BARITONS

JOSE’ CARBO

The Australian baritone, of Argentine origin, José Carbó is one of the most interesting baritones of his generation, thanks to his vocal qualities and magnetic stage presence.

He has sung in major theaters in the world, including Teatro alla Scala, Teatro Real Madrid, Los Angeles Opera, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Seattle Opera and Opera Australia. He made his debut with great success in 2013 the role of Renato in A Masked Ball at the Opera Australia (reviewed by the Sydney Morning Herald as “an objective lesson in Verdi’s singing”) later on he made his debut in other important Verdi roles like Rigoletto, Rodrigo in Don Carlo and Germont in La traviata, achieving the affirmation as “the most important Australian Verdian baritone” (Limelight Magazine).

In 2019he made his debut in Tosca at the Queensland Opera Brisbain and returned to the Sydney Opera House to sing Germont in La Traviata and Figaro in The Marriage of Figaro.

In 2018he returned to Opera Australia as Germont and embarked on an Australian tour on Sumi Jo’s fiancé. In 2017 he played the roles of Germont in Traviata and Alfio / TonioCavalleria rusticana / Pagliacci for Opera Australia.

Other successes include the role of Riolobo Florencia in Amazonas for the Los Angeles Opera, Germont in La traviata and Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor for the Victorian Opera and Zurga in the Pearl Fisherman for Opera Australia.

Prior to his dramatic repertoire debut, José Carbo was a great performer of the role of Figaroin The Barber of Seville which he sang at the Seattle Opera (his US debut in 2011), Teatro Real Madrid, Opera Australia, Opera Queensland and State Opera of South Australia. He made his European debut in 2005 at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome as Figaro in The Marriage of Figaro and made his debut at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan in 2009 in The Journey to Reims. Other roles include Don Giovanni, Belcore L’elisir d’amore, Marcello La bohème, Silvio Pagliacci, Escamillo Carmen, Dandini La Cenerentola, Lescaut Manon, Don Alfonso Così fan tutte, Sonora La fanciulla del Weste Tomsky Pique Dame.

His discography includes a Latin Heartsolo album released for ABC Classics, as well as DVD / Blu-Ray and CDs such as Marcello in La bohème for Opera Australia.

JOSE’
CARBO

QIANMING DOU

Born in Shanghai on 6 July 1991. The solo baritone of the Shanghai Opera House has signed a contract with an artist within the international music agency Atelier Italiano. He graduated from the Tchaikovsky Conservatory of Music with a bachelor’s degree and was admitted to the Florence Conservatory of Music in Italy with a Masters in 2018. From Professor Zhang Renqing of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, from Professor Donatella debolini, Italian soprano, and by Professor Bruno de Simone, a famous Italian baritone.

Honorary awards: in 2015 he won the special scholarship of the “Riccardo Zandonai” young artists program of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Opera in Florence and studied and worked in the opera house. . In 2016 he won the first prize of “Fruccio Tagliavini” at the Austrian International Vocal Competition and gave the winner’s concert at the National Opera in Graz, the second largest opera house in Austria. The official Austrian international media praised “the voice of the world from the East, the new star of the opera of the future” and published his award-winning news in L’Opera, the most authoritative international magazine in Italy. In the same year, he won the second prize of the “Salice D’Oro” at the Italian international vocal competition, and was highly appreciated by Mr. Mayer, art director of the Vienna State Opera, and invited to study and swap at the Vienna State Opera House

In 2017 he won the Special Prize of the Lyric Theater of Ferrara “toti DAL Monte” at the International Vocal Competition of Italy. In the same year he was awarded the first prize of the “Angelo Loforese” China international competition and the special star award. Show experience: in March 2016 he was the father of the opera “Hansel and Gretel” produced by the opera house in Florence, in April he acted as Taddeo in the Italian in Algiers, in June he acted as Count of Marchese, and in July 2016, accompanied the representative of the opera house of Florence, the Municipality of Florence, to the open-air theater of the capital of Tunis to hold the International Music Festival of Tunis. In July he performed as solo baritone at the summer music festival of the Teatro dell’Opera di Firenze. From October 2016 to March 2017, the opera La scuola de gelosi has been on tour in various Italian theaters, including (Legnago theater, chieti theater, Verona theater, Belluno theater, Jessi theater, etc.)

