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, Don Carlo at the Teatro Campoamor in Oviedo, Traviata at the Teatro Regio in Turin. Future plans include: 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; La Traviata in Lausanne. Corrado Rovaris will conduct a series of concerts at the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari.

Antonio Lozano - Tamino

Born in Spain, studied under the guidance of Renata Scotto and Raoul Gimenez. Debuted titles include: Don Giovanni at the Campoamor Theatre in Oviedo, Didone by Cavalli at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, the Fenice in Venice and Turin with Europa Galante and Fabio Biondi; Salustia by Pergolesi with the Cappella della Pietà dei Turchini and Antonio Florio; Prokofiev’s Betrothal in a Monastery and Parsifal (Knapp) with Lorin Maazel at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia, La Cabeza del Bautista by Palomar at the Liceu in Barcelona, Il Prigionier Superbo at the Festival Pergolesi Spontini in Jesi and Die Entfuhrüng aus dem Serail (Belmonte) in Treviso and Philadelphia, both with Corrado Rovaris. Mr. Lozano also performed Mozart’s Requiem with the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino conducted by Christopher Hogwood for the opening of the Anima Mundi Festival in Pisa; he then appeared in The Nose at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, Boris Godunov in Madrid, Così fan tutte in Pamplona. His future plans include: L'Incoronazione di Poppea in Montpellier; Don Giovanni in Oviedo; Lohengrin and I Vespri Siciliani in Madrid; Lucio Silla in Barcelona.