Massimiliano Pisapia

A Turin tenor who studied with Franco Corelli and won the Giulietta Simionato and Tito Gobbi competitions, Massimiliano Pisapia made his debut as Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly and has since sung Rodolfo, Radamès, Cavaradossi, the Duke of Mantua, Edgardo and Gabriele Adorno. The houses take in La Scala, the Vienna and Hamburg state operas, the Bavarian State Opera, Zurich Opera, the Gran Teatre del Liceu, the Arena di Verona and the Teatro Colón. In August 2004 he sang in La bohème on an Italian open-air tour.