Italian bass-baritone Gianluca Margheri has established an international career particularly associated with the Mozart, Rossini and bel canto repertoire. He has appeared at leading opera houses and festivals including the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Teatro Real Madrid, Gran Teatre del Liceu, Rossini Opera Festival, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma and Irish National Opera.

His wide repertoire encompasses roles including Don Giovanni, Guglielmo in Così fan tutte, Figaro and Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro, Escamillo in Carmen, Alidoro in La Cenerentola, Lord Sidney in Il viaggio a Reims, Belcore in L’elisir d’amore, Raimondo in Lucia di Lammermoor, Talbot in Maria Stuarda and Banco in Macbeth.

2026/27 SEASON

Gianluca Margheri opens the 2026/27 season as Escamillo in Carmen at the Teatro Auditorio San Lorenzo de El Escorial in Madrid, alongside Gaëlle Arquez and Arturo Chacón-Cruz, conducted by Alondra de la Parra.

He subsequently appears as Alidoro in Rossini’s La Cenerentola at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, conducted by Speranza Scappucci in Damiano Michieletto’s production. In December, he returns to La Monnaie in Brussels in the same role, again under Speranza Scappucci, in a new production directed by Daniel Kramer.

In spring 2027, Margheri returns to the Teatro Verdi di Trieste as San Dionigi in Fabio Vacchi’s Jeanne Dark, conducted by Alessandro Cadario and directed by Paolo Valerio.

RECENT HIGHLIGHTS

Recent highlights include Leucippo in Rossini’s Zelmira at the Rossini Opera Festival, Belcore in L’elisir d’amore with Irish National Opera, Don Basilio in Il barbiere di Siviglia at the Opéra de Montréal, the title role of Verdi’s Attila in Izmir and Cadmus in Handel’s Semele at Theater Lübeck.

Margheri has appeared at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden as Bajazet in Vivaldi’s Bajazet and at the Teatro Real Madrid as Villotto in Haydn’s La vera costanza. Further career highlights include appearances at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma and Rossini Opera Festival.

Throughout his career, he has worked with conductors and directors including Zubin Mehta, James Conlon, Jesús López-Cobos, Robert Carsen, Ottavio Dantone, George Petrou and Graham Vick.

Born in Florence, Margheri began his professional career in 2004 and won the Toti Dal Monte International Singing Competition in 2009.

SELECTED ROLES

Alidoro · La Cenerentola

Teatro di San Carlo · La Monnaie

Belcore · L’elisir d’amore

Irish National Opera