Paolo Arrivabeni - conductor

Music Director at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège

Regularly invited by the major theaters and opera festivals Paolo Arrivabeni is an expert of Italian Opera particularly interested also in great Russian and German composers; in the past seasons he had indeed conducted operas by Mahler, Strauss and Musorgskij. M° Arrivabeni recently conducted La Favorite at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris, Traviata and Macbeth in Dresden, La Forza del Destino and a Wagnerian Gala in Liège, Il Trovatore at the Sferisterio Opera Festival, Macbeth and Nabucco at the Staatsoper in Berlin, La Straniera in Marseille.

Future plans: Il Turco in Italia and revivals of Lucrezia Borgia at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich; Maria Stuarda, Nabucco and revival of Macbeth at the Staatsoper in Berlin; La Bohème at the New National Theatre in Tokyo; La Straniera at the Theater an der Wien; Don Giovanni in Monte- Carlo; La Forza del Destino at the Grand Théâtre de Genève; La Rondine in Toulouse; Moïse et Pharaon and I Due Foscari in Marseille; and Roberto Devereux at the Teatro Comunale in Florence. In Liège M° Arrivabeni will conduct Fidelio, Aida, La Cenerentola, Tosca, Les Pécheurs de Perles, Ernani, Die Zauberflöte, La Bohème, Turandot,  Nabucco, Otello.

Dario Solari - Macbeth

Dario Solari returns to sing one of his main roles he has recently sang at the season’s opening night at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna (R. Abbado conducting and R. Wilson directing) and in Florence at the Teatro alla Pergola in its original 1847 version (J. Conlon conducting and G. Vick directing).

Dario Solari began his career at a very early age performing in important theaters all around the world, such as: the Welsh National Opera (Il Trovatore, Pique Dame), the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (Carmen), the Opera in Rome (La Traviata- Franco Zeffirelli production), the Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse (La Bohème, Don Pasquale), the Vlamsee Opera in Antwerp (Don Carlo), the Savonlinna Opera Festival (Lucia di Lammermoor), at the Teatro Municipal in Santiago, Chile (Un Ballo in Maschera and Macbeth). Among his recent engagements, it is worth mentioning: Don Carlo with Zubin Mehta and the Israel Philharmonic; Conte di Luna in Il Trovatore in Ravenna and then on tour in Italy, Cristina Mazzavillani Muti directing; Macbeth for the 2012 season’s opening night at the Teatro dell' Opera in Rome under the baton of Riccardo Muti; Le Nozze di Figaro in Cardiff; Attila at the Terme di Caracalla in Rome; Belisario (title role) and Maria di Rudenz (Corrado Waldorf ) for the season’s opening at the Bergamo Musica Festival in 2012 and 2013.

Future plans include: Le Nozze di Figaro and Dom Sébastien in Toulouse; Nabucco at the Florida Grand Opera in Miami; Pagliacci (Silvio) at the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari under Paolo Carignani; Don Carlo at the Teatro Real in Madrid; Stiffelio in Frankfurt.