Biagio Pizzuti - Dottor Dulcamara

Performances: Brescia: October 13^th; Cremona: October 20^th; Trento: November 16^th, 17^th; Como: January 12^th

Young Italian baritone, he recently performed Schaunard in La Bohème and Gregorio in Roméo et Juliette under the baton of Fabio Luisi (recorded by Decca) at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa. He sang Don Bartolo in Il barbiere di Siviglia in Bologna and performed in Cléopatre at the Withsun Festival in Salzburg as a member of the Salzburg Young Singers Project under Vladimir Fedoseyev; he then appeared as Betto di Signa in Gianni Schicchi at the Theater and der Wien and was then involved in another production of the same opera at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence and as Leporello in Don Giovanni in Maribor. Future plans include: Don Giovanni (Masetto) at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, La pietra del paragone at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris and Il Viaggio a Reims at the Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam.

Francesco Vultaggio - Belcore*/ Dottor Dulcamara

Performances: Brescia: October 11^th , 13^th*; Cremona: October 18^th, 20^th*; Trento, November 16^th*; Como: January 11^th, 12 ^th*; Pavia: January 19 ^th, 20 ^th

Young and up and coming baritone Francesco Vultaggio attended the Accademia Rossiniana in Pesaro with Aberto Zedda and he is furthering his studies under the guidance of Simone Alaimo. Among his recent engagements it is worth mentioning: Viaggio a Reims (Don Profondo) at the Rossini Opera Festival; Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali (W. Humburg conducting) and Le nozze di Figaro (Conte d’Almaviva) at the Teatro Bellini in Catania, L’elisir d’amore at the Teatro Verdi in Sassari, and Schaunard in La Bohème in Novara.