Serena Daolio - Soprano

Winner of numerous international lyric contests such as Viñas in Barcelona and the Renato Bruson Contest in Parma, Serena Daolio made her debut in 2001 as Violetta in La Traviata at the Teatro Bonci in Cesena. One year later, she performed in Iphigénie en Aulide at the Teatro alla Scala under Riccardo Muti, thus beginning an international career that brought her to important international stages. Among her recent successful appearances, it is worth mentioning: Carmen (Micaëla) at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino; Turandot (Liù) with the Israel Philarmonic Orchestra in Tel Aviv, Zubin Mehta conducting; Cordelia in Cagnoni’s Re Lear at the Martina Franca Festival (CD released by Dynamic); Suor Angelica in Puccini’s Il Trittico in Messina; Magda in La Rondine in Palermo with the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana; Madama Butterfly in Cesena under Paolo Olmi. More recently, Serena Daolio gained great success as Mimì in La Bohème at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, as Liù in Turandot in Florence, Zubin Metha conducting, and as Desdemona in Otello in Cagliari, where she also recently starred in Verdi’s Requiem. She has just made her debut as Leonora in Il Trovatore at the Teatro Sociale in Como and at the Kiel Opera.

Cristina Melis - mezzo-soprano

Winner of the International Lyric Contest “Giacomo Lauri Volpi” and the International Contest “Giuseppe Verdi” in Parma, Cristina Melis debuted as Azucena in Il Trovatore in Parma. She recently performed as Bergère, Un Pâtre, La Chatte, l’Ecureuil in Ravel’s L’Enfant et Sortileges under Yves Abel at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, where she also starred in Schumann’s Manfred under the baton of Michele Mariotti and in La Gioconda (La Cieca). It is worth mentioning her collaboration with the Arena in Verona, where she performed in Carmen, Traviata, Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette and in a series of concerts on tour in Europe (Madrid, London, Brussels, Berlin, Dusseldorf). She made her debut as Cenerentola and as Isabella in L’Italiana in Algeri at the Teatro Regio in Turin, as Carmen in Bergamo, as Azucena in Il Trovatore and Amneris in Aida in Parma, Fenena in Nabucco on tour in Italy. Cristina Melis recently sang Il Trovatore at the Opera in Kiel and at the Teatro Donizetti in Bergamo. Mrs Melis collaborated with such conductors as Bartoletti, Morandi, Severini, Beltrami, Gatti, Wilson, Dinic, Campanella, Rizzi, Carella, De Bernart, Oren, Conlon, Armiliato, Mariotti, Kovatchev, Arrivabeni, Jurowski and directors such as De Ana, Zeffirelli, Micheli, Sammaritani Pier’Alli, Franconi Lee, Cannito.

Alessandro Liberatore – Tenor

Increasingly on demand at the international level, he is the interpreter of such titles as: La Bohème (Deutsche Oper in Berlin, Palm Beach Lyric Opera and in Hong Kong), Rigoletto (Teatro Massimo in Palermo), Madama Butterfly (Florida Grand Opera in Miami), La Clemenza di Tito (Bergen), La Traviata (Teatro Verdi in Trieste and Manoel Theatre in Malta), Nabucco (Venice, Genoa, Cagliari and Sassari), Thaïs and Idomeneo (Arbace) at the Teatro Regio in Turin; Elisir d'Amore in a production of Teatro Regio in Turin on tour in Italy; Macbeth (Macduff) in Sassari; I Capuleti e i Montecchi at the Opera in Rome; and Der Rosenkavalier (Italian Singer) in Barcelona and Madrid.

Alessandro Liberatore recently performed Lucia di Lammermoor in Rovigo; Rigoletto at the Teatro Nacional de Sao Carlos in Lisbon; La Traviata in Rouen; Madama Butterfly in Cesena; Nabucco and a series of concerts at the Tiroler Festspiele in Erl, Gustav Kuhn conducting. Mr. Liberatore has just made his exciting debut in Verdi’s Requiem in Cagliari and gained great success as Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly in Tampere. He then performed Nabucco and Petite Messe Solennelle in Erl; Rigoletto in Lisbon; Lucio Silla (title role) at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona;

His future projects include: Verdi’s Requiem in Toblach; Rota’s Mysterium in at the Vatican City and at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, where he will also sing in Verdi’s Otello (Cassio).