Adriana Di Paola - Dryad

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 performed as Curra in La Forza del Destino under the baton of Gianluigi Gelmetti. On the concert side she sang 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; Rossini’s Stabat Mater in San Sebastian. 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. Mrs. Di Paola recently starred in Gianni Schicchi with the Accademia Santa Cecilia in Rome, Rigoletto in Valencia, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater in Ravenna and Jerusalem. Plans include: Giulio Cesare (Cornelia) in Klagenfurt; Anna Bolena in the first revival in the modern times of the Alto edition; I Vespri Siciliani (1861) at the Teatro Real de Madrid, James Conlon conducting.

Vladimir Jurowski - conductor

One of today’s most sought-after and dynamic conductors, acclaimed worldwide for his incisive musicianship and adventurous artistic commitment, Vladimir Jurowski made his debut at Royal Opera House Covent Garden beginning a brilliant career which took him about the appointment as Music Director of the Glyndebourne Festival, Principal Guest Conductor of the Russian National Orchestra and Principal Conductor of the London Philharmonic. Mr. Jurowski regularly collaborates with the Bastille Opera, the Komische Oper, the Welsh National Opera, the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, the Edinburgh Festival, the Maggio Musicale in Florence. Vladimir Jurowski is a regular guest with many of the world's leading orchestras in both Europe and North America, including the Berlin and Oslo Philharmonic Orchestras, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Chicago Symphony, Tonhalle Orchester Zurich, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Mahler Chamber Orchestra and the Dresden Staatskapelle. Highlights of the 2012/13 season and beyond include his debuts with the Vienna Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, New York Philharmonic, NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo and San Francisco Symphony, and return visits to the Chicago Symphony, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, St Petersburg Philharmonic, Tonhalle Orchester Zurich, Accademia di Santa Cecilia and the Philadelphia Orchestra. He was awarded the Abbiati Prize for Best Conductor of the year 2000 and received the prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society's Music Award for the quality of his work with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Glyndebourne Festival.