Mariangela Sicilia - Isabella

Operalia Prize winner Mariangela Sicilia is one of the most exciting young sopranos to have come out of Italy in the last few years; she has been seen, in the past seasons, in Massenet's Cléopâtre (Charmionand) at the Salzburg Festival under the baton of Vladimir Fedoseyev; Il Viaggio a Reims, La Donna del Lago (Zedda conducting) and L'Italiana in Algeri at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro; Cilea's L'Arlesiana at the Wexford Festival Opera and in Jesi; Rigoletto in Bari (d. Kief). Mariangela Sicilia has recently performed L’Elisir d'Amore in Madrid (c. Piollet; d. Michieletto) and in Monte Carlo (c. Stutzman); La Pietra del Paragone (Chatelet) with Jean Christophe Spinosi and Musetta in La Bohème (c. Elder) in Paris Opera; Petite Messe Solennelle in Saint-Etienne under Zedda; Guillaume Tell at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna, (c. Mariotti; d. Vick); Orphée et Eurydice at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo; Verdi’s Quattro Pezzi Sacri (Concertgebouw) and new production of Benvenuto Cellini (Térésa- Dutch National Opera & Ballet) directed by Terry Gilliam and conducting by Mark Elder in Amsterdam; Adriana Lecouvreur in Paris.

Future plans include Guglielmo Ratcliff at the Wexford Festival Opera under Francesco Cilluffo; La Scala di Seta (Franklin conducting and Michieletto directing) and Mozart’s Requiem in Liège under Paolo Arrivabeni; Turandot (Liù) in Montpellier; La Bohème and La Petite Messe Solennelle in Palermo; Mozart Requiem in Parma; Carmen at the Teatro Regio in Turin. Ms. Sicilia will return to Concertgebouw in Amsterdam singing the Petite Messe Solennelle.

Giulio Mastrototaro - Ormondo

Giulio Mastrototaro studied under the guidance of Vito Brunetti and graduated with honors in singing at the "Claudio Monteverdi" Music Conservatory in Bolzano in 2002. He won the As.Li.Co. competition with Belcore in L'Elisir d'Amore and the "Best Performer" award for Donizetti's Pietro il Grande (recorded be Dynamic) at the Martina Franca Festival. Among his past engagements, it is worth mentioning: L’Italiana in Algeri at the Teatro Sao Carlos in Lisbon, Iphigénie en Aulide with Riccardo Muti at the Teatro dell’ Opera in Rome, Il Turco in Italia in Leipzig and Vicenza, La Cenerentola and L’italiana in Algeri in Avignon and Reims, La Gazza Ladra, La Gazzetta, in Wildbad, Le Nozze di Figaro in Potsdam, La Bohème, Così Fan Tutte and Don Checco at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Gianni Schicchi at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia conducted by Vladimir Jurowski. Mr. Mastrototaro lately sang La Cenerentola in Massy, Figaro in Le Nozze di Figaro in Frankfurt, Bartolo in Il Barbiere di Siviglia in Trento, L’Elisir d’Amore in Florence, La Cenerentola and La Traviata in Vienna, L’italiana in Algeri in Valencia, Il Turco in Italia in Treviso, Ferrara and Catania.

Plans include: Così fan tutte in Savona and Trento; and L’Italiana in Algeri Treviso, Ferrara and Massy.