Giorgio Berrugi has won accolades throughout the world for his radiant, warm Italianate sound, his exceptional musicality and the expressive nuance of his interpretations.
Berrugi has performed at many of the world’s leading opera houses, concert venues and music festivals such as the Teatro alla Scala, Royal Opera House London, Lincoln Center in New York, Theater of Champs-Elysées in Paris, Deutsche Oper in Berlin, the San Francisco Opera, the Gewandhaus Leipzig, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Tokyo’s Suntory Hall, London’s Wigmore Hall, the Savonlinna Festival, Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome and the Arena di Verona. He has collaborated with eminent conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Christian Thielemann, Fabio Luisi, Andriss Nelsons, Gustavo Dudamel, Daniel Oren, Gianandrea Noseda, Pinchas Steinberg, Nicola Luisotti, Myung-Whun Chung, Manfred Honeck, Roberto Abbado and Jaap van Zweden.
Highlights of recent seasons for the Italian tenor include 120th anniversary La Bohème in Turin, Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette at the Arena di Verona, Simon Boccanegra at Teatro alla Scala, Der Rosenkavalier in London; as well as performances as soloist in Verdi’s Requiem in New York with the London Symphony Orchestra, Milan with the Filarmonica della Scala, at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, in Rome for Accademia di Santa Cecilia, in Lucerne, Hong Kong, Manchester, Dallas, Valencia and Riga.