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                                        Adriana Di Paola – Maddalena (Role debut) 
                                        
                                            
                                        Winner of Santa Chiara Contest in Naples, she debuted at the 
                                        Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro and at the Festival Dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, 
                                        after that she was invited in Valencia where at the Palau de Les Arts Reina 
                                        Sofia is 
                                        starred in 
                                        Le nozze di Figaro 
                                        
                                        and Ariadne 
                                        auf Naxos, 
                                        
                                        Andrew
                                             
                                        Davis conducting. She sang also Ninetta in 
                                        I Vespri Siciliani 
                                              
                                        at the Festival Verdi (2010) in Parma, where she also starred as Curra in 
                                        La Forza del 
                                        Destino 
                                              
                                        under the baton of Gianluigi Gelmetti. On the concert side she performed 
                                        Die Schöpfung 
                                              
                                        by Haydn at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona, conducted by Lothar Zagrosek;
                                        Der 
                                        Kronungsmesse 
                                        
                                        with Omer Meir Wellber again in Valencia; Brahms’ 
                                        Alto Raphsody 
                                              
                                        and the Debussy’s 
                                        Demoiselle élue 
                                              
                                        in Cagliari; 
                                        La Petite Messe 
                                        Solennelle in Rome. Last summer she took part at the Young Project 
                                        Artists at the Salzburg Festival, where she sang in Der Zauberfloete, 
                                        Carmen 
                                              
                                        and Giulio 
                                        Cesare 
                                              
                                        and where she gained great success singing the closing recital of the Project. 
                                        Plans include: 
                                        Otello 
                                        
                                        in Valencia; Rossini’s 
                                        Stabat Mater 
                                              
                                        in San Sebastian. | 
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                                         Paata Burchuladze - Sparafucile 
                                        
                                            
                                        The acclaimed debut at ROH Covent Garden in Aida conducted by Zubin 
                                        Mehta, alongside Katia Ricciarelli and Luciano Pavarotti, marks the beginning of 
                                        a brilliant international career that saw him as a guest of top musical 
                                        institutions such as: the Teatro alla Scala (Nabucco, Luisa Miller, Simon 
                                        Boccanegra, Macbeth ), the Wiener Staatsoper (Luisa Miller, Boris 
                                        Godunov, Khovanshcina), the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich (Boris 
                                        Godunov, Don Carlos, Macbeth, Aida), Opera Bastille in Paris (Faust, 
                                        Nabucco), the San Francisco Opera (Prince Igor, Aida), the 
                                        Metropolitan Opera (Boris Godunov, Don Giovanni, Aida, Khovanshcina). He 
                                        recorded for Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, EMI and Philips. Plans include:
                                        Don Carlo at the Teatro Regio in Turin and at the Teatro del Maggio 
                                        Musicale Fiorentino in Florence. |  
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                                         Sergio Vitale - Marullo 
                                        
                                            
                                        Sergio Vitale is a recipient of various awards including first prize at the 
                                        International Contest “Comunità Europea“ at the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale in 
                                        Spoleto, and at the Lyric Contest “Premio Mattia Battistini“ in Rieti. After 
                                        that he made his debut as Giorgio Gérmont in La Traviata at the Deutsche 
                                        Oper Berlin and he perform as Don Giovanni (title role), Daniel Oren conducting, 
                                        in Salerno, as Conte di Luna in Il Trovatore in Zaragoza, as Gianni 
                                        Schicchi (title role) at the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome, as Marcello 
                                        in La Bohème in Lucca and then on tour in Ravenna, Pisa and Livorno, as 
                                        Malatesta in Don Pasquale in Savona, Figaro in Il 
                                        Barbiere di Siviglia in Cesena, as Schaunard in La Bohème at 
                                        the Deutsche Oper Berlin, as Sharpless in Madama Butterfly in 
                                        Spoleto. Plans include Ford in Falstaff in Fano. |  
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                                         Zyan Atfeh - Conte di Monterone* 
                                        
                                            Born in Damascus, he was trained under the guidance of Mirella Freni and Nicolai 
                                        Ghiaurov who defined him one of the best CUBEC students. Emerging bass, he 
                                        performed such roles as: Schmidt in Andrea Chénier at the Teatro Comunale 
                                        in Bologna, Il Commendatore in Don Giovanni for the AS.LI.CO circuit in 
                                        Italy; the King in Aida at the Festival of Narni, Verdi’s Requiem 
                                        at the Opera in Rome, Zuniga in Carmen and Geronte di Ravoir in Manon 
                                        Lescaut at the Teatro Comunale in Modena and in Piacenza; La Voce in 
                                        Idomeneo at the Stresa Festival under the baton of Gianandrea Noseda, Leo 
                                            ne 
                                             
                                        in Attila at the Verdi Festival in Parma. 
                                        More recently he 
                                        performed La Forza del Destino at the Teatro Regio in Parma under the 
                                        baton of Gianluigi Gelmetti; Beethoven's Symphony n.9 in Lecce; 
                                        Rigoletto (Conte di Monterone) at the Teatro Regio in Turin; La Traviata 
                                        and Nabucco at the Arena di Verona; La Traviata at the Opéra Royal 
                                        de Wallonie in Liège; Roméo et Juliette in Piacenza, Bolzano and Modena;
                                        Falstaff at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona. 
                                             
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