Rubens Pelizarri is a top Italian tenor of the younger generation and his lyric-heroic tenor voice is considered one of the most exciting discoveries especially in the Italian repertoire. He has already sung a number of roles in operas by Verdi, Puccini, Cherubini, Bizet and others, with Verdi operas and works occupying a central place, e.g. Aida, La forza del destino, Ernani, Messa di Requiem, Il trovatore, Macbeth, Attila, Il Corsaro and I Masnadieri. He has appeared at many opera houses, among them the Carlo Felice opera house in Genoa, at the open-air stage Sferisterio in Macerata, in Modena, Piacenza, Ravenna, Ferrara, Savona, the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, the Teatro Regio in Turin and in the Teatro Verdi in Triest, singing under the direction of Bartoletti, Callegari, Ranzani and Di Stefano. He has sung roles in Puccini's Tosca, Madame Butterfly, Il tabarro, La fanciulla del West, Edgar (Tel Aviv, Daniel Oren, De Ana Modena, Piacenza, Festival of Avenches, Livorno), in Cherubini's Medea (Evelino Pidò, Teatro Massimo in Palermo and Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania) as well as in Bizet's Carmen (Lausanne, Tokyo, Modena and Piacenza).