Luca Bernard

(tenor)

EDUCATION AND WORK
Luca Bernard gained early experience on stage as a member of the Zürcher Sängerknaben, where he sang the role of the Second Boy in Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” at the Opernhaus Zürich. From 2013, he studied at the Zürich University of the Arts, initially piano with Prof. Eckart Heiligers. In June 2018, he graduated with a master’s degree in Opera Performance. Master classes with Brigitte Fassbaender, Christa Ludwig and Salvatore Fisichella, among others, gave him important singing and artistic impulses. From 2019 to 2021, Luca Bernard was a member of the Opernhaus Zürich’s International Opera Studio. He has also engaged in the opera productions of the Glyndebourne Festival and Maggio Musicale Fiorentino.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Luca Bernard is a study prize winner of the Prof. Armin Weltner Foundation and Migros Kulturprozent. He was a finalist of the International Othmar Schoeck Competition 2016, and as a result, he sang Ottokar in J. Strauss’ “Der Zigeunerbaron” at the Operettenbühne Hombrechtikon the next year. 

REPERTOIRE
Count Stanislaus (Zeller’s “Der Vogelhändler”)
Ottokar (J. Strauss’ “Der Zigeunerbaron”)
Ernesto (Donizetti’s “Don Pasquale”)
Guglielmo (Donizetti’s “Viva la Mamma”) 
Gaston, Giuseppe (Verdi’s “La traviata”) 
1st Priest (Mozart’s “The Magic Flute”)
Ferrando (Mozart’s “Così fan tutte”)
Fracasso (Mozart’s “La finta semplice”)
Jacquino (Beethoven’s “Fidelio”)
Scaramuccio (Strauss’ “Ariadne auf Naxos”)
Shepherd (Stravinsky’s “Oedipus Rex”)

Symphonic works:
Lucas (Haydn’s “The Seasons”)
Haydn’s “The Creation”
Bach’s “St. Matthew’s Passion”
Mozart’s Requiem