Francesco Demuro Tenor

Francesco Demuro was born in Porto Torres, Sardinia in January 1978. Since he was a child, he remembers his constant passion for music and singing. By the age of ten, Demuro made his first stage appearance, and by the age of twelve, he had joined the Minicantadores (group of young singers of the traditional Sardinian song). When he is fourteen he begins to perform occasionally with the professionists and becomes one of them in 1994. He immediately catches the audience’s attention ( part of which had seen him sing as an adolescent).

Demuro’s voice has an extraordinary timber and is characterized by an incredible clearness. This combined with his desire to study and perform rarely heard traditional Sardinian song, has made him unique. He has a voice of impressive extension. Greatly demanded by everyone he has gained roles as a key protagonist in the last ten years.

Between 2003 and 2004 he has studied in the Conservatory in Sassari, and then followed to enrol himself as a private student at the Conservatory in Cagliari where he received lessons by the soprano Elisabetta Scanu with whom he still studies. Demuro has made various recordings, appeared in local TV shows and sung several television theme songs for the broadcasting Videolina and Sardegna1.

His debut in Parma with Luisa Miller is a great success for the critics and the audience and it allows him to obtain many invites by important Italian and foreign theatres, he sings Luisa Miller again shortly after in Sassari. Again he debuts in Turin with Rigoletto which he also sings in Hong Kong in a Tournè with the Theatre of Parma and Simon Boccanegra at the Megaron in Athens, Rigoletto and Rosenkavalier in Dresden. He obtained a great success singing Rigoletto at Festival Verdi in Parma and La Boheme in Bari.

He obtained great reviews from public and critics in Roberto di Devereux at Las Palmas theatre and in La Traviata at Teatro Municipal in Santiago (Cile), Rigoletto in Parma and Pechino.

He made his debut in the USA singing La Traviata at Seattle Opera to great acclaim.

Recently, he made his debut in Tokyo at Suntory Hall with Così fan tutte.

Future engagements include: Traviata and Rosenkavalier in Dresden, La Traviata and La Boheme at Wiener Staatsoper, Gianni Schicchi at Coven Garden conducted by Antonio Pappano, a new Rigoletto in San Francisco conducted by Nicola Luisotti, La Traviata in Frankfurt, Lucia di Lammermoor in Hamburg, Elisir D’amore at Theatre La Scala in Milan, a new production of Rigoletto in Wien directed by Luc Bondy conducted by Omer Wellber.

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