In 2017 In February he interpreted Figaro in IL bariere di sviglia and Taddeo in the Italian in Algiers at the Royal Opera House in Muscat, Oman. In March he goes to the Ancona Opera House to perform Bran’s poem as a baritone solo. From April to May he toured China on behalf of the opera house in Florence, passing through Guangzhou, Macao, Hong Kong, Beijing and Shanghai. In May he acted as DON Carlo under the direction of Zubin Meta, the orchestra master. From July to August he played Marco in the opera Gianni schicchi respectively in the culture of Suzhou and in the Art Center of China and in the Jiangsu Grand Theater. In September he played Figaro in IL Barbiere Di Siviglia at the Opera Theater of Piacenza. In January and March 2018 she interpreted Carmen as a bullfighter at the Florence Opera House and at the Novara

Opera House respectively. In mid-March he acted as a baritone soloist in the Italian osimo, played at the opera house in Florence as Figaro in Il Barbiere di Siviglia and in September 2018 he was invited to participate in the most important international music festival in the Republic of Cyprus, Festival of Paphos, she performed in the opera, Sevilla Barber as the main character. Figaro was highly regarded by the President of the Republic of Cyprus.

2019 In November he performed at the Verona Philharmonic Opera House, where he acted as the lead blcore baritone actor. In December, he attended the Shanghai Grand Theater 2020 Beethoven Symphony No. 9 New Year’s concert with conductor Fabio Luisi and worked as a baritone singer. During his work in Europe, he collaborated with several international commanders, such as Zubin meta, Fabio Luisi, Fabrizio carminati, John Axelrod, Sebastiano rolli, Ryan McAdams, etc.

QIANMING
DOU

ALBERTO GAZALE

Alberto Gazale, a multifaceted baritone with a soft and powerful register, critically regarded as one of the best artists of his generation, plays over seventy leading roles in the major theaters in the world.
The vast horizon of his repertoire ranges from Monteverdi to Dallapiccola, with a preference for the late nineteenth-century period.

Literary university studies, a diploma from the Verona Conservatory of Music with full marks and constant training outline a personality with a clear and incisive artistic profile.
He perfected Verdi’s style and technique with Carlo Bergonzi, one of his greatest exponents in the field.
His international debut coincides with the interpretation of Renato in Verdi’s A Masked Ball which inaugurates the 1998 season of the Verona Arena.

He hits the stage of the Teatro alla Scala many times and under the direction of Riccardo Muti he plays various roles, including Macbeth, Rigoletto, Conte di Luna, Otello. Still on the Scala stage he plays three editions of Verdi’s Rigoletto, Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, Dallapiccola’s Ulisse, Giordano’s Andrea Chénier, Verdi’s Otello, and on tour in Tokyo the Scala productions of Rigoletto, Macbeth, Otello.

Regular guest of the Vienna State Opera, he takes part in numerous productions, including:
La Traviata (two editions), Nabucco (three editions), La Forza del Destino (two editions) by Verdi, Tosca by Puccini.
At the Bolshoi in Moscow he plays Manon Lescaut by Puccini, at the Teatro delle Muse in Ancona A masked ball, at the Petruzzelli in Bari and in Tokyo Il Trovatore by Verdi, at the Opera in Las Palmas he is Gianni Schicchi, Iago in Plovdiv, Scarpia at the Savonlinna Opera Festival and Germont at the Sferisterio in Macerata.
He collaborates with important conductors, including: Gary Bertini, Roberto Rizzi Brignoli, Riccardo Chailly, James Conlon, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Daniel Oren, Carlo Rizzi.
It is staged in major Italian and international theaters, including: Carnegie Hall in New York (Otello alongside Carlo Bergonzi), Opernhaus in Zurich, Deutsche Oper in Berlin, Real in Madrid, Arena in Verona, Liceu in Barcelona, New Israeli Opera of Tel Aviv, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Opéra de Montecarlo, Opera of Rome, Regio of Parma; the artistic fil rouge with “Fondazione Arena”.
He made his debut in 1992 with Pollicino di Henze at the Teatro Nuovo. At the Philharmonic Theater he sang in 1999 in La Traviata and returned in 2011 with Rigoletto. For the 2020 Opera Season at the Filarmonico he plays Lord Enrico Ashton in Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor.
In the Arena, in 1998, he performed Un Ballo in Maschera.
He is Amonasro in seven editions of Aida from 1999 to 2011, Nabucco in five, Il Conte di Luna in Il Trovatore in four editions from 2001 to 2010. He also sings La Forza del Destino in 2000, Rigoletto in 2001, Ponchielli’s La Gioconda in 2005.
In 2017 she is Sharpless in Madama Butterfly; in 2018 he is Escamillo in the new edition of Carmen by Bizet, a role that he also supports in 2019; in the same season he plays Il Conte di Luna in Il Trovatore.
In 2020 he is among the major performers of the Festival “In the heart of music”, as well as in the 98th Arena di Verona Opera Festival 2021.

