Cinzia Forte - Marzelline

Lyric coloratura soprano, Cinzia Forte is praised by international critics for the uncommon elegance of her phrasing and remarkable stage presence. Mrs. Forte is present on the billboards of the main Italian and European theaters such as the Teatro alla Scala, the San Carlo in Naples, The Fenice in Venice, Teatro Comunale in Bologna, the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, the Teatro Regio in Turin, the Opera in Rome, Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, the ROH Covent Garden, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Liceu in Barcelona, the Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville, the Zurich Opera House, the Théâtre des Champs-Elysees in Paris, the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège, the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Teatro Real in Madrid. Cinzia Forte has lately added important roles to her repertoire: La contessa d’Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro (Liège), Anna Bolena (title role, in Trieste), and Desdemona in Otello (Pisa and Cagliari). Mrs Forte opened the Teatro San Carlo 2013 season singing La Traviata, Michele Mariotti conducting and Ferzan Ozpetek directing, more recently she starred as Gilda in Rigoletto in Genoa, Fabio Luisi conducting and as Eleonora in Il Furioso all’Isola di San Domingo in Bergamo, Rovigo and Savona and in the next months on tour in Ravenna. She also sang a gala concert with the ORT-Orchestra Regionale for the opening of the Festival Incontri in Terra di Siena as well as Rossini’s Stabat Mater in Trieste and Ljubljana.

Mrs Forte will return to the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège, where she will perform Rossini’s La Gazzetta.

Paolo Arrivabeni - conductor

Music Director at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège.

Regularly invited by the major theaters and opera festivals Paolo Arrivabeni is an expert of Italian Operas particularly interested also in great Russian and German composers; in the past seasons he had indeed conducted operas by Mahler, Strauss and Musorgskij. M° Arrivabeni recently conducted La Favorite at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris, Traviata and Macbeth in Dresden, La Forza del Destino and a Wagnerian Gala in Liège, Il Trovatore at the Sferisterio Opera Festival, Macbeth and Nabucco at the Staatsoper in Berlin, La Straniera in Marseille, Macbeth in Copenaghen.

Future plans: Il Turco in Italia and revivals of Lucrezia Borgia at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich; Maria Stuarda, Nabucco at the Staatsoper in Berlin; La Bohème at the New National Theatre in Tokyo; La Straniera at the Theater an der Wien; Don Giovanni in Monte- Carlo; La Forza del Destino at the Grand Théâtre de Genève; La Rondine in Toulouse; Moïse et Pharaon, Boris Godunov and I Due Foscari in Marseille; and Roberto Devereux at the Teatro Comunale in Florence. In Liège M° Arrivabeni will conduct Aida, La Cenerentola, Tosca, Les Pécheurs de Perles, Ernani, Die Zauberflöte, La Bohème, Turandot,  Nabucco, Otello.