One of the major talents to come out of Italy recently, bass Gianluca Buratto made his debut at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste, in the world premiere of Solbiati’s Il Carro e I Canti. His past engagements include Mercadante’s Virginia and La bohème at the Wexford Opera Festival, Mozart’s La Betulia liberata at the Salzburg Festival under Riccardo Muti, Le nozze di Figaro with Christophe Rousset in Barcelona, La bohème under Riccardo Chailly and I Due Foscari in Valencia, I Puritani (Giorgio) at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, and Die Zauberflöte in Liège under Paolo Arrivabeni. Gianluca recently performed in his first solo recital at the Wigmore Hall in London and in Faccio’s Amleto and Turandot at the Bregenzer Festspiele. Gianluca took part in the 2017 Monteverdi Trilogy Project with John Eliot Gardiner, the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque soloists as Seneca, Antinoo and Plutone, on a worldwide tour celebrating the composer’s 450th anniversary.

His discography includes Puccini’s La bohème with Riccardo Chailly (Unitel); Handel’s Giulio Cesare (Naïve); Rossi’s Oratorio della Settimana Santa (MV Cremona); Lieder by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (Winter and Winter); Cavalli’s Missa pro defunctis (Tactus); Bassani’s La tromba della divina misericordia (Concerto) and Rota’s Mysterium (Decca).