Luciano Ganci

LUCIANO GANCI began his musical training in the papal children's choir of the Sistine Chapel. He initially studied piano, organ and urban planning, then also singing. He trained as an opera singer primarily with Domenico Bartolucci and completed further studies with Mirella Freni and Otello Felici, among others. In 2007, he was a semi-finalist at Domingo's Operalia competition in Paris and won 1st prize and the Audience and Critics' Prize at the Concorso Ottavio Ziino in 2009. Since then, he has performed regularly at the most important opera houses in Europe as well as in Asia, Canada and Russia. He has sung the central tenor roles in Gianni Schicchi, La bohème, Madama Butterfly, La traviata, Nabucco, Il corsaro, Il trovatore, Un ballo in maschera, Tosca, Giovanna d'Arco, Attila, Luisa Miller, Macbeth, Don Carlo, Stiffelio, Cavalleria rusticana, Pagliacci, Andrea Chénier and L'amico Fritz, among others. An engagement for the opening of the new theater in Astana, Kazakhstan, enabled him to appear as a guest at the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg. He also appeared in Rossini's Moses in 2015 - a collaboration with EXPO Milan. In addition to numerous engagements in Italy (La Scala Milan, Arena di Verona, San Carlo in Naples, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Macerata), he has sung in Valencia, at the Licue in Barcelona, in Budapest, Salzburg, Graz, Berlin, Antwerp, Moscow, Beijing, Japan and South Korea.