Michele Pertusi is an Italian opera singer (bass) born in Parma on January 12, 1965.
He studied at the Conservatory of Parma with Mauro Uberti, and obtained an advanced degree in singing and piano. He also followed the teaching of Carlo Bergonzi, Arrigo Pola and Rodolfo Celetti. He began his career on December 19, 1984, at the municipal theater of Modena with the role of Silva in Ernani, at only 19 years old, after winning the "voci verdiane" competition. He quickly sang on the great Italian (Rome, Milan, Parma, Modena ...) and international (Paris, New York, Geneva, Staatsoper in Vienna, Berlin, Lyon, Brussels, Lausanne ...) stages where he tackled the great roles in the Verdean repertoire (Falstaff among others, for which he obtained a Grammy Award but also Oberto, conte di San bonifaccio, Verdi's first opera, in 2005), Mozartian (Leporello, Don Alfonso, Figaro ...), bel canto with Rossini (Alidoro, Assur, Mustafa ...); Bellini (I puritani, La sonnambula ...) and Donizetti (Lucia di Lamermoor and Don Pasquale among others). He also sings the role of Méphisto both in Faust (Gounod) and in La Damnation de Faust (Berlioz).
In 2016, he took on the role of Filippo II in Don Carlo in Parma. In 2017, he sang the role of Roger in Jerusalem by Verdi, also in Parma.
2023
as Federico II
2022
2021
as Oroveso
2021
as Filippo II
2020
2019
as Procida
2019
as vocal
2018
as Don Pasquale
2018
as Don Pasquale
2017
as Sparafucile
2017
as Gottardo
2015
as Zaccaria
2015
as Don Pasquale
2014
as Escamillo
2014
2012
as Gottardo
2011
as The Tutor
2010
2009
as Count Rodolfo
2009
as Pagano
2004
2002
as Alfonso Duca di Ferrara
2002
as Marino Faliero
2001
as Alidoro
1997
as Alidoro
1987
as Macbeth (bass) (singing voice)