Rudy Park - Turiddu

Particularly appreciated in the Verdi and Verismo repertoire, he made his debut as Calaf (Turandot) in 2008 in Italy, after studying at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome. He then furthered his studies in Italy and Germany. Among his past successes, it is worth mentioning: Tosca at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona and at the Festival Puccini in Torre del Lago; Ernani at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna (and then on tour in Japan) and more recently at the Teatro Comunale in Sassari and for the Circuito Lirico Lombardo (Cremona, Como, Pavia and Brescia); Cavalleria Rusticana and Trovatore in Athens; Turandot in Genoa and Skopje; Norma in Budapest. In 2011 Mr. Park made his debut at the Nikikai Opera Foundation as Calaf in Turandot under the baton of Gianluigi Gelmetti. More recently he starred as Arrigo in I Vespri Siciliani (1861) in Athens, as Turiddu in Cavalleria Rusticana in Las Palmas and again as Calaf in Turandot in Nancy.

Future plans include: Il Tabarro (Luigi) at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa; Aida at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège; Turandot at the Michigan Opera Theatre in Detroit; Otello at the Greek National Opera in Athens.

Francesco Cilluffo - conductor

Conductor and composer, he graduated from the Turin Conservatoire, the Guildhall School of Music and the King’s College in London. Among his most notable appearances as conductor: L’Arlesiana for the season’s opening of Teatro Pergolesi in Jesi; concerts with the Orchestra del Teatro Lirico di Cagliari and the ORT-Orchestra della Toscana; a new production of Il Trovatore for the AsLiCo on tour in Northern Italy’s historical theaters; Zemlinsky’s Der König Kandaules at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo; Mozart’s Requiem and Duruflé’s Requiem op. 9 with the Orchestra Filarmonica di Torino; Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde at the Festival della Valle d’Itria; concerts with the Orquesta Filarmónica de Santiago de Chile; The Servant by Tutino at the Teatro Rossini in Lugo; Le Nozze di Figaro at the Byblos Festival; a gala concert at the Scottish Opera in Glasgow.

Future engagements include: a new production of Rossini’s Tancredi for the Circuito Lirico Lombardo (touring in Pavia, Cremona, Como and Brescia), featuring the Orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali; Shostakovich’s Symphony no. 14 with the Turin Philharmonic Orchestra (in the framework his 3-year long collaboration with the orchestra).