of 'La Traviata' immerses the audience in the indulgence of 19th Century Paris, a vivid setting for Verdi's famous score.

The story concerns the enlightenment of the Christian King Roger II by a young shepherd who represents pagan ideals. Kasper Holten’s production (The Royal Opera’s first) of Król Roger (King Roger) brought the opera back to the London stage after an absence of almost 40 years. Karol Szymanowski’s masterpiece powerfully presents the dilemmas of culture versus nature and man versus beast, and movingly depicts King Roger’s inner struggles as he moves from an impossible life of repressed desires to the other extreme, giving in to his own demons. Meanwhile, Roger’s people, seduced by the promises of the mysterious Shepherd, are drawn towards totalitarianism and repression. Antonio Pappano conducts Szymanowksi’s opulent and beautiful score, with a cast including Mariusz Kwiecień as Roger (one of the greatest interpreters of the role today), Saimir Pirgu as the Shepherd, and Georgia Jarman in her Royal Opera debut as Roger’s loving queen Roxana.

Alfredo Germont

"This is Vienna State Opera live at home". March 2015.

I Capuleti e i Montecchi

I Capuleti e i Montecchi

Tebaldo

Bellini's radiant retelling of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is a beacon in the bel canto tradition. San Francisco Opera's co-production features two of the greatest voices in bel canto together for the first time: mezzo Joyce DiDonato and soprano Nicole Cabell. Their compelling duet is one of the finest marriages between two voices in many, many years. The production, directed by Vincent Broussard and featuring costumes by Christian Lecroix, is captured in brilliant HD.

Il trittico - Gianni Schicchi

Il trittico - Gianni Schicchi

The farce Gianni Schicchi is the triptych’s third and final chapter. In 2012 at the Puccini Plus Festival, the Opéra de Lyon presented Puccini’s Il trittico over the course of several evenings. The plot is set in Florence in the 13th century. The elderly Buoso Donati has just died and willed all of his worldly goods to the clergy. His panic-stricken family calls on Gianni Schicchi, who decides to impersonate the deceased man in order to dictate a new will to the notary. Malicious and strategic, Schicchi takes advantage of the situation to steal the old man’s belongings for himself. The triptych's final installment, this unconventional operatic masterpiece closes on the radiant smiles of its comedic lovers.

'La Bohème' im Hochhaus

'La Bohème' im Hochhaus

Rodolfo

Gioacchino Rossini - La Cambiale di Matrimonio

Gioacchino Rossini - La Cambiale di Matrimonio

La cambiale di matrimonio

La cambiale di matrimonio

Edoardo Milfort (tenore)

Rossini's first staged opera already contains all the elements that would take the music world by storm in Il barbiere di Siviglia, L'italiana in Algeri and La Cenerentola in the years to come: melodic inventiveness, ingenious connections between sung lines and orchestral accompaniment in the exuberant finale, musical humour and ensembles using breathtakingly fast parlando singing. This sparkling production continues the Rossini one-act opera series emerging from the Schwetzingen Festival with excellent direction, acting and stagecraft. Director Michael Hampe created a perfect realization of the opera in the small, jewel-like Rococo Theatre of Schwetzingen Palace in May 1989.