Annunziata Vestri - Tisbe

Eclectic artist with bold acting qualities, Annunziata Vestri can boast a huge repertoire that spans from Bel Canto to Verdi and Puccini’s masterpieces. Ms. Vestri regularly collaborates with theaters as: Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, Teatro Regio in Turin, Maggio Musicale in Florence, Teatro Comunale in Bologna, San Carlo in Naples, Opéra de Montecarlo, Teatro Regio in Parma, Wexford Festival Opera, Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago, Sferisterio Opera Festival in Macerata, Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto.

Amongst her recent engagement sit is worth mentioning: Donizetti’s Belisario and Torquato Tasso at the Bergamo Musica Festival; La Clemenza di Tito in Trieste; Il Trovatore in Schenkenberg; La Traviata in Bari; Madama Butterfly in Kiel, Florence and Bari; Rigoletto and Andrea Chénier (Madelon) in Naples; Aida (Amneris) in St. Margarethen and in Kazan; Falstaff in Marseille; L’Arlesiana and Guglielmo Ratcliff at the Wexford Festival Opera; Carmen (Zubin Mehta conducting) and Falstaff (Pinchas Steinberg conducting) at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples; La Cenerentola at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome; El Amor Brujo in Genoa. Ms. Vestri made her film debut performing as Tisbe in La Cenerentola for the Opera movie directed by Carlo Verdone, conducted by Gianluigi Gelmetti and produced by Rada Film.

Plans: Suor Angelica at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples; Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Opéra the Monte Carlo, at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris, at the Opéra in Marseille and at the Grand Theatre de la Ville in Louxembourg. As returning guest at the Opéra in Marseille, Ms. Vestri will sing Maddalena in Rigoletto.

Andrea Vincenzo Bonsignore – Dandini*

Young baritone he graduated at the G. Verdi conservatoire in Milan; he took part at the Académie Européenne de Musique in Aix-en-Provence, where he performed Leporello in Don Giovanni. Amongst his recent engagements it is worth mentioning: Il Barbiere di Siviglia and Così fan tutte for AsLiCo circuit in Italy; Signor Bruschino and La Gazzetta at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro; Don Carlo at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino under the baton of Zubin Metha; Moralès in Carmen in Livorno, Lucca, Pisa and Fano; Die Lustige Witwe at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona; Belcore in L’elisir d’Amore and Prosdocimo in Il Turco in Italia in Piacenza and Ravenna, Leo Nucci directing; Le Nozze di Figaro (Conte d’Almaviva) in Tenerife and in Kiel. Plans include: Le Nozze di Figaro (Conte d’Almaviva) at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna; Cavalli’s Erismena (Agrippo) at the Festival International d’Art Lyrique d’Aix-en-Provence then on tour in Innsbruck, Versailles and in prestigious theatres in Europe.