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
La Cenerentola — G. Rossini
Alidoro
Teatro di San Carlo
Napoli, Italia
20, 21, 23, 25, 27 October 2026
Conductor: Speranza ScappucciDirector: Damiano Michieletto
- 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
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 — 2022
“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
“Gianluca Margheri as Escamillo performed with rich, dark vocal colors […] giving his voice drama, authority, or even the sinister and dangerous shades the plot required. At the same time his voice was perfectly focused and easily cut through the dense orchestral texture, reaching the farthest rows of the Auditorio El Escorial without visible effort.”OperaWire
Galina Altman — Bizet — Carmen — ESCENA Escorial — 2026
“Voz de timbres oscuros, ricos y muy resonantes, destacando su capacidad para proyectar fuerza sin perder el control de las dinámicas ni los matices musicales.”Platea Magazine
Víctor Mourelle — Bizet — Carmen — ESCENA Escorial — 2026
“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