ALBERTO
GAZALE

IVAN INVERARDI

One of the most talented Italian baritones of his generation, Ivan Inverardi has performed the leading Verdi and Puccini roles in the most important opera houses in the world, such as the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, The Washington Opera, The Royal Opera House – Covent Garden in London, Haus für Mozart in Salzburg, Gran Teatre del Liceu de Barcelona, Deutsche Oper in Berlin, Den Norske Opera in Oslo, Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence, Arena di Verona, Teatro Regio of Turin, Teatro Comunale of Bologna, Teatro dell’Opera of Rome tra gli altri e lavorando con direttori come: Riccardo Muti, Daniel Oren, Daniel Harding, Antonio Pappano, just to name a few.

Inverardi is a regular guest at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, where he performed titles such as “I Due Foscari”, “Macbeth” and “Cavalleria Rusticana“. Also notable are his performances as “Rigoletto” at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence, Arena di Verona, Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Teatro Verdi in Busseto, Teatro Regio in Turin, Teatro Comunale in Bologna and Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden; Vargas’s Don Carlos in“La Forza del Destino” at the Arena di Verona; Francesco ne “I Masnadieri” at Teatro Massimo of Palermo; Jago in Otello at the Washington Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Gran Teatre del Liceu de Barcelona, Terme di Caracalla in Rome and at the Oper Graz; Renato in “Un Ballo in Maschera” at ‘Opéra de Montepellier, Teatro Regio di Torino, Deutsche Oper Berlin:”; Scarpia in “Tosca” at Teatro Carlo Felice of Genova, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Musiktheater di Essen and Oper Graz; Ezio in “Attila” at Teatro dell’Opera of Rome; Don Carlo in “Ernani” at Staddtheater St. Gallen and at Teatro Comunale of Bologna; Michele in “Il Tabarro” at Teatro Massimo of Palermo; Nabucco in “Nabucco” at the Deutsche Oper of Berlin and at Teatro Lirico of Cagliari; Sir John Falstaff in “Falstaff” at Sassari and at the Teatro Pergolesi of Jesi. In the last season he obtained a personal success at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin with the role of Gianciotto in Francesca da Rimini, a production that will resume again this season in Berlin. Among the latest commitments, we point out “Rigoletto” at the Carlo Felice in Genoa, various concerts in Europe. It has also been in production since last January in Cagliari for the role of Bardo de Bardi in Cilea’s “Gloria”, rediscovered in modern times.

IVAN
INVERARDI

GIACOMO MEDICI

“Giacomo Medici excelled, a baritone of beautiful timbre and solid vocal emission, with excellent acting skills” – GB Opera

“The performance of Giacomo Medici is important, with a marked diction and a strong voice” – Opera Click

Graduated in Literature and Philosophy at the University of Bologna, he graduated in opera singing at the Rossini Conservatory in Pesaro. He specializes with Sherman Lowe and Roberto Frontali. Among his most important collaborations we remember those with the Oscar winners Woody Allen, Dante Ferretti, Gabriella Pascucci, Santo Loquasto and the conductors Bruno Bartoletti, James Conlon, Bruno Campanella, Daniele Callegari, Renato Palumbo, Michele Mariotti, Francesco Lanzillotta, Donato Renzetti, Francesco Ivan Ciampa etc; among the directors with whom he has collaborated we mention Pier Luigi Pizzi, Daniele Abbado, Hugo de Ana, Emma Dante, Hennig Brokhaus, Leo Muscato, Woody Allen.

