Luca Pisaroni and mezzosoprano Rihab Chaieb were featured in performance on the April 25 episode of Houston Life. The segment features Luca and Rihab singing the Da Ponte/Mozart duet “We are slaves” from Tarik O’Regan’s new opera The Phoenix. The live performance also featured the talents of pianist Blair Salter.
This month marks the world premiere of composer Tarik O’Regan’s The Phoenix, starring Luca Pisaroni and Thomas Hampson at the Houston Grand Opera. Pisaroni and Hampson play the different ages of Lorenzo Da Ponte as a group of singing actors come together to create a stage adaptation about the colorful life of the scandalous librettist […]
The Opera Queen The last time I spoke with Luca Pisaroni, he was in Toronto with his beloved Lenny and Tristan, preparing to sing title role in Maometto II. The 1820 Rossini opera is a musically extravagant showcase of high-wire vocalism, demands which Pisaroni met with both cool panache and white-hot intensity. The Italian bass baritone has a […]