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                                Enkelejda Shkoza - mezzo-soprano
                             
                            
                                Winner of the International Competition "Lejla Gencer" in Istanbul, she
                                rapidly established herself as a regular guest in important theatres and festival
                                such as: Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, Teatro Regio in Turin, Opéra de Monte
                                Carlo, Opéra de Paris, Covent Garden in London, Real in Madrid, Concertgebouw in
                                Amsterdam, Wiener Staatsoper, Welsh National Opera in Cardiff, Bayerische Staatsoper
                                in Munich, Canadian Opera Company, and opera theatres in Leipzig, Dresden, Bilbao,
                                Lisbon. Enkelejda Shkosa has collaborated with such conductors as Maurizio Benini,
                                Bruno Campanella, Riccardo Chailly, Myung-Whun Chung, James Conlon, Colin Davis,
                                Daniele Gatti, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Daniel Oren, Antonio Pappano, Evelino Pidò, Donato
                                Renzetti, Marcello Viotti, only to name a few. 
                            
                                Plans: Azucena in Il Trovatore at the Sferisterio Opera Festival in
                                Macerata and at the Teatro Regio in Parma; Preziosilla in La Forza del Destino
                                in Tel Aviv; Madama Butterfly at the Teatro Real de Madrid, Marco Armiliato
                                conducting. 
                            
                             
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                                Massimiliano Pisapia - tenor
                             
                            
                                After his brilliant debuts as Riccardo in Un ballo in maschera under Riccardo
                                Chailly at the Leipzig Opernhaus, Mr. Pisapia started an intense and exciting career
                                that brought him to some of the most prestigious theaters and festival such as:
                                Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Zurich Opernhaus, Bayerische Staatsoper, Hamburgische
                                Staatsoper, Wiener Staatsoper, Opernhaus in Leipzig, Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires,
                                Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence, Teatro Municipal in Santiago de Chile, Palau
                                de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia, Teatro Regio in Turin, Arena di Verona, Teatro
                                Regio in Parma, Opéra Bastille in Paris and Festival Puccini in Torre del Lago.
                                Refined interpreter of Italian repertoire, Mr. Pisapia lately performed Poliuto
                                in Marseille and Zurich; La Traviata in Lecce; Macbeth at the Teatro
                                Filarmonico in Verona; Rigoletto at the Festival Internacional de Musica
                                de Bogotà; Tosca in Atlanta; La Bohème, I Lombardi alla Prima Crociata,
                                Madama Butterfly and Lucia di Lammermoor in Hamburg; Madama Butterfly
                                at the Teatro Regio in Turin, Pinchas Steinberg conducting; Tosca at Teatro
                                Comunale in Bologna; Aida in Bergen; Un Ballo in Maschera in Seoul.
                                Active also on the concert side, he sang Dvorak's Stabat Mater in Trieste;
                                lyric concert at the Teatro Regio in Turin; recital at the Suntury Hall in Tokyo;
                                Verdi’s Requiem in Moscow, St. Gallen and Hamburg; Aids Gala in Berlin, Donald
                                Runnicles conducting. 
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                Teatro Nacional 
                    de São Carlos
                     
                    (Sala Principal)
                 
                
                    Lisbon 
                
                      
                
                    May 5th, 2016 
                
                    May 7th 
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