Giacomo Pieracci

The bass Giacomo Pieracci was born in Reggio Emilia. He initially studied oboe, before concentrating on opera singing. In 2022 he graduated from his singing studies with Marina Comparato, and also earned a diploma in orchestral conducting with Marco Boni. He went on to further studies with Gabriele Lombardi and participated in masterclasses with Mariella Devia, Renato Bruson, Carmela Remigio and Roberto De Candia.

In 2021 he won the international singing competition of the Teatro Lirico Speri­mentale ‘A Belli’ in Spoleto. He has per­formed roles including the Commendatore (Don Giovanni), Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro), Angelotti (Tosca), the Bonze (Madama Butterfly), Simone (Gianni Schicchi) and Norton in Rossini’s La cambiale di matri­monio.

Giacomo Pieracci has an intense com­mitment to early music, and has appeared in operas and oratorios by composers including Monteverdi, Cavalli, Stradella, Rossi, Bach and Vitali. He has also sung in works by Benjamin Britten, Gino Negri and Manuel de Falla, and in world premieres of compositions by Salvatore Sciarrino, Fio­renzo Carpi, Alessandro Solbiati, Voris Sarris, Riccardo Perugini, Martino Traversa, Virginia Guastella and Fabian Lévy.

His engagements have taken him to venues including the opera houses of Reg­gio Emilia, Modena, Cremona, Spoleto, Brescia and Bergamo, the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza, the Opéra de Monte-Carlo, the Festival Aperto, the Monteverdi Festival, the Valletta Baroque Festival and the Sagra Musicale Malatestiana in Rimini.

Ensembles with which he has performed include Il Canto di Orfeo, the Ensemble Prometeo, the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, Spira Mirabilis, the Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini, laBarocca, the Camerata Strumentale di Prato and Cremona Antiqua. He has worked with conductors such as Marco Angius, Michele Gamba, Jonathan Webb, Antonio Greco and Jacopo Brusa and with directors including Roberto Catalano, Pier Luigi Pizzi, Jacopo Spirei, Henning Brockhaus, Daniele Spanò, Luca Brinchi and the collective Anagoor.