Raffaella Lupinacci - Dorabella

Young up-and-coming Italian mezzo, Raffaella Lupinacci is a prizewinner of the 2013 AsLiCo Competition. Ms. Lupinacci made her operatic debut in 2011 as Tisbe in Rossini’s Cenerentola, and then as Giovanna and Paggio in Verdi’s Rigoletto at Teatro “A. Rendano” in Cosenza. She attended the Accademia Rossiniana in Pesaro in 2012, making her debut as Marchesa Melibea in Rossini’s Il Viaggio a Reims. She was reinvited in Pesaro in 2013 for L’Italiana in Algeri. More recently she sang: Mary in Der Fliegende Hollaender for the AsLiCo Opera Domani project, which toured many theaters in Northern Italy; Maometto II (Calbo) on tour in Switzerland; Rossini’s Otello and a Verdi Gala in Antwerp; Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle in Saint-Etienne under Alberto Zedda. She recently made her debut in the Circuito Lirico Lombardo singing in Rossini’s Tancredi (Tancredi and Isaura) and in Verdi’s Otello (Emilia).

Plans include: Aureliano in Palmira (Publia) at the Rossini Opera Festival; Nabucco (Fenena) for the Circuito Lirico Lombardo in Cremona, Brescia, Como, Pavia; La Forza del Destino at the Teatro Regio in Parma.

Lorenzo Regazzo - Don Alfonso / Stage Director

Being a renowned interpreter of Mozart and Rossini, acclaimed in the Bel Canto and Coloratura repertoire, for the first time Lorenzo Regazzo will both sing Don Alfonso (one of his landmark roles) and direct the young cast in this masterpiece by Mozart. Mr. Regazzo has been a regular guest at the Salzburg Festival and at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro. He collaborated with such important conductors as Simon Rattle, Riccardo Muti, Lorin Maazel, Colin Davis, Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Chailly, Daniele Gatti, Nikolaus Harnonkourt, Jesús López-Cobos and Marcello Viotti. Lorenzo Regazzo is also a world class Baroque singer, a repertoire he has performed and recorded with such Baroque music specialists as René Jacobs, Emmanuelle Haïm, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Claudio Scimone, and Andrea Marcon. Future plans include: L’Italiana in Algeri in Paris (Théâtre des Champs Elysées); Don Giovanni (Leporello) at the New National Theatre in Tokyo; Don Pasquale (title role) in Barcelona; La Cenerentola (Don Magnifico) with the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich on tour in Oman; Il Turco in Italia in Treviso and Ferrara.