LUCA SALSI

Luca Salsi was born in Parma in 1975 and studied there at the Conservatorio Arrigo Boito with Lucetta Bizzi and at the Accademia Rossiniana with Alberto Zedda. He made his début in 1996 in Bologna in La scala di seta, continuing with a number of further engagements. In 2000 he won first prize in the Viotti International Song Competition, and in the same year appeared as Leporello at the Bassano Festival, as Guglielmo in Cagliari, and in Bologna as Antonio in Rossini’s Il viaggio a Reims. He later appeared inIl barbiere di Siviglia in Naples and, at the invitation of Placido Domingo, at Washington Opera in Le nozze di Figaro. He has appeared as guest artist at Wexford, Garsington, Montpellier and Genoa and won great success as Riccardo in I Puritani in a Japanese tour with the Bologna Teatro Comunale.

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