Corrado Rovaris – conductor

Music Director of the Philadelphia Opera Company, Principal Guest Conductor of I Virtuosi Italiani, and Music Director at the Artosphere Festival Orchestra.

After his debut with Il filosofo di campagna by Galuppi at As.Li.Co, he initially devoted himself to the baroque repertoire, getting later close to composers such as Mozart, Haydn, Paisiello, Rossini, Donizetti, Bizet, Verdi, Puccini. He has conducted at the Santa Fe Opera Festival, the Japan Opera Foundation, the Teatro Regio in Turin, the Festival of Martina Franca. He also collaborated with the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala, the Orchestra del Maggio Fiorentino in Florence, the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, the Orchestra dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome, the Orchestra Sinfonica Giuseppe Verdi in Milan. He recently conducted La Fuga in Maschera at the Festival Pergolesi Spontini in Jesi, La Bohème in Philadelphia, Il Barbiere di Siviglia in Trieste and Pordenone, and Don Carlo at the Teatro Campoamor in Oviedo.

Future plans include: Die Zauberflöte, Powder her face, Nabucco, Ainadamar, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Don Carlo at the Philadelphia Opera Company; Golijov's Ainadamar in Oviedo; Roberto Devereux in Toronto; Don Pasquale in Santa Fe; La Betulia Liberata in Wroclaw. Corrado Rovaris will conduct a series of concerts at the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari.

Nicola Alaimo - Giorgio Gérmont

Following recent critically-acclaimed performances at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan (Don Pasquale- title role), Teatro dell’Opera in Rome (Attila, Ezio, Riccardo Muti conducting) Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro (Matilde di Shabran, Aliprando), London (Belisario- title role, recorded by Opera Rara) Opéra de Paris (La Cenerentola, Dandini), Nederlandse Opera (Rossini’s Guillaume Tell) Nicola Alaimo for the first time at the Teatro Regio in Turin, singing one of his main role.

Mr. Alaimo’s future plans include: Falstaff at the Fundaçao Calouste Gulbenkian in Lisbon and in Marseille and at the Fujiwara Opera in Tokyo; Stiffelio (Stankar) at the Opera de Monte Carlo; Il Trovatore at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam; Don Pasquale at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome; Luisa Miller in Liège; Simon Boccanegra (Paolo) at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona beside Placido Domingo in the title role; L'Elisir d'Amore (Dottor Dulcamara) in Berlin and Munich; La Cenerentola at the Salzburg Festival; Guillaume Tell at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, in Bologna and in Brussels; Don Quichotte in Chicago; Le Comte Ory (Raimbaud) at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. He will also star in important future productions at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.