Italian baritone Davide Luciano was born into a family of musicians in Benevento and studied with Gioacchino Zarrelli, with whom he continues to work. His engagements in 2019/20 and 2020/21 have included Belcore (L’elisir d’amore) for his debut at La Scala, Milan, Guglielmo (Così fan tutte) and Count Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro) for the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam, Marcello (La bohème) at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo, Malatesta (Don Pasquale) at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Figaro (Il barbiere di Siviglia) in a production by the Rome Opera at the city’s Circus Maximus and Guglielmo and Ford (Falstaff) at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia. Other recent highlights include his Metropolitan Opera debut as Belcore and his return to the house as Schaunard (La bohème), his first Count Almaviva at the Opéra national du Rhin in Strasbourg and subsequent appearances in the same role at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, Schaunard at the 2018 Tanglewood Festival with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Andris Nelsons, Rossini’s Figaro at the Teatro Regio in Turin and for his debut with the Dutch National Opera, Silvio (Pagliacci) at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples and Marcello for his debut with the Bavarian State Opera in Munich.
As a member of the Accademia Rossiniana, Davide Luciano appeared as Don Profondo (Il viaggio a Reims) at the 2014 Rossini Opera Festival, since when he has returned to Pesaro on a regular basis as Haly (L’italiana in Algeri), as Batone (L’inganno felice), as Macrobio (La pietra del paragone), as Figaro in 2018 and as Buralicchio (L’equivoco stravagante) in 2019.
Davide Luciano appears regularly at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, where his roles have included Don Giovanni, Rossini’s Figaro, Marcello, Belcore, Cecil (Maria Stuarda), Don Profondo and Nottingham in concert performances of Roberto Devereux. Past engagements also include Mozart’s Figaro at the Teatro Real in Madrid and at the Glyndebourne Festival, Leporello (Don Giovanni) at the Norwegian National Opera in Oslo and at the Theatro Municipal in São Paulo, Rossini’s Figaro at the Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville, at the Dresden Semperoper, at the Caracalla Baths in Rome and at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Malatesta at La Fenice, Guglielmo at the Norwegian National Opera, Don Alvaro (Il viaggio a Reims) at the Royal Danish Opera, Silvio in São Paulo, Gernando in Jommelli’s L’isola disabitata in Naples and Pacuvio (La pietra del paragone) at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. Following his Salzburg Festival debut as Don Giovanni, Davide Luciano’s plans include Rossini’s Figaro in Vienna, New York and Mahón, Sharpless (Madama Butterfly) in New York and Munich, Don Giovanni in Liège and Belcore in Vienna and New York.
