Nicola Alaimo - Guillaume Tell

Nicola Alaimo returns to sing Rossini’s masterpiece he had already sung with great success in Amsterdam, Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro and Brussels.

Future plans include: Simon Boccanegra (Paolo) at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona opposite Placido Domingo in the title role and in Antwerp; Don Quichotte at the Lyric Opera in Chicago; Il Barbiere di Siviglia in Paris; La Traviata in London; Il Trovatore in Monte Carlo; La Gazzetta and Il turco in Italia at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro; he will also star in Zaza concert and recording for Opera Rara in London and in other important future productions at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Mr. Alaimo will star as Sir John Falstaff at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan and in Marseille.

Gianluigi Gelmetti - conductor

Music director of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo

Conductor and composer, Gianluigi Gelmetti, is one of today’s most prestigious conductors. Since his debut with the Berlin Philharmonic, the Italian conductor regularly appears on the podium of the world’s most important opera houses and festivals. M° Gelmetti was Principal Conductor of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra for ten years and Music Director of the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome from 2000 to 2009; he was Principal Conductor and Artistic Director of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. He also regularly works at the at the Royal Opera House - Covent Garden as well as in the most important theaters in the world.

In Italy he performed many works by Rossini at Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, thus receiving the Rossini d’Oro Prize for his Guillaume Tell. M° Gelmetti was honored with the title of “Chevalier de l’ordre des arts et lettres” in France and appointed “Cavaliere di Gran Croce” in Italy.

Among his recent engagements, it is worth mentioning:  Falstaff, Francesca da Rimini, Amica, Mefistofele, L’Amica and Das Rheingold at the Opéra in Monte Carlo; Guillaume Tell at the Opernhaus Zurich; La Forza del Destino in Parma, where he also conducted Un Ballo in Maschera for the season’s opening night at the Verdi Festival; Les Vêpres Siciliennes in Naples; Turandot in Tokyo; Il Barbiere di Siviglia in Toulouse; La Fanciulla del West in Liège; numerous symphonic concerts in Berlin and Copenhagen. M° Gelmetti recently conducted La Traviata and Mozart’s Requiem  in Trieste, where in the past seasons he conducted La Clemenza di Tito, Rossini’s Stabat Mater and Un Ballo in Maschera.