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Gianluca Buratto (born in Cernusco sul Naviglio) is an Italian opera singer (bass).
Buratto first studied saxophone and clarinet before completing his vocal studies at the conservatory "Giuseppe Verdi" in Milan. He won the International Singing Competition Ferruccio Tagliavini in Deutschlandsberg and the Rotary Prize for Vocal Chamber Music in Milan. He performs regularly with the Claudio Monteverdi Choir Crema under Bruno Gini, dedicated to the polyphonic repertoire of the 17th and 18th centuries and performs works by Bach, Buxtehude, Campion, Cornelius, Haydn and Rossi.
Buratto made his debut on the opera stage in 2009 in the world premiere of Solbiati's Il carro e i canti at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste. This was followed by minor roles in Stravinsky's Pulcinella, Cestis Le disgrazie d'amore, Donizetti's Maria Stuarda, Mercadante's Virginia and Puccini's La Bohème at the Wexford Opera Festival and at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Ambrosini's world premiere of Il Killer di parole, the doctor in Macbeth under Riccardo Muti at the Salzburg Festival 2011, at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, in Rome and Chicago, I due Foscari in Valencia, Le nozze di Figaro in Barcelona and Giulio Cesare in Egitto with Il complesso barocco (also on CD).
In the concert hall Buratto performed with the Bach Consort Vienna under Rubén Dubrovsky in the Vienna Musikverein and the Psalm Festival in Graz, took over the bass solos in Bach's B Minor Mass with Jordi Savall in Madrid and Barcelona, in La Betulia liberata with Riccardo Muti in Salzburg and Ravenna, as well as in Mozart's Mass in C Minor at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome under Kent Nagano. In the Theater an der Wien he has appeared in three concertante Handel productions: 2011 as Meraspe in Giulio Cesare in Egitto, 2013 as Argante in Rinaldo and in 2014 as Meraspe in Admeto, re di Tessaglia. In 2016 he was seen as a ghost and priest at the Bregenz Festival in Amleto.
