Anna Corvino - Soprano
Anna Corvino attended the Scuola dell’Opera at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna where she made her debut as Magda in La Rondine under the baton of José Cura, Gilda in Rigoletto, Musetta in La Bohème, Adina in L'Elisir d'Amore, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni. More recently, she participated in La Betulia Libera production by Mozart, conducted by Riccardo Muti at the Ravenna Festival, she sang Nella in Gianni Schicchi, Napoli Milionaria! and Fauré's Requiem in Cagliari; Monsieur Chouffleury in Jesi. Ms. Corvino made her outstanding debut as Mimì in La Bohème in Salerno under the baton of Daniel Oren, she took part also at the Teatro Comunale of Bologna opening night season (2014) singing II Blumenmaedchen in Parsifal, Roberto Abbado conducting and Romeo Castellucci directing.
Active also on the concert side she has performed with the Orchestra Nazionale della RAI in Turin, the Nuova Scarlatti in Naples, the Kiev Orchestra, the Symphonette Raanana Orchestra in Israel and the Orchestra of the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago.
In the frame of the Festival Verdi, Anna Corvino will perform La Traviata (Violetta Valery) at the Teatro Verdi in Busseto.
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; 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; Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa; Il Campiello at the Opera in Florence.
Future engagements include: 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; revivals of Il Campiello in Trieste.
Teatro Regio
Parma
October 18th, 2014*