An Italian born in Germany, Roberto Saccà studied at the School of Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart as well as Karlsruhe. His international breakthrough came with a new production of L'Orfeo at the Vienna Festwochen. From 1993 to 2002 he was a member of Zurich Opera. He has worked with many distinguished conductors and is a regular guest at all the great opera houses of the world. He has appeared as the Demon in Henze's L’Upupa at Hamburg State Opera, in La clemenza di Tito at Berlin State Opera and Zurich Opera, in Daphne at Vienna State Opera, in Roberto Devereux at Bavarian State Opera, in Idomeneo at the Liceu Barcelona and in Berlin as well as in Rigoletto and Die Entführung aus dem Serail in Turin. Special highlights of recent seasons were his debuts as Florestan in Fidelio (Zurich Opera under Haitink), Bacchus in Ariadne auf Naxos (Zurich), the title role of Peter Grimes (Dusseldorf), the Emperor in Die Frau ohne Schatten (Zurich), the title role of Prokofiev's The Gambler at the Royal Opera House under Pappano – as well as the gradual alteration of his voice category. The tenor also regularly performs as a concert singer. Among the concerts he has given in the recent past are The Creation Requiem under Adam Fischer, Beethoven's 9th Symphony under Christoph von Dohnányi in London, Verdi's under Jiri Kout in Prague and a concert at the Richard Strauss Festival in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.