Italian baritone Luca Salsi made his Royal Opera debut in 2016 as Giorgio Germont (La traviata). Salsi was born in Parma and studied at the Conservatorio di Musica Arrigo Boito there. He sings for companies including the Metropolitan Opera, La Scala, Milan, Bayerische Staatsoper, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Teatro Real, Madrid, Liceu, Barcelona, Rome Opera, La Fenice, Venice, Teatro Regio, Turin, Teatro di San Carlo, Naples, Washington National Opera, Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires, Teatro Municipal São Paulo, Arena di Verona, Maggio Musicale, Florence and the Salzburg and Verbier festivals. He has sung Giorgio Germont for the Metropolitan Opera, Salzburg Festival, Bayerische Staatsoper, Paris Opera and Teatro dell'Opera di Roma. His other Verdi repertory includes the title roles in Nabucco, Macbeth, Simon Boccanegra, Rigoletto and Falstaff, as well as Don Carlo (Ernani), Francesco Foscari (I due Foscari), Count di Luna (Il trovatore), Renato (Un ballo in maschera), Don Carlo di Vargas (La forza del destino), Posa (Don Carlo).