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                                Simone Alberghini - Il Conte di Luna*
                             
                            
                                Italian bass-baritone Simone Alberghini, the 1994 Operalia Grand Prize winner, has
                                appeared in opera houses at the highest level worldwide since the beginning of his
                                career. Mr. Alberghini regularly collaborates with internationally renowned conductors
                                such as Alberto Zedda, Vladimir Jurowski, Riccardo Chailly, Zubin Mehta, Andrew
                                Davis, Gianandrea Noseda, Seiji Ozawa, Maurizio Benini, Michele Mariotti, Renato
                                Palumbo, Emmanuel Villaume, Nicola Luisotti, Eduardo Muller and Teodor Currentzis. 
                            
                                Simone Alberghini recently performed in: Guillaume Tell at the Rossini Opera
                                Festival in Pesaro and at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna, Michele Mariotti conducting
                                and Graham Vick directing; Donizetti’s Il furioso all’ isola di San Domingo
                                at the Donizetti Musica Festival in Bergamo and in Savona, Modena, Ravenna and Piacenza;
                                L’Elisir d’Amore (Belcore) in Washington; Anna Bolena (Enrico VIII)
                                at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow; Così fan tutte (Guglielmo) in
                                Bologna and Firenze; Don Giovanni (title role) at the Perm State Opera under
                                Teodor Currentzis; La Bohème (Marcello) in Tenerife and in Palermo; Les Contes
                                    d’Hoffmann in Piacenza, Modena, Reggio Emilia and Toulon; La Cenerentola
                                (Dandini) in Washington, Naples and Göteborg; Mozart’s Requiem in Turin
                                with the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai; La Gazza Ladra at the Rossini
                                Opera Festival in Pesaro; Donizetti’s Requiem with the Copenhagen Philharmonic
                                Orchestra. 
                            
                                Mr. Alberghini starred in the Rada Film opera movie La Cenerentola directed
                                by Carlo Verdone and conducted by Gianluigi Gelmetti, which has been telecast worldwide.
                                Plans: Il Turco in Italia (Selim) in Piacenza and Ravenna; Carmen
                                at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna, new production by Pietro Babina; Le Nozze
                                    di Figaro (Conte d’Almaviva) at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples; La fille du
                                        régiment (Sulpice) in Barcelona; Don Giovanni with the Opera
                                de Lyon on tour in Oman. 
                            
                                *Role debut 
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                                Enkelejda Shkosa - Azucena
                             
                            
                                Winner of the International Competition "Lejla Gencer" in Istanbul, she
                                rapidly established herself as a regular guest in important theatres and festival
                                such as: Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, Teatro Regio in Turin, Opéra de Monte
                                Carlo, Opéra de Paris, Covent Garden in London, Real in Madrid, Concertgebouw in
                                Amsterdam, Wiener Staatsoper, Welsh National Opera in Cardiff, Bayerische Staatsoper
                                in Munich, Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, Canadian Opera Company, and opera theatres
                                in Leipzig, Dresden, Bilbao, Lisbon. Mrs Shkosa made her debut at the Metropolitan
                                Opera in New York as Giulietta in Les Contes d’Hoffmann. Other recent engagements
                                include: Quicky in Falstaff in Barcelona. Suzuki in Madama Butterfly 
                                at the Opéra de Paris under the baton of Maurizio Benini; Eboli in Don Carlo
                                in Lisbon; La forza del destino (Preziosilla) at the Gran Teatre de Liceu
                                in Barcelona; The Makropulos Affair in Florence; Suzuki in Madama Butterfly
                                and Falstaff (Meg) in Toulouse; Aida in Toulon; Moise et Pharaon
                                at the Opéra in Marseille; Il Trovatore in Naples and Toulon; Madama Butterfly
                                and Guillaume Tell at the Covent Garden in London. 
                            
                                Enkelejda Shkosa has collaborated with such conductors as Maurizio Benini, Bruno
                                Campanella, Riccardo Chailly, Myung-Whun Chung, James Conlon, Colin Davis, Daniele
                                Gatti, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Daniel Oren, Antonio Pappano, Evelino Pidò, Donato Renzetti,
                                Marcello Viotti,only to name a few. 
                            
                                Her discography include Rossini’s Otello (Opera Rara), Thaïs and Cavalleria
                                    rusticana (Decca), Béatrice et Bénédict and La damnation de Faust
                                with the London Symphony Orchestra. She has just recorded La Straniera with
                                David Perry for Opera Rara. She recorded Madama Butterfly (Suzuki) under
                                the baton of Antonio Pappano (EMI). For Opera Rara she has just recorded Maria di
                                    Rohan. 
                            
                                Plans include: Il Trovatore at the Teatro Regio in Parma, in Macerata and
                                in Tel Aviv where she also will perform Verdi’s Requiem as well as in Lisbon;
                                Falstaff in Naples. 
                            
                             
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                                Julian Reynolds - conductor
                             
                            
                              
                                Conductor of vast experience and sensibility, appreciated both in Italian and 
                                French repertoire, he was assistant to Claudio Abbado and Leonard Bernstein, 
                                later on tying his name to that of Dame Kiri Te Kanawa with whom he regularly 
                                runs international tours. Julian Reynolds has received numerous invitations at 
                                the Staatstheater Stuttgart, the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, the Wexford Opera 
                                Festival, the Rossini Opera Festival, the Arena in Verona, the Teatro Regio in 
                                Parma and has conducted many orchestras including: the Rotterdam Philharmonic, 
                                the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the 
                                Australian Chamber Orchestra, the Dutch Radio Philharmonic, the Netherlands 
                                Philharmonic. His recording of Ma Mère l’Oye has described by BBC Radio 3 
                                as the best commercial version. 
                            
                              
                                Recent engagements include: Maria Stuarda and La Straniera at the 
                                Tchaikovsky Hall and La Sonnambula at the Bolshoi Theatre, Lucia di 
                                Lammermoor at the Theatre de La Monnaie in Brussels and various lyric 
                                concerts in Seoul. 
                         
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                    Opera de Tenerife 
                 
                
                    Santa Cruz de Tenerife 
                
                       
                
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