Michele Pertusi

MICHELE PERTUSI comes from Parma, where he studied piano and voice. In 2005 he won the Grammy Award for the best opera recording in the title role of Verdi's Falstaff under Sir Colin Davis. In 1995 he was awarded the »Abbiati International Prize«. His recording of Il turco in Italia under Riccardo Chailly won the Gramophone Award. He was also awarded the Golden Medal as »Cultural Benemeritus« by the President of the Italian Republic. In 2018, he was awarded the prestigious »Rodolfo Celletti« prize at the Festival della Valle d'Itria in Martina Franca. He has collaborated with most of the world's leading conductors and has performed at the most important opera houses, concert halls and festivals around the world. Recent projects have included Medea at the New York Met, Nabucco and Aida at the Arena di Verona, Moïse et Pharaon in Aix-en-Provence, Turandot in Turin and Rome, I Lombardi at La Fenice, Norma in Parma and at La Monnaie in Brussels, Luisa Miller in Rome, I Capuleti e i Montecchi at La Scala in Milan, Les Huguenots in Geneva.