Cristina Melis – Fricka

Winner of the International Lyric Contest “Giacomo Lauri Volpi” and of the International Contest “Giuseppe Verdi” in Parma, Cristina Melis debuted as Azucena in Il Trovatore in Parma. In the past seasons she performed in Ravel’s L’Enfant et Sortileges under Yves Abel in Palermo; Carmen, Traviata, Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette and in a series of concerts at the Arena in Verona; Cenerentola(title role) and as Isabella in L’Italiana in Algeri at the Teatro Regio in Turin; Azucena in Il Trovatore and Amneris in Aida in Parma; El Amor Brujo in Cagliari; Eugene Onegin, Petite messe solennelle and Bruckner’s Te Deum in Bologna; Rossini’s Stabat Mater in Reggio Emilia; Cavalleria Rusticana at the Opera di Firenze; Luisa Miller in Liège; Verdi’s Requiem under the baton of Gianluigi Gelmetti in Rome and Taranto; Scarlatti’s Stabat Mater at the Festival Anima Mundi in Pisa. Her fruitful collaboration with the Opernhaus in Kiel led her to be acclaimed in such productions as Il Trovatore, Madama Butterfly, Eugene Onegin, Nabucco and Rienzi. Plans include: Carmen (title role) at the Opernhaus in Kiel; Madama Butterfly in Naples; Carmen (title role) and Rigoletto (Maddalena) at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna.

Tatia Jibladze - Floßhilde

Young and up and coming Georgian mezzo, Tatia Jibladze attended the Tbilisi music conservatory. She subsequently moved to Italy, where she specialized at the Accademia d’Arte Lirica in Osimo, making her debut in such operas as: Die Zauberflöte (Dritte Dame); Eugene Onegin (Olga); Iolanta (Marta); Rigoletto (Maddalena); La Traviata (Flora); Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Berta); The Tsar’s Bride (Lubasha). Among her recent performances, she took part in Le Nozze di Figaro, directed by Pier Luigi Pizzi; J. Myslivecek’s L’Olimpiade at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna; Melibea in Il Viaggio a Reims at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro; Egle in Porpora’s Gli orti Esperidi with the youth ensemble of Centro di Musica Antica Pieta de’ Turchini; Carmen (title role) in Florence with the ORT-Orchestra della Toscana; Il Viaggio a Reims (Melibea) under Alberto Zedda in Osaka. As a singer in residence at the Theater-Kiel, she will perform Carmen (Mercedes and Carmen), Die Zauberflöte (Die Zweite Dame), Le Nozze di Figaro (Cherubino), Die Walküre (Waltraute), Orfeo ed Euridice (Orfeo).