Repertoire
Roles
A selection of the roles Saimir Pirgu performs, by composer.
The voice
Verdi, Mozart, Puccini and the French and Russian repertoire
Verdi
Riccardo, Un ballo in maschera. Gabriele Adorno, Simon Boccanegra. Don Carlo, Don Carlo. Il Duca di Mantova, Rigoletto. Rodolfo, Luisa Miller. Ernani, Ernani. Alfredo Germont, La Traviata. Oronte, I Lombardi alla prima crociata. Macduff, Macbeth.
Mozart
Idomeneo, Idomeneo. Don Ottavio, Don Giovanni. Tito Vespasiano, La Clemenza di Tito. Tamino, Die Zauberflote.
Puccini
Rodolfo, La Boheme. B.F. Pinkerton, Madama Butterfly.
Donizetti
Edgardo di Ravenswood, Lucia di Lammermoor. Nemorino, L'Elisir d'Amore.
The French repertoire
Don Jose, Carmen (Bizet). Hoffmann, Les Contes d'Hoffmann (Offenbach). Romeo, Romeo et Juliette (Gounod). Faust, Faust (Gounod). Faust, La damnation de Faust (Berlioz). Werther, Werther (Massenet). Chevalier Des Grieux, Manon (Massenet).
The Russian and Slavic repertoire
Lenskij, Evgenij Onegin (Tchaikovsky). Godefroy de Vaudemont, Iolanta (Tchaikovsky). Paolo, Francesca da Rimini (Rachmaninov). Shepherd, Krol Roger (Szymanowski).
Bellini, Strauss and the verismo composers
Tebaldo, I Capuleti e i Montecchi (Bellini). Der Rosenkavalier (Strauss). Maurizio, Adriana Lecouvreur (Cilea). Federico, L'Arlesiana (Cilea). Fritz, L'amico Fritz (Mascagni).
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