He began his career by participating in the world premiere of Sergio Calligaris’ Panis Angelicus (Basilica of Loreto) and in the opera Neues Von Tage by Hindemith (Teatro delle Muse in Ancona), under the direction of Bruno Bartoletti, directed by Pier Luigi Lace. She sings in Cleopatra by Lauro Rossi (Sferisterio Opera Festival) and in Rigoletto under the direction of Bruno Bartoletti, again directed by Pier Luigi Pizzi. Later he performed in Castelnuovo Tedesco’s Romancero Gitano, in Johannes Brahms’ Liebeslieder and in Rutter’s Mass of the children.

Among the other works to those he takes part we remember: Gianni Schicchi (Festival dei Due Mondi di Spoleto, directed by Woody Allen and under the direction of James Conlon), La traviata, Lucrezia Borgia, La forza del fate, Tosca, Otello, Don Pasquale, Macbeth, Carmen.

After a tour that took him with the recital Passione e canto in Latin America (Argentina and Brazil) and in Eastern Europe, he participates in the productions of Nabucco, La Traviata and Don Giovanni at the Teatro della Fortuna in Fano, as well as Tosca and Rigoletto at the Pergolesi Theater of Jesi. He returns to the Teatro delle Muse of Ancona in Madama Butterfly, directed by Renato Palumbo, and in Rigoletto.

He is the protagonist in Britten’s The Little Sweeper (a production that won the Abbiati Prize) at the Macerata Opera Festival, where he also participates in La Traviata di Svoboda, directed by Henning Brockhaus. He sings in the Boheme directed by Leo Muscato (Production which won the Abbiati Prize). Also at the Macerata Opera Festival he sings in Otello and Madama Butterfly. In the same year he sang in The Magic Flute staged in the theaters of Ascoli, Fermo and Fano for the Circuito Lirico Marchigiano. In 2018 he took part, among others, in the productions of Rigoletto at the Pergolesi Theater in Jesi and of La traviata at the Macerata Opera Festival. Among the various productions of 2019-2020 we highlight the Macbeth staged at the Macerata Opera Festival, directed by Emma Dante, and Carmen of the Circuito Lirico Marchigiano. In 2021 he sang in Madama Butterfly at the Theater Metropole de Metz, in France.

Also in 2021 he was the protagonist of Marco Betta’s opera Night for me bright at the Pergolesi Theater in Jesi and of the opera Maria de Buenos Aires by Astor Piazzolla, staged at the Goldoni theater in Livorno and other Italian theaters on tour.

At a discographic level he records with the Dynamic, Bongiovanni, Naxos labels; as regards his film appearances, he was selected to take part, as a singer, in the film I delitti del Barlume, produced by Sky Cinema – Palomar, and in the docufilm On the pedals of the bellows, produced by Controluce Audiovisivi. He also participated in the television series on the opera Tre Voci Dentro, broadcast on Rai Play and other television channels, produced by the Pergolesi Spontini Foundation and by Subway Lab.

GIACOMO
MEDICI

LUCA MICHELETTI

Luca Micheletti, “son of art” for four generations, heir to the Micheletti-Zampieri theatrical dynasty that has its roots in the wandering theater of the “Carri di Thespis” of the mid-nineteenth century. Born in Brescia, he trained working from a very young age in the theater company “I Guitti”, of which he is currently the permanent director. After graduating with honors in Theater Sciences (University of Milan and IUAV University of Venice), he obtained a PhD in Italian Studies at the “La Sapienza” University of Rome.

Before starting his vocal career, for years he enjoyed enormous success in the theatrical field, both as an actor and as a prose director, collaborating among others with great names such as Luca Ronconi, Marco Bellocchio, Umberto Orsini, interpreting and signing works of the great repertoire, from Shakespeare to Brecht, from Ibsen to Pirandello. In 2011 he won the prestigious “Ubu” Prize for his interpretation in Brecht’s The Resistable Ascent by Arturo Ui (also the National Critics’ Prize), and in 2015 the “Luigi Pirandello” International Prize for merits acquired in the theatrical field.

In 2018 he made his extraordinary debut as Jago in a new production of Verdi’s Otello signed by Cristina Mazzavillani Muti. This debut has opened the doors of the greatest Italian and international theaters, which has consecrated him in a short time as the most significant vocal and scenic revelation of recent years.

