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Krystian Adam - Orpheus
Much in demand for the 17th and 18th serio and buffo repertoire, the Polish tenor
Krystian Adam regularly works with many of the most important conductors of the
‘historically informed practice’, such as John Eliot Gardiner, Giovanni Antonini,
Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Teodor Currentzis, Stefano Montanari, Andreas Spering,
Werner Ehrhardt, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Vaclav Luks, Fabio Biondi, Fabio Bonizzoni,
among others.
Under the baton of Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Krystian Adam just starred in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo and Vespers on
US tour with the Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists and starred in
Monteverdi’s Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda at the Wigmore
Hall in London and in Versailles; amongst his other recent engagements it is worth
mentioning: Mozart’s Great Mass in C Minor in Toulouse and Bordeaux, and
Gluck’s Le Cinesi in Bad Lauchstädt under Werner Ehrhardt . Plans
include: Le nozze di Figaro under Ivor Bolton and Adriana Lecouvreur
at the Covent Garden in London; Die Zauberflöte at the Opéra Royal
de Wallonie in Liège under Paolo Arrivabeni; Haydn’s La Canterina with
Capella Augustina and Andreas Spering for the Opening concert of the Brühler Schlosskonzerte;
Bach’s Cantata BWV 201 at the Leipzig Bachfest under Vaclav Luks;
Handel’s Messiah at the Handel Festival in Halle under Fabio Bonizzoni;
revival of Monteverdi’s Orfeo with John Eliot Gardiner and Monteverdi Choir
in Versailles.
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Francesca Aspromonte - Music/Messenger
Born in 1991, Francesca Aspromonte is rapidly establishing herself as one of the
most interesting young sopranos for the baroque and classical repertoire. After
her studies in piano and harpsichord, she entered the singing class of Maria Pia
Piscitelli. She attended several master classes with Barbara Bonney, Luciana Serra,
Victor Torrez, Gloria Banditelli and she has just completed her studies at the Mozarteum
in Salzburg under the guidance of Boris Bakow. Since 2012 she is a student of Renata
Scotto’s Opera Studio at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome. Recently
she sang the modern premiere of Cavalli’s L’Eritrea in Venice conducted
by Stefano Montanari and directed by Olivier Lexa (Teatro La Fenice production);
“Amore Siciliano” at the Musikfest Bremen and at the Festival d’Ambronay with Cappella
Mediterranea and Leonardo García Alarcón; Mozart’s La Betulia Liberata (Amital)
in Merano and Brixen with Daniel Bayer and the Streicherakademie Bozen; concerts
at the Centro di Musica Antica Pietà de’ Turchini with Stefano Demicheli; Scarlatti’s La
Giuditta (title role) at the Accademia Filarmonica Romana and Pasquini’s La
Gloria di Primavera at the Konzerthaus in Vienna, both with Concerto
Romano and Alessandro Quarta; L’isola disabitata by David Perez
in Lisbon with Divino Sospiro; Caldara’s Dafne (role title) in Venice under
Stefano Montanari. She participated in the first and second edition of the Accademia
Monteverdiana directed by Sir John Eliot Gardiner, who conducted her also in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo (Musica,
Speranza and Messaggiera) and Vespro della Beata Vergine with the
Monteverdi Choir on tour in the United States (New York-Carnegie Hall, San Francisco,
Washington, Costa Mesa, Chapel Hill).
Plans include: a new production of Rossi’s L’Orfeo (Euridice)
with Raphaël Pichon at the Opéra National de Lorraine in Nancy and on tour in France;
“Amore Siciliano” with Cappella Mediterranea and Leonardo García Alarcón in Brugge;
revivals of Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo with the Monteverdi Choir and
John Eliot Gardiner in Versailles; Monteverdi’s Vespro della Beata Vergine with
Collegium 1704 in Dresden and Prague; Haydn’s La Canterina with
Capella Augustina and Andreas Spering for the Opening concert of the Brühler Schlosskonzerte;
concerts and recording of a Haydn program with Il Giardino Armonico and Giovanni
Antonini; Cavalli’s Oristeo at the Théâtre National de la Criée
in Marseille; concerts with the Geneva Camerata and David Greilsammer in Venice
and Geneva; Scarlatti’s Santa Editta with Mare Nostrum (concert
and recording for Outhere).
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Gianluca Buratto - Charon/Pluto
A noble and round voice, Gianluca Buratto is rapidly establishing himself as one
of his most versatile basses of his generation. His recent engagements include:
Bach’s B minor Mass with Savall in Madrid and Barcelona, both Mozart
and Jommelli’s Betulia liberata with Muti in Salzburg and Ravenna
and in Wroclaw under Rovaris; Mercadante’s Virginia and La
Bohème at the Wexford Opera Festival; Ambrosini’s Il Killer di Parole (world
première), La Bohème and Rigoletto in Venice;
Mozart’s Mass in C minor KV 427 at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa
Cecilia in Rome with Nagano and in Cagliari; Bach’s Johannes-Passion with
Lopez-Banzo in Spain and Germany; Macbeth with Muti at the Salzburg
Festival, Rome and Chicago; Solbiati’s La Leggenda (world première)
in Turin with Noseda; Le Nozze di Figaro (Bartolo) in Barcelona
with Rousset; L’Incoronazione di Poppea(Seneca) at the Innsbruck Festival; La
Bohème (with Chailly) and I Due Foscari in Valencia;Macbeth at
the Teatro alla Scala in Milan; Rota’s Mysterium at the Vatican
City, in Naples, Bari and in Milan (concert and recording) with La Verdi Orchestra; Rigoletto in
Genoa under Luisi and in Bogota; Handel’s Rinaldo and Admeto at
the Theater an der Wien; Rota’s Il cappello di paglia di Firenze at
the Maggio Musicale in Florence; Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo with Rousset
and Les Talens Lyriques in Nancy and Paris; La Bohème in
Rome and in Amsterdam; I Puritani in Florence; Rigoletto
(Sparafucile) at the Sferisterio Opera Festival in Macerata; Le Duc d’Albe in
London for Opera Rara. He had just starred in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo and
Vespers on US tour with the Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists, under
the baton of Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
Plans include : revivals of Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo with the Monteverdi
Choir and John Eliot Gardiner in Versailles; Die Zauberflöte in
Liège under Paolo Arrivabeni; La Bohème in Palermo; Guglielmo
Ratcliff at the Wexford Festival Opera; Turandot in
Montpellier; I Due Foscari in Amsterdam; Faccio's Hamlet at
the Bregenzer Festspiele; Semiramide in London for Opera Rara;
Verdi’s Requiem in Manchester; Die Schöpfung at the Teatro Regio in
Turin; Turandot in Montpellier; Roméo et Juliette in Beirut . In 2016 he
will have his first solo recital at the Wigmore Hall in London.
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Royal Albert
Hall
London
August 4th, 2015
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