SPECIAL EVENTS

ROBERTO ALAGNA

The major venues and festivals dedicated to lyric art welcome it everywhere, from the Opéra National de Paris to the Metropolitan Opera in New York, from the Royal Opera House in London, to the Chorégies d’Orange, the Scala, Milan, the Vienna Staatsoper or the Deutsche Oper of Berlin. In his 30-year career he has included more than sixty roles in his repertoire: Alfredo, Calaf, Canio, Cavaradossi, Don Carlo (s), Don Jose, Faust, Manrico, Maurizio, Nemorino, Otello, Radames, Rodolfo, Romeo, Ruggero , Turiddu, Werther … Many performances that have made Roberto Alagna the most famous French tenor in the world. He also likes to explore and serve lesser known works, through productions, concerts or recordings such as Le Jongleur de Notre-Dame, Le Cid or La Navarraise by Massenet, Fiesque by Lalo, Francesca da Rimini by Zandonaï, Gianni Schicchi by Puccini. , Chausson’s King Arthus or Debussy’s Prodigal L’Ennfant … he also sings Meyerbeer’s Vasco da Gama, the critical edition of L’Africaine, rarely performed. In 2017 at the Metropolitan Opera he sang a flamboyant Cyrano by Bergerac d’Alfano in its original 1935 version (called the “Alagna version” in the score reprinted by Ricordi). Two contemporary works were even composed for him, Marius and Fanny by Marcel Pagnol by Vladimir Cosma and The last day of a prisoner by Victor Hugo: an opera composed by David Alagna on a libretto by Roberto and Frédérico Alagna and staged for the first time in France in 2014, then released on DVD.

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FEDERICO PACIOTTI

Federico Paciotti (Rome, 1987) is a rock guitarist and singer who started playing and attending music when he was only 6 years old. Raised with a passion for rock but always with an eye and heart open to the world of opera, he is an admirer of the great voices of bel canto such as Franco Corelli, Andrea Bocelli, Luciano Pavarotti, Mario Del Monaco, Jonas Kaufmann and guitar legends. like Jimi Hendrix and Steve Vai.

Since he was a child he has cultivated the dream of uniting two apparently distant musical worlds in a single project in which the sound of the rock guitar marries perfectly with the lyric singing. His career officially started when at 14 with the pop band Gazosa he won Sanremo 2001 in the “New Proposals” category. Following this experience, Federico considers it appropriate to continue studying and decides to perfect himself in opera singing by enrolling at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome, an institution of great prestige and rigor from which in May 2016 he graduated as a Tenor. Meanwhile, he plays one of the seven male roles in the opera “La Divina Commedia”, an impressive theatrical production whose music is composed by Marco Frisina and which is staged for 80,000 spectators in 7 months in Rome, Milan and Reggio Calabria.

In the following years Federico Paciotti has the opportunity to participate in some particularly prestigious events: in 2013he is one of the 5 soloists called “The pearls of Santa Cecilia” venturing into “Tra Voi belle, brune, bionde” from Giacomo’s Manon Lescaut Puccini. Then he is one of the eight tenors who perform with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Maestro Tomomi Nishimoto in two concerts held in St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican and in St. Paul’s Basilica. In 2014 he was one of the three tenors selected from all the international music academies to perform at the prestigious Liszt Academy in Budapest and later at the Luzhniki Auditorium in Moscow. In the same period he collaborates with Maestro Rolando Nicolosi, a living legend of opera who has worked with the greatest opera artists including Schipa, Callas, Domingo and Pavarotti.

It’s time to try to make childhood dreams come true, combining opera and rock in a unique and particular mash-up. When Caterina Caselli listens to Federico’s new project, she decides to face the challenge and join him with the Italian producer and composer Celso Valli and the American musician and composer Simone Benyacar. Among the pieces rearranged and recorded in the studio there is an extraordinary duet with the internationally renowned tenor Ramon Vargas on the notes of “E Lucevan Le Stelle” (“Tosca”, G. Puccini).

In 2015Federico is a guest at the Sanremo Festival, where he interprets two of the most famous works by Giacomo Puccini: “E Lucevan le Stelle” and an instrumental version for guitar of “Nessun Dorma”.

On 26 May 2017 his album “Rosso Opera” is released, with 8 Italian bel canto songs selected from the repertoire of Verdi, Puccini, Händel and others, and with the video for “Vesti La Giubba” taken from “Pagliacci” by R. Leoncavallo. The album tops the Classica chart on Itunes and remains in the overall Top 50 for several days. A few weeks later he is again a guest at “Con Il Cuore” live on Rai 1 from Assisi, but in this case with M. Ramòn Vargas, to sing live the duet “E Luvevan le Stelle” contained in the album.

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ALESSANDRO QUARTA

Acclaimed by CNN in 2019 as “Musical Genius”,violinist, multi-instrumentalist and composer, Alessandro Quarta grew up with the greatest conductors in the world holding roles as a shoulder violin in front of the likes of Lorin Maazel, Mstislav Leopol’dovič Rostropovich, Myung-Whun Chung, George Pretre, Zubin Metha, touring as a shoulder in Europe, America, China, Japan, the Middle East, playing in the most prestigious halls in the world.

He later matured in the light of his many forays into blues, soul and pop territory, to become the unconventional musician we know today. His excellent collaborations include some of the world’s greatest artists: Carlos Santana, Lucio Dalla, Mark Knopfler, Boy George, Dionne Warwick, Lionel Richie, Celine Dion, Liza Minnelli, Joe Cocker, Lenny Kravitz, Jovanotti, Amy Stewart and many more.

