Alessandra Marianelli – Gasparina

Alessandra Marianelli is considered one of the most promising sopranos of her generation. Still very young, Ms. Marianelli started an international career that brought her to sing in major opera houses and festivals. In September 2010 she made her US debut performing in Don Giovanni with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Roberto Abbado conducting. Ms. Marianelli recently added important roles to her repertoire: Musetta (La Bohème) in Riga and Florence, Cherubino (Le Nozze di Figaro) at the Teatro Real de Madrid, Juliette (Roméo et Juliette) at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, under Fabio Luisi. Recent engagements include: Spontini’s La Fuga in Maschera (Corrado Rovaris conducting), then revived in Naples, La Sonnambula in Monte-Carlo and in Bari, Carmen (Micaëla) at the Macerata Opera Festival and at the Teatro Regio in Turin, Gianandrea Noseda conducting, Ricciardo e Zoraide (Zoraide) and Il Viaggio a Reims in Bad Wildbad, Così fan tutte in Cagliari, La Bohème (Musetta) at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa. Ms. Marianelli recently made her debut as Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni and as Flaminia in Haydn’s Il Mondo della Luna in Monte-Carlo.

Among her future plans, it is worth mentioning: Euridice in Orfeo ed Euridice at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples and Donna Anna in Don Giovanni in Tokyo. She will also participate in Martinů’s Julietta at the Opernhaus in Zurich.

Clemente Antonio Daliotti - Il Cavalier Astolfi

Young and promising Italian baritone, Clemente Antonio Daliotti graduated in singing at the “G. Martucci” Conservatory in Salerno. He then attended the Rossini Academy in Pesaro under the guidance of Alberto Zedda and the Academy of Santa Cecilia in Rome, studying with Renata Scotto, Cesare Scarton and Anna Vandi. A winner of the International Contest Tito Schipa in Lecce (2012), he performed L’Elisir d’amore (Dulcamara) at the Politeama Greco in Lecce. After his debut as Fiorello in Il Barbiere di Siviglia in Bari (under Lorin Maazel) and in Pesaro (under Alberto Zedda) and as Haly in L’Italiana in Algeri in Bologna, Clemente Antonio Daliotti starred in the first modern revival of Spontini’s La Fuga in Maschera, at the Teatro Pergolesi Spontini in Jesi (under Corrado Rovaris) and then at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples. He also sang Pallante in Handel’s Agrippina at the Festival International Musique Baroque de Beaune under Federico Maria Sardelli, then he performed Taddeo in L’Italiana in Algeri in Catania, Schaunard in La Bohème in St. Margarethen, Guglielmo in Così fan Tutte in Sassari, Dandini in La Cenerentola in Treviso and Ferrara and the world premiere of Battistelli’s Il Medico dei Pazzi in Nancy, a production that will be revived at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice.

Luca Dall’Amico - Fabrizio dei Ritorti

Luca Dall’Amico was chosen by Riccardo Muti for the role of Agamemnon in Iphigénie en Aulide at the Opera in Rome. He was one of the four soloists of the 2011 Ravenna Festival final concert conducted by Muti in Ravenna and revived in Piacenza and Nairobi. Among his recent engagements: Macbeth (Banco) and Attila (Leone) under the baton of Riccardo Muti at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome; Le Nozze di Figaro in Ancona; Petite Messe Solennelle at the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome; Barbiere di Siviglia in Venice; Madama Butterfly and Tosca in Torre del Lago; Les Pécheurs de perles at the Teatro Regio in Parma; title role of Don Giovanni in Ivrea (Italy); Simon Boccanegra and Nabucco with the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome on tour in Tokyo; Aida (Ramfis) in St. Margarethen

Plans include: Aida  (Il Re) at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome and Falstaff with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, both under the baton of Riccardo Muti; Turandot (Timur) in Liège.

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:  Zemlinsky’s Der König Kandaules  at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo; a cycle of concerts with the Orquesta Filarmónica de Santiago (Chile); Mozart’s  Requiem  (Levin edition), Duruflé’s Requiem op. 9 and Shostakovich’s  Symphony no. 14  with the Orchestra Filarmonica di Torino (in the framework his 3-year long collaboration with the orchestra); Verdi’s Il Trovatore  for the AsLiCo (Associazione Lirico Concertistica Italiana); a concert tour with the Orchestra del Teatro Lirico di Cagliari; concerts with the ORT-Orchestra della Toscana and Cinzia Forte. He obtained a great success conducting Cilea’s L’Arlesiana  for the opening of the 2013-2014 season of Teatro Pergolesi in Jesi (filmed in DVD by Dynamic). He then conducted: a Verdi Gala  at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow with the soloists and the orchestra of the Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Centre; Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana at the Nuovo Teatro Comunale in Sassari; a new production of Rossini’s  Tancredi  for the Circuito Lirico Lombardo (Pavia, Cremona, Como and Brescia), featuring the Orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali; a new production of Rossini’s La Cambiale di Matrimonio at the Teatro Regio in Parma and in Reggio Emilia (with an introduction by Alessandro Baricco); Il Barbiere di Siviglia  at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa.

Future engagements include: a Verdi Gala for the Verdi Festival in Parma; L’Elisir d’amore  at the Teatro Regio in Parma and at the Teatro Comunale in Modena; the world première of Marco Tutino’s opera  Le braci   (based on Sándor Márai’s novel Embers) at the Festival della Valle d’Itria, Martina Franca and then at the Maggio Musicale in Florence;  La Traviata at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège .