Francesco Ommassini - conductor

Francesco Ommassini is the music director of the Orchestra Regionale del Veneto Filarmonia Veneta. M° Ommassini opened the 2011 edition of the Verona Contemporanea Festival at the Teatro Filarmonico with the Orchestra dell’Arena di Verona and made his debut with the Orchestra dei Pomeriggi Musicali di Milano; he then conducted: Il Barbiere di Siviglia in Novara; Rigoletto and La Sonnambula in Treviso, Ferrara and Ravenna; Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, and a series of concerts at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona. More recently he conducted Don Giovanni and L’Italiana in Algeri in Treviso and Ferrara; La Scala di Seta for the OperaLombardia circuit on tour in Italy.

Plans include: La Pietra del Paragone at the Teatro Lirico in Cagliari Die Entführung aus dem Serail in Treviso and Ferrara; series of concerts in Verona with the Accademia Filarmonica and at the Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania.

Blagoj Nacoski - Licinio

After making his debut in Lucia di Lammermoor at the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome, Blagoj Nacoski was Don Ottavio besides Renato Bruson in Don Giovanni in Miskolc. Important collaborations in prestigious theaters and Festivals followed, he sang in: Teatro Regio in Parma, La Fenice in Venice, Teatro Alighieri in Ravenna, Zurich Opernhaus, Frankfurt Oper, Bayerische Staatsoper, Théatre Royal de la Monnaie in Bruxelles, Seattle Opera, Canadian Opera Company in Toronto, Teatro Bunka Kaikan, New National Theater and Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Opéra in Skopje, Opera in Warsaw, Opéra in Limoges, Gran Theatre in Aix-En-Provence, Salzburg Festival, Miskolc Opera Festival, Ohrid Summer Festival. His repertoire includes operas by Verdi, Rossini, Donizetti, Britten. He recorded for TDK, Dynamic, MR Classics.

Most recently he performed: Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni in Modena, Piacenza, Lucca and Sassari; Tamino in Die Zauberflöte in Prague; Pong in Turandot, Riccardo Chailly conducting and Spoletta in Tosca under the baton of Carlo Rizzi both at La Scala in Milan.

Plans include: Turandot in Macau; Don Giovanni, Barbiere di Siviglia and Eugene Onegin in Skopje; Tamino in Die Zauberflöte in Livorno, Pisa and Lucca.