One of the most talented baritones in today’s opera scene, Luca Micheletti sang the major Mozart and Verdi roles in the most prestigious Italian and foreign theaters collaborating, among others, with conductors such as Riccardo Muti, Myung-whun Chung, Renato Palumbo, Daniel Harding, Marco Armiliato, Jordi Bernacer, among others.

During the 2018/19 season he interpreted the role of Escamillo in Carmen and Enrico in Il Campanello, by Donizetti at the Teatro Lirico in Cagliari, as well as the Count of Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro by Mozart at the Alighieri Theater in Ravenna under the direction of Riccardo Muti. He opens the 2019/20 season by making his debut as a director of Carmen at the Alighieri Theater in Ravenna, where he again interpreted the role of Escamillo. Later, he convinced critics and audiences with his sensational debut in the role of Rigoletto at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino under the direction of Renato Palumbo. He also made his debut with great success on the stage of the Sydney Opera House playing the protagonist in a new production of Don Giovanni signed by David McVicar. n the same season he made his debut in the role of Verdi’s Macbeth at the Tokyo Spring Festival under the direction of Maestro Muti, a party who consecrated him among the best baritones in the world.

He also played the Count of Luna in Il Trovatoreat the Fenice in Venice; Marcello in La Bohème at the Circus Maximus in Rome under construction by the Rome Opera House. In the double role of director and interpreter at the Carlo Felice Theater in Genoa he is Danilo in the operetta La Vedova Allegra by F. Léhar (in a new Italian rhythmic version edited by him), Umberto in the Serva Padrona by G. B. Pergolesi and Sam in Trouble in Thaiti by L. Bernstein. Back to the Ravenna Festival for directing Faust Rhapsodyin an innovative staging between opera and prose theater. Return to the role of Rigolettoat the Verona Philharmonic Theater; Figaro in Le Nozze di Figaro at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino; Escamillo in Carmen at the Arena of Verona and at the Baths of Caracalla, under construction at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome.

Finally the debut at Teatro alla Scala con Le Nozze di Figaro under the direction of M.° Daniel Harding with a real personal triumph of audiences and critics. Following this success Micheletti was invited to La Scala for seven productions in the future: Messa in Tempore Belli with M.° Zubin Mehta, Guido di Monforte in I Vespri Siciliani with M.° Fabio Luisi, Marcello in La Bohème with M.° Lorenzo Viotti, again Figaro in Le Nozze di Figarowith M.° Daniel Harding, Ford in Falstaff under the direction of the musical director M.° Riccardo Chailly, Don Carlo of Vargas in La Forza del Destino and Escamillo in Carmen of G. Bizet.

He will debut at the Royal Opera House in London as the protagonist in Don Giovanni, for the opening of the 2022/23 season. This role he returns to interpret at the Teatro Regio in Turin with Maestro Riccardo Muti. To name just a few of the major future engagements he will perform as Rodrigo in Don Carlo og G. Verdi at Covent Garden with M.°Pappano; Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte at Firenze; Jago in Otello at Grand Théâtre de Genève and Macbeth at Washington National Opera.

LUCA
MICHELETTI

EMILIO PONS

The career of the tenor Emilio Pons has taken him to Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Latin America.

Since his professional debut at the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, Russia, he has performed internationally at the Grand Théâtre de Genève and Theater St Gallen in Switzerland;the Royal Opera, Copenhagen, Denmark; the Vlaamse Opera, Ghent and Antwerp, Belgium; Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg; the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, the Théâtre de Champs-Elysées, in Paris, and the Opéra de Metz, in France; the Sankt Margarethen Opera Festival, the Salzburg State Theater and the WKO in Austria; the Prinzregenten Theater of Munich, the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Düsseldorf, the Opera Magravial of Bayreuth and the theaters of the cities of Augsburg, Bielefeld, Braunschweig, Coburg, Freiburg, Heidelberg, Magdeburg, Regensburg and Wuppertal, in Germany; the Nordnorsk Opera in Norway; Vilnius City Opera, Lithuania; Opera Siam in Bangkok, Thailand; in Singapore with the National Symphony Orchestra; as well as the Compañía Nacional de Ópera de Bellas Artes, Mexico City; Julio Mayor Theater in Bogota, Colombia, Teatro Municipal de Santiago, Chile and Theatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro-

