Tenor
Biography
Dramatic Italian roles are the territory of the tenor Gianluca Zampieri, who spent part of 2002 on the German touring circuit with Opera Classica, in a company that included Monica Minarelli, Stefania Scolastici, Massimiliano Drapello, Anna Carnovali, Stefano Anselmi and Ornella Giacomi. Born in Venice, he won the Mattia Battistini competition at Rieti, and his parts include Otello, Radamès, Manrico, Canio and Andrea Chénier along with Wagner and Czech opera. In 2005 he sang the title role of Strauss's Guntram in Catania and Laca in Jenūfa in Prague, and his singing in Alfano's Cyrano de Bergerac brought him the Czech Thalia Award for 2007; Siegfried and Tristan at the Tyrolean Festival in Erl and Hermann in The Queen of Spades in Brno came afterwards.