Ionut Pascu, a baritone, was born in Romania.
His repertoire includes Lesco in Manon Lesco (Puccini), the title role in Don Giovanni (Mozart), the title role in Oedipus (Enesco), the title role in The Flying Dutchman (Wagner), Escamillo in Carmen (Biza), the title role in Rigoletto and Macbeth, Iago in Othello (Verdi), and more. He appears in opera houses in Romania as well as in Liège, Sofia, Padua, Valencia, Dago, Salerno, Palermo, Catania, Tirana, and more. In the Israeli Opera, he performed the title role in Elko (Rachmaninov), the title role in Eugene Onegin (Tchaikovsky), Alfeo in Cavalleria Rusticana (Mascany), Tonio in Pagliacci (Leonquello), the four villains in The Tales of Hoffmann (Offenbach), Enrico in (Donizetti), Lucia di Lammermoor, Germont in La Traviata, Miller in Luisa Miller, Renato in Un ballo maschera, Don Carlo in Il forte (Verdi), Marcello in La bohème, Scarpia in Tosca (Puccini) and more.
His roles in the Israeli Opera:
The Love Potion: Dulcamare (2024)
Rigoletto: Rigoletto (2024)
The Dialogues of the Carmelites: The Marquis de la Force (2024)
Rusalka: The Water Demon (2024)
Lucia di Lamarmore: Enrico (2024)
The Troubadour: Count Di Luna (2023)
Elko: Elko (2023)
Cavalleria Rusticana: Alfio (2023)
Madame Butterfly: Sharpless (2022)
The Tales of Hoffmann: Lindorff / Coppelius / Miracle / Departuto (2022)
La Traviata: Germont (2022)
Aida: Amoncero (2022)
Pagliacci: Tonio (2022)
Eugene Onegin: Eugene Onegin (2022)
Simon Boccanegra: Simon Boccanegra (2019)
That’s what they all do: Don Alfonso (2019)
Masquerade: Renato (2019)
Nabucco: Nabucco (2018, 2019) – Opera in the Park, The Sultan’s Pool
Don Carlo: Rodrigo (2018)
Madame Butterfly: Sharpless (2018) – Jerusalem
La Bohème: Marcello / Chouinard (2017)
Tosca: Scarpia (2017) – Opera in the Park
The Power of Destiny: Don Carlo (2017)
Lucia di Lamour: Enrico (2017)
Madame Butterfly: Sharpless (2017)
Nabucco: Nabucco (2017) – Beersheba
The Troubadour: Di Luna (2016)
Nabucco: Nabucco (2015)
La Bohème: Marcello / Chouinard (2014)
La Traviata: Germont (2014) – Masada
Masquerade: Renato (2014)
The Tales of Hoffman: Nicklaus (2014)
La Traviata: Germont (2013)
Louisa Miller: Miller (2013)
Lucia di Lamour: Enrico (2012)
Pagliacci: Tonio (2011)
Cavalleria Rusticana: Alfio (2011)
