Tenor Gino Lucchetti has performed roles with Seattle Opera, Seattle Symphony, Tacoma Opera, Kitsap Opera, Bellevue Opera, Lyric Opera Northwest, Hans Wolf Memorial Operetta, Everett Opera, Seattle Concert opera, Puget Sound Concert Opera, Black Box Theater, and the Seattle Gilbert and Sullivan Society. Recent roles include The New Papa for the world premier of Daren Hagan’s “The Cradle Song,” Rodolfo in La Boheme, Manrico in Il Trovatore, Canio in I Pagliacci, The Duke in Rigoletto, Faust in Gound’s, Pollione in Norma, Turridu in Cavalleria Rusticana), Don Jose (Carmen), Edgardo (Lucia di Lammermoor), Alfredo (Die Fledermaus), Florestan (Fidelio), Dick Johnson (La Fanciulla del West), Macduff (Macbeth), Lindoro (L’Italiana in Algieri), Guglielmo “The Tenor” (Viva la Mamma), Kaspar (Amahl and the Night Visitors). Has performed all the major Gilbert and Sullivan lead tenor roles.
Gino was selected by Seattle Symphony as one of three Pacific Northwest singers to participate in a public master class taught by the legendary soprano Jane Eaglen who called his “high notes so natural and gorgeous that no one should mess with them.”
In oratorio, Gino has performed the Verdi Requiem, Saint-Saen’s Christmas Oratorio, Handel’s Messiah, Rossini’s Stabat Matter and Mendelssohn’s Elijah. Of his Verdi, Dale Burrow’s noted, “Gino Lucchetti’s tenor added the robust, life-loving, lyrical qualities that trademark Verdi’s operas.”
He is a popular featured concert artist singing a wide range both operatic and popular selections in repeat performances for the Seattle and Walla Walla Italian Festivals, the Gemperle Gala (for Seattle Opera Education Fund), Seattle Opera Guild Previews and Galas, Austrian Club of Washington, Bloedel Reserve Summer Concerts (Bainbridge Island), Bumbershoot and Seattle Folklife Festivals and in special guest appearances for Opera Coeur D’Alene, Lake Tahoe Summer Arts Festival, Tacoma Old Town, Artopia, Seattle Camarata, Bremerton Art Visions, and the Port Gardner Bay Chamber Music Series.
His recordings include Howard Hanson’s Merry Mount (Gerard Schwarz and the Seattle Symphony), La Serenata and Bravo Fortissimo! and commercials for Starbuck’s. In addition to his music, Gino is a senior staff scientist working on leading environmental issues in the Puget Sound area. He has authored numerous scientific papers, presented at major conferences and recently was both science advisor and on-air talent for a Telly award winning documentary on management of Puget Sound shorelines.
