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Umberto Chiummo - Martino
After winning the “A. Belli” Competition in Spoleto, Umberto Chiummo made
his debut in Le Nozze di Figaro, staged by Gigi Proietti. Much
appreciated also for his qualities as an actor, he performs in major opera
houses and festivals in Italy and abroad, collaborating with conductors such as
Ivor Bolton, Bruno Campanella, Myung-Whun Chung, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti and
Wolfgang Sawallisch. Recent engagements include: La Calisto at the Royal
Opera House Covent Garden, Agrippina at the Teatro Real in Madrid and in
Antwerp, Giulio Cesare alongside Cecilia Bartoli with William Christie
and Les Arts Florissants in Paris; Le Nozze di Figaro at the Teatro La
Fenice in Venice and in Munich; La Cenerentola in Strasbourg then on tour
in Mulhouse and Colmar; Mozart’s Great Mass in C minor with the Orchestra
Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI under Ivor Bolton; La Cenerentola in
Treviso and Ferrara; Die Schöpfung in Belfast; Mozart’s Requiem at
the Teatro San Carlo in Naples; Le Nozze di Figaro in Munich;
Così Fan Tutte in Antwerp. He has recorded Rodelinda, Ariodante, Don
Giovanni (Telarc), I Capuleti e i Montecchi (BMG) with Roberto
Abbado, Werther (BMG) under the baton of Vladimir Jurowski.
Future
plans: Le Nozze di
Figaro in Antwerp;
Rodelinda in Madrid; Don Giovanni (title role) in Tokyo.
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Krystian Adam - Don Eusebio
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.
Among his most notable past engagements: Rossini’s La pietra del paragone at
the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris under Jean-Christophe Spinosi; Monteverdi’s Vespro
della Beata Vergine with the Monteverdi Choir and John Eliot Gardiner in
Cambridge, Versailles, Barcelona and at the Salzburg Festival; Haydn’s Philemon
und Baucis in Montecarlo with Europa Galante and Fabio Biondi; Myslivecek’s L’Olimpiade,
with Collegium 1704 and Vaclav Luks at the Theater an der Wien; Bach’s Matthäus-Passion with
the Akademie für Alte Musik in Berlin and Munich; Bach’s B-minor mass at
the Maggio Musicale in Florence under Stefano Montanari; Handel’s Giove in
Argo at the Handel Festival in Halle with L’arte del mondo and Werner
Ehrhardt; Mozart’s Idomeneo at the Covent Garden under Mark
Minkowski.
Future plans include: L’Orfeo (title
role and Pastore I) and Vespro della Beata Vergine with the Monteverdi
Choir and John Eliot Gardiner on tour in the Unites States (New York, San
Francisco, Washington, Costa Mesa, Chapel Hill) and then in London (BBC Proms)
and Versailles; Le nozze di Figaro (under Antonio Pappano) at the Covent
Garden; Die Zauberflöte at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège; Bach’s Cantata
BWV 201 and B-minor mass on a European tour with Collegium 1704.
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