Tenor
World
Born in Catania, a true Italian-style lyric tenor with a bright voice and ringing high notes, Giulio Pelligra regularly performs in the most prestigious opera houses in Italy and abroad, working with such conductors as Roberto Abbado, Daniel Oren, Renato Palumbo, Donato Renzetti, Riccardo Frizza, Daniele Gatti, Henrik Nánási, and with such stage directors as Graham Vick, Pier Luigi Pizzi, Damiano Michieletto, Henning Brockhaus, Valentina Carrasco, Emma Dante, Calixto Bieto and Emilio Sagi.
At the age of 20, he made his stage debut, singing Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia at the Manoel Theatre in Malta, and then established himself as one of the leading interpreters of the Belcanto repertoire, with roles as Percy in Anna Bolena (Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Teatro Regio di Parma and in Karlsruhe) Roberto Devereux (Teatro Massimo Palermo), Roberto Leicester in Maria Stuarda (Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova, Prinzregententheater in Munich), Nemorino in L’elisir d’amore (Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Theater Sankt Gallen, Rennes, Angers and Nantes), Carlo in Linda di Chamounix (Opera di Roma, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino), Ernesto in Don Pasquale (Theater Basel). Bellini’s roles include Tebaldo in I Capuleti e i Montecchi (Opera di Roma), Arturo in I puritani (Teatro Bellini Catania, Seoul Arts Center), Elvino in La sonnambula (Filarmonico di Verona, Las Palmas), Pollione in Norma (Luglio Musicale Trapanese), while Rossini’s roles include Arnold in Guillaume Tell (Opera Lombardia), Jago in Otello (Opéra Royal de Wallonie Liège).
He has also achieved great acclaim in the Verdi repertoire, as Alfredo in La traviata (Opera di Roma, Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Turin, Genoa, Bari Palermo and in Japan), Duca di Mantova in Rigoletto (Sassari, Lithuanian National Opera Vilnius, Venice), Ismaele in Nabucco (Teatro Massimo di Palermo, Teatro Petruzzelli di Bari, Theater Sainkt Gallen, Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège), Henri in Les Vêpres siciliennes (Palermo, Rome), Gaston in Jerusalem (Theather Friburg).
Other highlights of his career are Rodolfo in La bohème at Grand Théâtre de Genève and at Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Fra Diavolo at Teatro Massimo di Palermo, Romeo in Roméo et Juliette in Pisa and in Ravenna, Tamino in Die Zauberflöte (Rome), Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni (Palermo, Ravenna and Salerno), the title role in Idomeneo (Palermo, Würzburg).
His concert repertoire includes Puccini’s Messa di Gloria, Rossini’s Stabat Mater, Mozart and Verdi’s Requiem, Boccherini’s Stabat Mater and Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle.
LATEST PERFORMANCES: Berlioz’ Leilo in concert with Czech National Symphony Orchestra in Prague; La traviata in Nantes, Rennes and Angers; Giovanna D’Arco in Malta; Lucia Di Lammermoor at Teatro Bellini di Catania;Puccini’s Messa di gloria with Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI in Turin; Falstaff and Die Zauberflöte at Opéra Royal de Wallonie Liège; Macbeth at Teatro San Carlo di Napoli;Halévy’s La Tempesta at Wexford Festival.
FORTHCOMING PROJECTS: Kurt Weill’s Mahagonny at Teatro Petruzzelli di Bari; Don Pasquale at Teatro Bellini di Catania.
