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Giacomo Prestia is an Italian operatic bass.
He made his debut with ALZIRA di Verdi in Fidenza in 1991. Since then, he has embarked on a brilliant career that saw him protagonist on the biggest stages in the world: Teatro alla Scala, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Opera National de Paris, Wiener Staatsoper, Opernhaus Zurich, Teatro Real de Madrid, Liceu de Barcelona, the two theatres in Berlin, Teatro Colon de Buenos Aires, the Teatro comunale in Bologna, San Carlo of Naples, the Philharmonic of Berlin with the famous orchestra of Berlin, the Teatro Regio di Parma, Massimo of Palermo. In the course of his career he has collaborated with Claudio Abbado, Myung-Whun Chung, Antonio Pappano, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Gianandrea Noseda, George Pretre, Renato Palumbo, Daniele Gatti, Daniel Barenboim, Daniel Oren and Nello Santi, Bruno Campanella, Maurizio Benini, Michele Mariotti, Jader Bignamini, Francesco Pasqualetti, Alain Altinoglu.
Among the successes of recent seasons include the debut in I Vespri Siciliani at the Teatro Regio di Parma, Macbeth in Bilbao and Montecarlo, Aida for the opening 74° Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, at the Teatro alla Scala of Milan, Liceu of Barcelona, at the Paris Opera and at the Arena di Verona, Norma in Bari and Turin, Lucia di Lammermoor and the Masnadieri in Naples, Don Carlo in Vienna, Berlin, Turin, Modena and Piacenza, The Force of Destiny for his debut at Sydney, Simon Boccanegra at the Budapest, Parma, and Turin, Les Troyens conducted by Antonio Pappano and directed by David McVicar, at the Scala, Milan, verdi's Simon Boccanegra at la Fenice in Venice under the direction of Myung-Whun Chung, Carlo, Melbourne and Berlin, and the opening of the opera season in 2015-16 with Aida in Torino, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda, directed by William Friedkin, Norm, Naples, directed by Nello Santi, Mephistopheles in the circuit of Pisa, Lucca, Rovigo, directed by Enrico Stinchelli and directed by Francesco Pasqualetti, Simone Boccanegra in Las Palmas, and in Sydney, directed by Renato Palumbo. In 2017 he played Ramfis in Aida at la Monnaie Brussels directed by Alain Altinoglu, directed by Stathis Livathinos, Don Carlo at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, Aida in Macerata, in Gstaad with Gianandrea Noseda and the London Simphonie and Oman with the masses of the art of the Teatro Regio Torino under the baton of maestro Noseda.
Soon will be Sparafucile in Rigoletto in Parma for the 50 years of career of Leo Nucci, Alvise Badoero in the Circuit of the theaters of Piacenza-Modena-Reggio Emilia and Banco in Macbeth in Liege.