His operatic repertoire includes more than thirty roles, including: cornerstones of opera Fach as Tamino (Mozart-Die Zauberflöte), Ferrando (Mozart-Cosi fan Tutti), Don Ottavio (Mozart-Don Giovanni), Il Podestà (Mozart-La finta giardiniera), Tom Rakewell (Stravinsky-The Rake’s Progress), Nemorino (Donizetti-L’elisir d’amore), Narraboth (Strauss-Salome), Il Conte d’Almaviva (Rossini-Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Lensky (Tchaikovsky – Yevgenij Onegin), Le Chevalier de la Force (Poulenc-Dialogues des Carmélites), Trouffaldino (Prokofiev-L’amour des trois oranges); various starring roles in lesser-known works, including the title role in Spartacus di Porsile, Mad Woman (Britten-Curlew River), Hypollit (Henze-Phaedra), Egeo e Sole (Cavalli-Il Giasone, distributed on DVD), Richmond (Battistelli -Riccardo III), Serge / Adolphe (Martinů-Die drei Wünsche), Le Commissaire (Martinů-Juliette), Fernando (in the German premiere of Goyescas di Granados); and various supporting roles such as Arturo (Donizetti-Lucia di Lammermoor), Arbace (Mozart-Idomeneo), Pong (Puccini-Turandot), Laërtes (Thomas-Mignon), Jaquino (Beethoven-Fidelio), among others.

She sang under the direction of acclaimed conductors such as Mikhail Jurowsky, Mac Albrecht, Daniele Callegari, Jiří Bělohlávek, Ingo Metzmacher, Enoch zu Guttenberg, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Frédéric Chaslin, Zoltan Pesko, Niksa Bareelius, Federico Me Sardelli and Cornelli other. He has worked with renowned directors such as Robert Carsen, Christof Loy, Guy Joosten, Richard Jones, Katie Mitchell, Pier Francesco Maestrini, Joan Anton Rechi, Arila Siegert, Jean-Louis Benôit, Mariame Clément and Benedikt von Peter.

On the stage of concerts and recitals he has performed in recitals in Germany, France, Belgium, Netherlands (Concertgebouw, Amsterdam), Switzerland, Spain, Poland, Russia, Japan, Azerbaijan (with the London Philharmonic Orchestra), Israel (with the Jerusalem Camerata and the Be’er Sheva Sinfonietta).

Emilio Pons holds a degree in piano from the National Conservatory of Music in Mexico and a law degree from the Universidad Iberoamericana, as well as a Masters and Doctor of Music in vocal performance and literature from the Jacobs School of Music of the University of Indiana. His doctoral field of specialization was Russian phonetics for the opera stage.

He is a member of the European Parliament of Culture, co-founder and artistic director of the Sankt Goar Festival and the International Academy of Music. Skilled polyglot, he speaks English, Spanish, French, Italian, German and Russian, all fluently. He has dual German and Mexican citizenship.

EMILIO
PONS

Bruno Praticò

Great interpreter of comic baritone roles (in a repertoire ranging from the eighteenth century up to Mozart and Rossini, with more than a hundred roles to his credit), Bruno Praticò has trod the stages of the major theaters in the world, including Metropolitan, Covent Garden , Teatro alla Scala, Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Wiener Staatsoper, Teatro Comunale in Florence, Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Teatro Comunale in Bologna, Teatro Regio in Parma, Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, Opéra de Montecarlo, Opéra National de Paris, Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam, Opéra in Lausanne, Japan Opera Foundation and New National Theater in Tokyo, Teatro De La Maestranza in Seville, Teatro Real in Madrid and Grand Théâtre in Geneva.

He has collaborated with directors such as Claudio Abbado, Bruno Campanella, Riccardo Chailly, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Donato Renzetti, Carlo Rizzi and Alberto Zedda.

Regular guest of the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, on the occasion of his interpretation of Don Magnifico (La cenerentola), in 1998 he was awarded the prestigious “Rossini d’Oro” prize.
Among the numerous interpretations of Pesaro, the journey to Reims, The Cinderella, The Gazette, The extravagant misunderstanding, Le comte Ory and the recent Torvaldo and Dorliska are worth mentioning.

