Dario Solari - Figaro
Mr Solari began his career at a very early age performing in important theaters
all around the world. Among his past engagements, it is worth mentioning: Don Carlo
with Zubin Mehta and the Israel Philharmonic; Il Trovatore in Ravenna
and then on tour in Italy; Macbeth for the 2012 season’s opening night at
the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome under Riccardo Muti, at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna
(c. R.Abbado /d. R.Wilson), in Florence at the Teatro alla Pergola in its original
1847 version (c. J. Conlon/ d. G. Vick directing), in Kiel and in Copenhagen; 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 openings of the Bergamo Musica Festival in 2012 and 2013. After his recent
successes in Toulon (Simon Boccanegra), Copenhagen (Les Vêpres siciliennes),
Kiel (Nabucco) and Florence (Madama Butterfly), Frankfurt (Stiffelio)
in the next months Mr. Solari will perform La Forza del Destino in
Genoa (Don Carlo di Vargas); Don Pasquale (Dottor Malatesta) in Uruguay; La
Traviata in Montevideo; Un Ballo in Maschera (Renato) in Toulon;
Nabucco in Leipzig; Macbeth in Copenhagen. Mr. Solari will return
to Toulouse singing Dom Sébastien roi de Portugal.
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Gregory Bonfatti - Don Basilio
A winner of the “A. Belli” competition in Spoleto, he made his debut as Don Ramiro
(La Cenerentola), starting an intense activity that brought him to many of
the most important international opera theaters, such as: Teatro alla Scala in Milan,
Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Teatro Regio in Parma, Teatro Regio in Turin, Teatro
del Maggio Musicale, Paris Opera, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Royal Opera House
Covent Garden. Gregory Bonfatti is in high demand especially for character roles
such as Dr. Cajus in Falstaff, Arlecchino in Pagliacci and Goro in
Madama Butterfly (a role he recorded for EMI with Antonio Pappano). He collaborated
with prestigious conductors such as: Riccardo Muti, Daniele Gatti, Maurizio Benini,
Gabriele Ferro, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Paolo Arrivabeni, Zoltan Pesko and Vladimir
Jurowski. Mr Bonfatti recently performed: Tchaikovsky’s The Slippers in Cagliari;
Rigoletto in Amsterdam; Haydn’s Stabat Mater in Bologna; Haydn’s La
Canterina with Cappella Augustina in Brühl; Madama Butterfly and
Turandot in Torre del Lago; Tutino’s Le Braci at the Teatro dell’Opera
in Florence; Madama Butterfly on tour in Italy.
Plans include : La Finta Giardiniera in Rennes; Don Carlo at
the Teatro Regio in Parma.
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