Luciana D’Intino - Santuzza*

One of today’s most appreciated mezzo, after her outstanding success in Aida at the Covent Garden in London, the Sunday Times wrote: «a glorious mezzo soprano...the most exciting Italian singer in her role in the last years». Particularly appreciated in the Italian and French repertoire, she has established an extraordinary international career, performing regularly on the world’s most prestigious concert stages and opera houses with such conductors as Salvatore Accardo, Daniel Barenboim, Semyon Bychkov, Myung-Whun Chung, Colin Davis, Daniele Gatti, James Levine, Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti and George Prêtre.

Plans include: Verdi’s Requiem at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Il Trovatore in Vienna and Adriana Lecouvreur in Monte Carlo.

Cristina Melis - Mamma Lucia

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 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, Düsseldorf). 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 and Madama Butterfly at the Opera in Kiel, El Amor Brujo in Cagliari, Evgenij Onegin and Bruckner’s Te Deum at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna.  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.

Plans include: Olga in Eugenij Onegin and Adriano in Rienzi at the Opernhaus in Kiel.