Baritone
Pianist
Musicologist
Italian baritone Luca Bruno started his musical studies and career as pianist and musicologist. Upon earning six graduate degrees in Italy (Cosenza and Trento) and the United States (Dallas, Texas), with emphasis in Piano Performance (under the tutelage of renowned pianist Joaquin Achucarro), and Music Theory, he taught at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, University of Calabria, Naples and Cosenza Conservatories, where he currently is Lecturer in Chamber Music. Since 2014, he pursued his voice studies with soprano Renata Scotto, bass Roberto Scandiuzzi, and baritone Giuseppe Murmura. He has sung main roles from eighteenth-century operas (Trofonio in La grotta di Trofonio by Paisiello, Maestro in Salieri’s Prima la musica e dopo le parole, Count Almaviva in Mozart’s Nozze di Figaro), and from Donizetti’s (Malatesta, Belcore, Enrico) and Verdi’s most renowned works (Nabucco, Rigoletto, Giorgio Germont, Renato, Rodrigo). He has also broadly performed contemporary theatrical works by Bernstein, Britten, Carnini, Fortunato, Lombardi, Moro, Palermo, Portman, and Taggeo. He has sung in Italian “teatri di tradizione” (Ancona, Cosenza, Lecce, Orvieto, Reggio Calabria, Sassari, Trapani) and “enti lirici” (Teatrino di corte del San Carlo di Napoli, Teatro “Petruzzelli” di Bari, Torre del Lago Puccini). He also extensively performs Italian, German, French, English, and Spanish art-song and sacred music from Bach to the contemporary composers. He has performed the roles of Michele in Puccini’s Tabarro (Torre del Lago, December 2018), Alfio in Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana (January, March, and August 2019) and Escamillo in Bizet’s Carmen (February 2019). In March 2019, he performed his debuts as Marcello in Puccini’s Boheme (Managua, Nicaragua, in cooperation with Festival Pucciniano di Torre del lago) and in the title role of Verdi’s Nabucco (Cosenza). In May and June 2019, he has returned to the roles of Marcello (Azerbaigian Opera and Ballet in Baku) and Germont (Teatro del Casinò in Sanremo). In July and August 2019, he has staged Ping (Turandot) and Sonora (Fanciulla del West) in Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago, and Sharpless (Madama Butterfly) in Lucca and Prato. He has also sung extracts from the role of Ernesto in the first Italian modern performance of Giovanni Pacini’s Maria Regina d’Inghilterra (Viareggio). In September 2019, he has been invited by the Komitas Museum of Yerevan, Armenia to perform music by the composer, as the first non-Armenian singer to perform his music. He has recently returned to Ping, in the reopening nights of Chengdu National Theatre of China, and Moralès in Carmen (Lecce, with Jacopo Sipari di Pescasseroli as conductor). The Chuvash Opera and Ballet in Cheboksary (Russia) has invited Bruno as the only Italian baritone to participate in two Opera Gala Nights (November 26th, and December 1st, 2019) in honor of late baritone legend Dmitri Hvorostovsky.
2019-present Lecturer in Chamber Music, “Stanislao Giacomantonio” Conservatory, Cosenza, Italy
