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| | Gallo Lucio | | baritono |   
| Born in Taranto, Italian baritone Lucio Gallo graduated at the «Giuseppe Verdi» Conservatory of Turin with Elio Battaglia. He is a regular guest of the world's leading opera theatres and concert halls. He has been heard by opera and concert audiences in New York (Metropolitan Opera), San Francisco, Vienna (Staatsoper, Konzerthaus, Musikverein), London (Royal Opera House-Covent Garden), Berlin (Staatsoper, Philharmonic, Deutsche Oper), Hamburg, Munich, Peking, Tokyo, Zurich, Brussels, Salzburg, Tel Aviv, Stuttgart, Boston, Milan, Verona, Turin, Venice, Bologna, Florence, Rome, Genoa, Parma, Cagliari, Siena, Ferrara, Macerata, Pesaro. Lucio Gallo has collaborated with such conductors as Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Chailly, Myung-Whun Chung, Colin Davis, Gianandrea Gavazzeni, Bernard Haitink, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Antonio Pappano, Carlo Rizzi, Wolfgang Sawallisch and Jeffrey Tate, performing principal roles of Mozart (Guglielmo, Figaro, Conte di Almaviva, Don Giovanni, Leporello), Rossini (Figaro, Dandini, Lord Sidney, Don Alvaro, Batone), and by Verdi (Paolo Albiani, Posa, Ford), and Belcore, Malatesta, Marcello, Sharpless, Escamillo, Don Pizarro, Rangoni. |
| Lucio Gallo's recordings include the Conte di Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro with Zubin Mehta for Sony; a live video recording of the same opera, this time as Figaro with Abbado and Don Alvaro in Il viaggio a Reims, also with Abbado. For Deutsche Grammophone he recorded Bartolo in Il barbiere di Siviglia and the title role in Le nozze di Figaro, again with Abbado. For Fonit Cetra he recorded a recital of music by Tosti and Schumann, another one of Respighi's Liriche and Wolf-Ferrari's Italienisches Liederbuch. |
| Highlights of his extraordinary career include the title role in Don Giovanni at the Teatro alla Scala in 1993 with Riccardo Muti; Batone in L'inganno felice at the Rossini Opera Festival of Pesaro in 1994 with Carlo Rizzi; Leporello in Don Giovanni at the Royal Opera House-Covent Garden in 1996, the Bayerische Staatsoper (1998) and at Opernhaus Zurich, under the baton of Harnoncourt (2001); L'elisir d'amore at the Metropolitan Opera in 1995; Lazarus at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (1995); Scarpia in Tosca debuted in Turin in 1995, and then performed at the Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova (1999) and at La Monnaie in Brussels (2000); Franck's Les Béatitudes in Milan and Brahms?s Ein deutsches Requiem in Verona, both with Gavazzeni; Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor with the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Zubin Mehta (1995); Dandini in La Cenerentola at the San Francisco Opera (1995) and at Covent Garden (2001); Marcello in La Bohème in the 1996 «centennial» production at the Teatro Regio di Torino, with Mirella Freni and Luciano Pavarotti; the title role in Il prigioniero at both the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and the Salzburg Festival with Zubin Mehta (1996); the title role in a new Götz Friedrich production of Evgenij Onegin for the Deutsche Oper Berlin; Carmina Burana in Florence with Mehta (1997); Escamillo in Carmen at the Arena di Verona; his debut as Rodrigo in Don Carlos for Radio Vara in Amsterdam (1998); Ford in Falstaff at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin with Claudio Abbado (1998), at the Teatro Comunale di Ferrara again with Abbado, and at the Lyric Opera of Chicago under the baton of Antonio Pappano (1999), at Bayerische Staatsoper and in Berlin with the Berliner Philharmonisches Orchester and Claudio Abbado (2000/1), and at Osterfestspiele Salzburg (2001); Sharpless in Madama Butterfly at the Metropolitan in 1998 and with Boston Symphony Orchestra led by Seiji Osawa in 1999; Malatesta in Don Pasquale in Bologna; Lescaut in Manon Lescaut at the Teatro alla Scala in 1998 with Muti; the title role in Le nozze di Figaro at the Théâtre La Monnaie de Bruxelles in 1998 (with Antonio Pappano) and in 2001; Wozzeck, debuted in 1999 at the Teatro Massimo di Palermo, being the first Italian singer to sing this role in the original language; Giorgio Germont in La traviata in Santander (1999) and at the Teatro dell?Opera di Roma (2000); Paolo in Simon Boccanegra with the Berliner Philarmonisches Orchester in Berlin (1999), at the Osterfestspiele of Salzburg with Claudio Abbado (2000), and at the Teatro Comunale di Ferrara, at the Teatro Regio di Parma and in Bolzano, again with Abbado (2001); Golaud in Pélleas et Mélisande at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna (2000); the title role in Macbeth, debuted in Berlin in 2000; Amonasro in Aida in Macerata (2000 and 2001). |
| Lucio Gallo opened the 2001/2 season with his much awaited debut in Otello at the Lyric Opera of Chicago and in Berlin (Staatsoper unter den Linden); successful performances in the roles of Amonasro at the Teatro Massimo Bellini di Catania, of Simone and Paolo Albiani in Simon Boccanegra at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, and of Macbeth and Leporello at Staatsoper unter den Linden in Berlin, have followed. A successful interpreter of the role of Rigoletto in Palermo and at the Arena Sferisterio of Macerata, Lucio Gallo has recently made several important debuts: he debuted at the Opéra de Marseille with Macbeth, at the Opera Pacific of Los Angeles with Evgenij Onegin, and at Teatro Lirico di Cagliari as Jago in Otello. At the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, in November 2002, he made his much awaited debut in the role of Friedrich von Telramund in Lohengrin, under the baton of Daniele Gatti and staged by Daniele Abbado. |
| During the current season, Lucio Gallo has also returned to Munich for Manon Lescaut, Falstaff and Le nozze di Figaro (Figaro), and to the Covent Garden for a new production of Madama Butterfly (Sharpless). |
| Highlights of Lucio Gallo's future engagements are Otello at the Royal Opera House-Covent Garden, Falstaff at the Bayerische Staatsoper and in Dresden, Le nozze di Figaro and Don Carlo in Florence, Macbeth at the Teatro Massimo di Palermo and at Staatsoper unter den Linde in Berlin, Il prigioniero and Der Fliegende Holländer at the Oper Frankfurt, Tosca in Berlin and at Hamburgische Staatsoper, La fanciulla del West at Teatro Regio di Torino, only to name a few. |
| Lucio Gallo teaches singing at the Accademia Musicale Pescarese and at the «Hugo Wolf» School in Acquasparta. |
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