Silvia Frigato - soprano

Winner of the “Francesco Provenzale” International Baroque singing competition in Naples (2007), she performs at numerous prestigious concerts and festivals, including: Monteverdi Festival in Cremona; Musica e Poesia a San Maurizio in Milan; Centro di Musica Antica Pietà de' Turchini in Naples; Valle d'Itria Festival in Martina Franca; Misteria Paschalia in Kraków; KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen in Hannover; Festival de Radio France in Montpellier, to name only a few. She regularly collaborates with such artists as Rinaldo Alessandrini, Gianluca Capuano, Claudio Cavina, Ottavio Dantone, Antonio Florio, Lorenzo Ghielmi, Philippe Herreweghe, Sigiswald Kuijken and such ensembles as Collegium Vocale Gent, Accademia Bizantina, La Divina Armonia, La Venexiana, I Turchini, Gambe di Legno Consort, Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca. She has recorded for Tactus, Brillant and Glossa and her recordings have been broadcasted by RAI Radio 3, Radio France, ORF and many others. She recently sang Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater with Concerto Italiano and Rinaldo Alessandrini beside Sara Mingardo at the Salle Gaveau in Paris, Lulier’s Christmas Oratorio in Mauerbach with Gambe di Legno and Paolo Zuccheri (recorded for ORF) and a baroque concert in Venice with the Orchestra of the Teatro La Fenice under the baton of Stefano Montanari.

Future plans: Caccini’s Euridice (Euridice and Tragedia) at the Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik; Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo (role of Euridice) at the Paris Opera under Rinaldo Alessandrini, in the renowned production by Robert Wilson.

Annunziata Vestri - mezzo

Winner of “Laura Volpi”, “Maria Caniglia” and Rosertum Lyric Contests, she made her debut in 2003 as Suzuki. An eclectic artist with bold acting qualities, she can boast a huge repertoire that spans from Bel Canto to Verdi and Puccini's masterpieces. She recently sang Preziosilla in La Forza del Destino at the Teatro Regio in Parma and Ninetta in Les vêpres siciliennes at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, both of them conducted by Gianluigi Gelmetti. She also performed Il viaggio a Reims in Florence, Elektra at the Teatro dell’ Opera in Rome, Madama Butterfly in Bergamo and Novara, Rigoletto in Pisa; she was Irene in Donizetti’s Belisario, for the opening production at the Donizetti Festival in Bergamo and she enjoyed a great success as Rosa Mamai in L’Arlesiana at the Wexford Festival Opera. She made an outstanding TV debut in Carlo Verdone’s movie "La Cenerentola", Rada Film production.

Future plans: Maddalena in Rigoletto and Dvorak’s Stabat Mater at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa and Falstaff at the Opéra in Marseille.