Multitalented musician and singer, Luigi has distinguished himself as one of the foremost interpreters of the repertoire of the 17th and 18th century, working with leading conductors and Baroque ensembles.
He sang Monteverdi’s Orfeo (Caronte) and Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in patria (Il Tempo and Nettuno) conducted by Rinaldo Alessandrini and directed by Robert Wilson for la Scala, and returned to the roles for the Teatro Real in Madrid in a William Christie/Pier Luigi Pizzi production. With Jean-Christophe Spinosi, he took the stage as Seneca in L’Incornazione di Poppea at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires.
His Händel roles include Ariodate (Serse) in Madrid, Moscow and Barcelona under the direction of Jean-Christophe Spinosi as well as in Beaune under Ottavio Dantone; Polifemo (Aci, Galatea e Polifemo) with Giovanni Antonini at the Salzburg Festival, and under Ruben Jais at London Wigmore Hall; Leone (Tamerlano) at the Teatro Real in Madrid with Paul McCreesh and Graham Vick; Argante (Rinaldo) conducted by Ottavio Dantone and staged by Jacopo Spirei in several Italian theatres; The King of Scotland (Ariodante) in a Gianluca Capuano/David Alden production at the Bolshoi Theatre.
Other career highlights include the title role in Le Nozze di Figaro at the Nice Opera; Le Grand Inquisiteur in Don Carlos at the Hamburg Staatsoper, Alcandro in Vivaldi’s Olimpiade with Jean-Christophe Spinosi at Paris Théâtre des Champs-Elysées; Sarastro in Die Zauberflöte at Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse; Polyphème in Lully’s Acis et Galatée alongside Federico Maria Sardelli for the Florence Teatro del Maggio Musicale.
Recent and forthcoming engagements include Handel’s Messiah under Alessandro De Marchi in Innsbruck where he will also take the stage as Alcandro in Vivaldi’s Olimpiade, and Aci, Galatea e Polifemo (Polifemo) at the Halle Festival. Luigi reunites with Jean-Christophe Spinosi for Mozart’s Great Mass in C minor and Vivaldi’s Orlando furioso (Astolfo) at Théâtre des Champs-Elysées. Rouen sees him performing Serse (Ariodate) alongside David Bates and La Clemenza di Tito (Publio) under Ben Glassberg.
