Silvia Tro Santafé - Sara

Spanish Mezzo-soprano Silvia Tro Santafé has established a major reputation with audiences and leading opera houses over the world. Her repertoire ranges from the Baroque to the 21st century, but above all she is recognised as one of today’s finest exponents of Rossini and the Bel Canto. Over the last seasons her repertoire has extended to Bellini’s Adalgisa in Norma in Berlin and Brussels, Romeo in I Capuleti e i Montecchi at the Munich State Opera and Isoletta in La Straniera in Moscow. Her Donizetti repertoire includes Orsini in Lucrezia Borgia in Brussels, Munich and recorded with Edita Gruberova, Sara in Roberto Devereux, Giovanna Seymour in Anna Bolena and most recently Elisabetta in Maria Stuarda at the Liceu in Barcelona. She has recorded and performed many of the greatest roles of baroque repertoire including the title roles of Xerxes (Champs Elysées- Paris), Rinaldo (Berlin State Opera), Ariodante (Barcelona) and as Polinesso (Salzburg Festival, Paris Opera) Tolomeo in Giulio Cesare (Netherlands Opera). Recent concert performances have included Verdi’s Requiem (Hamburg) Rossini’s Stabat Mater(Royal Liverpool Philharmonic).

Plans include Charlotte in Werther; Elisabetta in Maria Stuarda in Marseille; Maffio Orsini in< Lucrezia Borgia at the Munich State Opera; and Romeo I Capuleti e i Montecchi in Barcelona.

Mrs Tro Santafé will return to the Teatro Real in Madrid for production of Lucio Silla.

Bruno Campanella - conductor

With his deep knowledge of the Bel Canto repertoire M° Campanella is considered one of its greatest interpreters. Bruno Campanella, collaborates with the main theaters such as the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Opéra de Paris, the Wiener Staatsoper, the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Teatro Regio in Turin, the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, the New National Theatre in Tokyo, the Liceu in Barcelona, the San Francisco Opera, always with huge success. He has received the Critics Award and a Gold Record Award with the live recording of Don Pasquale with Luciana Serra and Enzo Dara (Nuova Era). Among his recent success it is worth mentioning Among his recent success it is worth mentioning: Il Barbiere di Siviglia in Naples, I Capuleti e i Montecchi in Paris; Don Pasquale at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, La Fille du Régiment in Vienna. Plans include L’Italiana in Algeri at the Opera in Florence.

Andriy Yurkevych – conductor*

Music Director of the Polish National Opera

After his debut at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, he earned an impressive reputation at international level with many invitations at the Monte Carlo Opera, the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, the Bayerische Staatsoper, the Liceu in Barcelona, the Teatro Municipal in Santiago (Chile), the Greek National Opera and the San Francisco Opera. Mr. Yurkevych enjoys a continuous and successful collaboration with the world famous soprano Edita Gruberova, working with her in numerous  productions. Among his most notable past engagements: Norma in Paris (Salle Pleyel), Nice, Palermo and Cologne; The Swan Lake,  Anna Bolena in Florence; Pique Dame, Der Fliegende Holländer, Rigoletto, Madama Butterfly and Nabucco in Warsaw; Roberto Devereux in Zürich, Vienna and Madrid; Aida in Riga; The Swan Lake in Rome; Lucia di Lammermoor in Budapest; Evgenij Onegin in Munich. In Berlin he conducted L’Elisir d’Amore (Staatsoper) and Anna Bolena (Deutsche Oper), a title he also conducted at the Opernhaus in Zurich and at the Wiener Staatsoper with Anna Netrebko in the title role.

Active also in the symphonic field, he conducted concerts with the Orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali in Milan and the Münchner Symphoniker, being immediately reinvited. Mr. Yurkevych also served as Music Director of the National Theatre in Odessa and as General Music Conductor at the National Opera and Ballet Theatre of Republic of Moldova in Chisinau. As Music Director at the Teatr Wielki in Warsaw, he recently conducted Evgenij Onegin, Nabucco, Maria Stuarda, Guillaume Tell and Madama Butterfly and in the next months he will conduct the Polish classic opera Straszny dwór (The Haunted Manor, new production by David Pountney) by Moniuszko, Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet, revivals of Manon Lescaut, Nabucco and Maria Stuarda as well as symphonic concerts. Plans include:Don Carlo in Düsseldorf; Madama Butterfly in Tokyo; Le Duc d’Albe in Antwerp.