Exceptional interpreter of the role of Bartolo (Il barbiere di Siviglia), he sang it in the major theaters in the world, including Metropolitan, Covent Garden, Teatro alla Scala, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Baltimore Opera Company, Arena di Verona, Opéra de Montecarlo, Opéra National de Paris, Teatro Massimo “V. Bellini “in Catania, Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, Bayerische Staatsoper, Teatro Real in Madrid.

uring the 2016/17 season she played Béatrice et Bénédict (Somarone) at the Opéra de Toulouse, Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Selim) in the Theaters of Treviso and Ferrara, The night of a neurasthenic and Gianni Schicchi at the Opéra de Montpellier and La fille du regimént in Moscow.

Among the commitments of the last 2017/18/19 seasons we mention Tosca at the Municipal Theater of Sassari, and later La vedova allegra at the Verdi Theater in Padua and The Marriage of Figaro at the Verona Philharmonic Theater, La Cenerentola (Don Magnifico) at the Theater Municipal of Bassano and The Barber of Seville in Enschede.

Of his rich record production we highlight Il barbiere di Siviglia (Bartolo; EMI), L’elisir d’amore (Dulcamara; Erato), Il signor Bruschino and La cambiale di matrimonio (Claves), Lakmè, Don Quichotte and La bohème by Leoncavallo (Nuova Era), L’italiana in Londra (Bongiovanni and BMG), The novelist and the black man by Donizetti (Opera Rara), as well as a recital with music by Mozart and Rossini (Bongiovanni).

Born in Aosta, he studied with the baritone Giuseppe Valdengo and followed the specialization courses at the Teatro alla Scala and Rodolfo Celletti.

Bruno
Praticò

SEIJIN
PARK

MARCO SACCARDIN

Born in Rovigo in 1990, after high school he obtained a diploma in Classical guitar with honors and honorable mention at the “F. Venezze ”of Rovigo under the guidance of prof. Monica Paolini and then devote herself to the study of the lute with Maestro Massimo Lonardi at the “F. Vittadini” institute in Pavia, obtaining a second level degree with honors and honorable mention in 2017. Parallel to his instrumental studies, he joined the “Polyphonic city of Rovigo” choir directed by the masters Vittorio Zanon and Marco Scavazza. With the latter he then embarked on the study of Renaissance and Baroque singing.

Since 2013 he has collaborated with the Chorus of the Swiss Italian Radio and Television, directed by Maestro Diego Fasolis, with whom he participated in the production of Giuseppe Verdi’s Requiem, Mendelssohn’s second symphony “Lobgesang” and Johannes Brahms’s “Ein Deutsches Requiem”, held in Bellinzona on the occasion of the celebrations of Good Friday 2013 2014 and 2015. In addition to the concert repertoire he has participated in various opera productions at the Teatro alla Scala (“Die soldaten” by Bernd Alois Zimmermann, conducted by Ingo Metzmacher, 2015), at the Salzburger Festspiele and Pfingfestspiele (“Norma” by Vincenzo Bellini, RSI choir, conductor. Giovanni Antonini, 2013 and 2015). Also in 2015 at the Salzburg festival he participated, as a soloist (Un Scythe) and chorister, in “Iphigenie en tauride” by Christoph Willibald Gluck (RSI choir, conductor Diego Fasolis). In 2017, as part of the Vicenza in Lirica festival, she took part in the performances of Claudio Monteverdi’s Orfeo at the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza singing in the title role. Since 2018 he has also collaborated with the Choeur de l’Opera de Dijon with whom he participated in the production of “Simon Boccanegra” by Giuseppe Verdi (conducted by Roberto Rizzi Brignoli) and “Jenůfa” by Leoš Janaček (conducted by Stefan Veselka). Also in 2018 he began collaborating as a theorbist with the Italian ensemble “I Disinvolti” directed by Massimo Lombardi. In December 2019 within the La Verdi season he took part as a bass soloist in the “Weihnachtsoratorium” of J.S. Bach. Since 2017 he has also performed accompanying the lute and chitarrone as in use in the early seventeenth century in Italy.

BARITONS

JOSE’ CARBO

QIANMING DOU

ALBERTOGAZALE

IVANINVERARDI

GIACOMOMEDICI

LUCAMICHELETTI

EMILIOPONS