Bass-Baritone
Gianluca Margheri — Italian Bass-Baritone
Italian bass-baritone acclaimed for his interpretations of Mozart, Rossini and Baroque repertoire.
Selected opera houses & festivals
- Royal Opera House
- Gran Teatre del Liceu
- Rossini Opera Festival
- Teatro Real Madrid
- Irish National Opera
- Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
Gianluca Margheri
Bel canto and beyond.
One of Italy's leading bass-baritones of his generation, Gianluca Margheri performs more than sixty roles at major opera houses and festivals across Europe and the Americas, spanning a repertoire from bel canto and Baroque masterpieces to Verdi and contemporary opera.
Upcoming engagements
Current and forthcoming performances across Europe.
- UPCOMING
Carmen — G. Bizet
Escamillo
Festival de San Lorenzo de El Escorial
San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain
12 September 2026
Conductor: Alondra de la ParraDirector: Bárbara Lluch
- UPCOMING
Tantum Ergo — G. Verdi
Bass soloist
Teatro di San Carlo
Napoli, Italia
24 October 2026
Conductor: Fabrizio Cassi
- UPCOMING
La Cenerentola — G. Rossini
Alidoro
Teatro di San Carlo
Napoli, Italia
20, 21, 23, 25, 27 October 2026
Conductor: Speranza ScappucciDirector: Damiano Michieletto
- UPCOMING
La Cenerentola — G. Rossini
Alidoro
La Monnaie / De Munt
Brussels, Belgium
16, 20, 23, 27, 30 December 2026
Conductor: Speranza ScappucciDirector: Daniel Kramer
Press
International Reviews
International critics have written:
“Gianluca Margheri’s noble-sounding Bajazet.”
The Guardian
Erica Jeal — Vivaldi — Bajazet — Royal Opera House / Irish National Opera — 2024
“Gianluca Margheri has a very sonorous, long and warm voice… Through his varied palette of colours and dynamics he embodies tenderness, reconciliation, majesty and authority with remarkable naturalness.”
Olyrix
Joël Heuillon — Monteverdi — Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria — Ravenna Festival — 2024
“Margheri’s bass-baritone was very well projected and mellow, statuesque physique perfectly suited the role.”
Bachtrack
Laura Servidei — Rossini — Zelmira — Rossini Opera Festival — 2025
“Then there was Gianluca Margheri, whose booming bass-baritone was very satisfying in the role of Basilio.”
Opera Canada
Aridane Lih — Rossini — Il barbiere di Siviglia — Opéra de Montréal — 2024
“Gianluca Margheri was also very impressive as the swaggering Belcore… He has a very powerful voice that projected effortlessly to the back of the theatre and was able to conjure rich dark vocal colours.”
Seen and Heard International
Roberto Beattie — Donizetti — L’elisir d’amore — Irish National Opera — 2025
Repertoire
More than sixty roles spanning four centuries of opera
- V. Bellini
- G. Bizet
- B. Britten
- F. Cilea
- D. Cimarosa
- S. Colasanti
- F. Donatoni
- G. Donizetti
- A. Dvořák
- C. W. Gluck
- G. F. Handel
- F. J. Haydn
- C. Monteverdi
- W. A. Mozart