He currently collaborates in international projects together with Roberto Bolle, Soloists of the Berliner Philharmoniker, Soloists of the Rai National Orchestra of Turin, Quartet of the Teatro alla Scala, Sestetto Stradivari, Soloists of the Accademia Santa Cecilia Orchestra, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Mike Stern, Il Volo, James Taylor , Toquinho, Regina Carter, Pablo Ziegler and many other international artists.

During the 2019 season, Alessandro Quarta is the protagonist of a series of live events in Italy, Switzerland and Germany to present his new tour dedicated to Piazzolla: “Alessandro Quarta Plays Astor Piazzolla”.
The program dedicated to “Piazzolla” has characterized this 2020 with numerous concerts in the most beautiful and prestigious Italian theaters. With a winning company he proposes a show of great prestige that thrills the public and the press.

After the success of his first two albums One More Time (2010) and above all the autobiographical one Charlot (2014), in 2019he presents his tribute to Astor Piazzolla: Alessandro Quarta plays Astor Piazzolla.

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IL VOLO

Piero Barone, Ignazio Boschetto and Gianluca Ginoble are the three components of IL VOLO.

2009is the year of their debut as individual participants in the RAI 1 Talent show “Ti lascio una canto”, where they are noticed by Michele Torpedine (manager who built the careers of Andrea Bocelli, Zucchero, Giorgia and Biagio Antonacci), who decides to undertake an international artistic journey with them, relying on their vocal skills both individually and as a trio. Thus an extraordinary project was born, which led them to be the first Italian artists in history to sign a contract with an American major in the world discography. Their first album “Il Volo” gets the “Platinum” certification and enters the Billboard Top Ten.

In 2010 they are the only Italian artists to be invited by Quincy Jones to “We Are The World for Haiti”, together with 80 international artists such as Celine Dion, Bono, Lady Gaga, Carlos Santana, Barbra Streisand, Enrique Iglesias, Usher, Natalie Cole , Will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas. From 2010 to today they also participate in some of the most important European and American television broadcasts, such as Tonight Show, American Idol, Good Morning America, Today Show, Watten Das in Germany, MDA Labor DAY Telethon by Jerry Lewis and finally in the famous program “America’s Got Talent, they received compliments from Simon Cowell and the program’s share record. They also take part in the evening organized by Unicef for the children of the Horn of Africa, on the occasion of the Venice Film Festival.

In 2011 Il Volo obtained two “Latin Grammy” nominations for the publication and one million copies sold of the “Special Christmas Edition”; it is also the year of the departure of their first international tour (staged continuously for 4 years) and the broadcast of the first television special dedicated to them, which boasts over a thousand replicas.

In 2012Barbra Streisand invites them to be an integral part of her “Back to Brooklyn” tour, where they perform with her on 12 dates in America and Canada. The tour precedes the duets of “We Are Love” with Placido Domingo and Eros Ramazzotti. In their first live album “Il Volo Takes Flight”, released in February 2012, and “Il Volo”, they remain in first and second place in the Billboard Classical Crossover chart.

2013is the year of their first concert at Radio City Music Hall in New York where, in just 8 hours, more than 1600 tickets are sold (the concert sold out in a few days); the live begins the tour between the United States, Canada, Central and South America which, with 50 concerts all sold – out, confirms Il Volo as the rising star of opera pop. In the same year “Buon Natale – The Christmas Album” was released all over the world; the disc, which contains some of the major Christmas classics, enters the Top Ten list of iTunes Italy within a few days. In the same year they participate in the great Christmas Concert in the Upper Basilica of Assisi, broadcast by RAI 1 on 25 December after the Pope’s Holy Mass.

In 2015Il Volo participated and won the Sanremo Festival with the song “Grande Amore”; Sony Music then releases their album, which collects famous songs from the history of the Festival reinterpreted in a contemporary and international key. After the Sanremo experience, Il Volo represents Italy at the Eurovision Song Contest where the European television audience rewards him by making him reach # 1 in televoting. For the occasion, Sony Music publishes the album “L’amore Si Moglie” in 45 countries, which in a few days reaches the top of the charts and allows Il Volo to remain present in the Italian and international charts for a long time with three publications. between CD and DVD.

2016 and 2017 are the years dedicated to the “Magic Night” project, the tribute to the 1990 event where the Three Tenors, Josè Carreras, Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti, enchanted the whole world from the stage of the Baths of Caracalla. On 1 July in Piazza Santa Croce in Florence Il Volo thus brings on stage “MAGIC NIGHT – Tribute to the Three Tenors”, broadcast in prime time on Canale 5; the show sees the extraordinary participation of Placido Domingo and marks the beginning of a world tour of “MAGIC NIGHT – A Tribute To The Three Tenors” which debuted on March 4 at the Radio City Music Hall in New York, recording the sold out. After 15 stops in the United States, all sold out, the tour will see them engaged from next May 5, 2017 on 29 dates in Europe (which are already recording great sales successes) and from September on tour also in Latin America. The concert “MAGIC NIGHT – Tribute to the Three Tenors” was filmed and broadcast in the United States by the national television network PBS, in Italy by Canale 5 and, starting from June, it will be broadcast in over 500 cinemas in Italy and around the world.