Angela Nisi - Kristina
Born in Brindisi, Angela Nisi made her debut as Micaëla in Carmen in
Bassano del Grappa. She then performed Valtinoni’s Pinocchio in
Turin; Lucia di Lammermoor (Lucia) and Don Giovanni (Donna
Anna) in Bassano del Grappa; Oscar in Un ballo in maschera in Catania;
Violetta in La Traviata at the Varna Summer Festival and in Essen;
Giulietta in Verdi’s Un giorno di regno at the Reate Festival.
Ms. Nisi recently sang Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle at the
Accademia Nazionale Santa Cecilia in Rome with Antonio Pappano; Don Giovanni (Donna
Anna) in Bangkok; Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda (Clorinda)
in Rome; Carmen (Micaëla) at the Cortona Mix Festival and in
Florence with the Orchestra della Toscana; Mozart’s Requiem in
Benevento; Rota’s Mysterium at the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari; Fauré’s Requiem
and Verdi’s Quattro Pezzi Sacri in Cagliari.
Plans include: La Traviata in Toulon; Don Pasquale in
Rennes; Stabat Mater by Alessandro Scarlatti at the Festival Anima
Mundi in Pisa; a revival of Le Braci at the Opera di Firenze-Maggio Musicale
Fiorentino; Florence Valtinoni’s Pinocchio in Bassano del Grappa; revivals
of Le Braci at the Opera in Florence.
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Davide Giusti - Giovane Konrad
Young and promising tenor, Davide Giusti attended the Accademia di Santa Cecilia
in Rome. He is a recipient of important awards, including Belli in Spoleto, Tebaldi
in San Marino, Caniglia in Sulmona and Santa Chiara in Naples. He made his debut
as Ferrando in Così fan tutte at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia
in Rome; Kent Nagano conducted him in Le Nozze di Figaro at the
Reate Festival, then he obtained a great success performing Rossini’s Stabat
Mater under Gianluigi Gelmetti. Mr. Giusti sang La Traviata (Alfredo)
for the AsLiCo circuit in Italy, Mozart’s C minor Mass in Palermo
and Genoa, Gianni Schicchi (Rinuccio) in Cagliari and at the Accademia
Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Il Viaggio a Reims at the Rossini
Opera Festival, L’elisir d’amore in Chieti, Osnabrück and Ancona.
Davide Giusti starred in Debussy’s L’enfant prodigue in Ancona
and Cagliari, then La Traviata in Lecce, Brindisi, Darmstadt and
in Piacenza, Cristina Mazzavillani Muti directing, I Pagliacci and Gianni
Schicchi at the Teatro Regio in Parma, I Capuleti e i Montecchi (Tebaldo)
at the Reate Festival under Fabio Biondi (also recorded in CD by Glossa),
Nicolai’s Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor (Fenton) and Nemorino in L’Elisir
d’amore at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège (under Bruno Campanella), La
Bohème (Rodolfo) in Reims. On the concert side, he was engaged
in a recital in Monte Carlo and in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony in
Mannheim, Munich and Nuremberg. He recorded Rota’s Il Natale degli innocenti for
Decca with the LaVerdi under Giuseppe Grazioli.
Future plans include : Don Giovanni in Treviso and Ferrara;
a revival of Le Braci at the Opera di Firenze-Maggio Musicale Fiorentino;
La Traviata in Liège and Charleroi and in Finland with the Oulu Sinfonie
Orchester; I Capuleti e I Montecchi in Warsaw under the baton of Fabio
Biondi.
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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; concert tour s with the Orchestra del Teatro
Lirico in Cagliari and the ORT-Orchestra della Toscana. He obtained a great success
conducting Cilea’s L’Arlesiana for the opening of the 2013-2014
season of Teatro Pergolesi in Jesi (now available worldwide in CD, DVD and Blu-Ray
for the label Dynamic). He then conducted: a Verdi Gala at the
Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow and at the Verdi Festival in Parma; 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; a new production of Wolf-Ferrari’s Il Campiello for
the season’s opening of the Opera di Firenze-Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and at the
Teatro Verdi in Trieste; L’ elisir d’amore for the season’s opening
at the Teatro Regio in Parma and at the Teatro Comunale in Modena. M° Cilluffo has
just made his debut with the New Israeli Opera conducting L’ elisir d’amore.
Future engagements include: a new production of Nabucco at
the Opernhaus in Kiel; a new production of Mascagni’s Gugliemo Ratcliff at
the Wexford Festival Opera; a revival of Le Braci at the Opera di Firenze-Maggio
Musicale Fiorentino; a new production of Roméo et Juliette at the New
Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv; La Traviata at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie
in Liège and in Charleroi.
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