Serena Daolio - Leonora

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. Future plans include Verdi’s Requiem at the Anima Mundi Festival in Pisa under Aldo Ceccato.

Cristina Melis - Azucena

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. Mrs Melis collaborated with conductors such as Bartoletti, Morandi, Severini, Beltrami, Gatti, Wilson, La Vecchia, 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. Future plans include Il Trovatore in Bergamo and Basel and Verdi’s Requiem at the Anima Mundi Festival in Pisa, under Aldo Ceccato.