Marco Nisticò, baritone

• Germont (La traviata)
• Giacomo (Giovanna d'Arco)

Mr. Nisticò made his Sarasota Opera debut in 2008 as Francesco Foscari in Verdi's I due Foscari and returned to sing Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia in the Fall of that year and Rodrigue in the 2009 Winter Opera Fesitival production of Don Carlos. He has sung a variety of baritone roles with New York City Opera, including Sharpless in Madama Butterfly, Marcello and Schaunard in La bohème, Prudenzio in Il Viaggio a Reims, Zurga in Les Pecheurs de Perles and Morales in Carmen.

Recent and upcoming performances include Sharpless in Madama Butterfly with the Guadalajara Opera in Mexico; Melitone in La forza del destino and Dulcamara in L’elisir d’amore with the Caramoor Festival; Bonaventura in Hayden’s Il mondo della luna with Gotham Chamber Opera; a repeat of Dulcamara with Toledo Opera and Marcello in La bohème in Naples, Florida.

In Europe he has appeared as Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia with the Wexford Festival Opera, Ireland, a role he also performed in Bologna, Amsterdam and on tour in The Netherlands; Taddeo in L’Italiana in Algieri with Associazione Lirica Concertistica Italiana in Milan; Ford in Falstaff with the William Walton Foundation in Ischia and Starveling in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Teatro di San Carlo in Naples.

Mr. Nisticò has also performed with the Florida Symphony Orchestra, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Opera de Monte-Carlo, European Union Opera and Theatre des Champs-Elysées.