Nicola Alaimo - Miller

Following recent critically-acclaimed performances at the Salzburg Festival (Dandini, La Cenerentola), at the Rossini Opera Festival, Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie Brussels, at the Concertgebow in Amsterdam and Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro (Guillaume Tell - title role), at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan (Don Pasquale - title role; Rimbaud, Comte Ory), at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome (Attila, Ezio, cond. Riccardo Muti and Don Pasquale, cond. Bruno Campanella), in London (Belisario - title role, recorded by Opera Rara) at the Opéra de Paris (Dandini, La Cenerentola; Fra Melitone, La Forza del Destino), at the Teatro Real de Madrid (Don Pasquale, cond. Riccardo Muti), at the Teatro Regio in Turin (Gérmont, Traviata), at the Opéra de Monte Carlo (Stankar, Stiffelio cond. Maurizio Benini), at the Metropolitan Opera ( Falstaff, cond. James Levine, L’Elisir d’Amore, cond. Maurizio Benini), in Berlin (L’Elisir d’Amore) Nicola Alaimo returns to the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège.

Future plans include: Le Nozze di Figaro in Los Angeles; Simon Boccanegra (Paolo) at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona opposite Placido Domingo in the title role; Don Quichotte at the Lyric Opera in Chicago, Yannis Kokkos directing; Il Barbiere di Siviglia in Paris; La Traviata in London; Il Trovatore and Guillaume Tell in Monte Carlo; Guillaume Tell on tour in Paris with the Opéra de Monte Carlo; La Gazzetta at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro; he will also star in Zaza concert and recording for Opera Rara in London and in other important future productions at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Mr. Alaimo will star as Sir John Falstaff at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan and in Marseille.

Cristina Melis - Federica

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, Beltrami, Gatti, Wilson, Dinic, Campanella, Rizzi, Carella, De Bernart, Oren, Conlon, Armiliato, Mariotti, Kovatchev, Arrivabeni, R. Abbado, Jurowski and directors such as De Ana, Zeffirelli, Micheli, Sammaritani, Pier’Alli, Trelinski.

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