Gino has been performing in the Pacific Northwest for over 20 years. Most recently he appeared as the tenor lead in Tacoma Opera's production of Donizetti's Viva La Mamma. He has also performed roles for Seattle, Everett and Kitsap opera companies, the Seattle Symphony and the Seattle Gilbert and Sullivan Society and Northwest Savoyards.

He was a member of Seattle Opera's Young Artist program and is a regular performer for the Seattle Opera Guild. He has also been a popular soloist for events such as the Seattle Opera Guild's Annual Soiree, Seattle’s Festa Italiana, Bumbershoot and Folklife festivals and the Lake Tahoe Summer Arts festival.

His roles include the lyric Italian and French operas (Faust, The Duke, Manrico, Rodolfo, Nemorino), King Kaspar, Gilbert and Sullivan operettas (Frederick, Ralph Rackstraw, Nanki Poo, Edwin), and a wide variety of popular Italian songs and classic German, English and Italian art songs.

Seattle Symphony selected Gino as one of three regional singers to participate in a public master class taught by Jane Eaglen. He has produced La Serenata a recording of popular Italian songs, sings frequently for local restaurants and appears in the popular Gabriel Knight series of video games produced by Sierra On-line. He has studied voice for twenty years, most recently, with Marianne Weltman (Seattle), but also with Bill Eddy (Tacoma).

GINO LUCCHETTI, tenor