Marianna Pizzolato - mezzo
Marianna
Pizzolato made her debut at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro with Il
Viaggio a Reims, becoming a reference performer for the main Rossini roles,
as well as for Baroque and eighteenth century’s repertoire. She sang in the most
prestigious theaters in the world under conductors such as Riccardo Muti,
Antonio Pappano, Alberto Zedda, Bruno Campanella and Daniele Gatti, just to name
a few. Considered one of the foremost voices of our time, Marianna Pizzolato had
recently made her outstanding debut at the Opéra de Paris as Angelina in La
Cenerentola, at the Santa Fe Opera (US debut) as Malcom in La
Donna del Lago and she just made another step into Verdian repertory making
her debut as Fenena in Nabucco at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in
London, besides Placido Domingo. Mrs. Pizzolato has just performed Orphée et
Euridyce (Berlioz vers.) at the Festival Berlioz in La Côte-Saint-André.
Future plans: Maria Stuarda and Nabucco at the Gran Teatre del
Liceu in Barcelona; Falstaff at the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari; Rota’s
Mysterium in Naples and Rome; La Cenerentola at the Opéra Royal de
Wallonie in Liège and at the Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville; L’Italiana
in Algeri at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse; Il Barbiere di Siviglia
at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples. On the concert side, Marianna Pizzolato will
perform Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle in Lucerne, Verdi's Requiem
in Turin with the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai and in Leipzig with
the Gewandhaus Leipzig. After her successful Japanese debut last March, she will
return to Tokyo for a solo concert in 2015.
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Christian Elsner- Tenor
With his
celebrated debuts at the Philhamonie Berlin in the titlerole of Wagner’s
Parsifal in a concertant version in April 2011 and at the Semperoper Dresden
as Siegmund in Wagner’s Walküre in February 2010 Christian Elsner
established himself in the first league of Wagner tenors and proves once again
his wide range of repertoire.
As concert
singer, Christian Elsner is a regular guest performer at international festivals
and in all the major concert halls around the world, from Berlin, Vienna, Milan
and London to New York and Tokyo. He has worked with conductors such as Herbert
Blomstedt, Adam Fischer, Carlo Maria Giulini, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Thomas
Hengelbrock, Marek Janowski, Mariss Jansons, Fabio Luisi, Lorin Maazel, Sir
Neville Marriner, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Sir Simon Rattle and David Zinman, and
has been involved in numerous radio productions and CD recordings.
Upcoming
engagements include
the role of Loge in a concertant version of Wagner’s Rheingold
with the RSB-Sinfonieorchestra under Marek Janowski in Bukarest, Beethovens
C-Major Mass in Munich with the BR-Symphoniyorchestra under Thomas Hengelbrock,
Beethovens 9.Symphony in Philadelphia with the Philadelphia Symphony
Orchestra under Yannick Nezet-Seguin and in Munich with the Munich Philharmonic
Orchestra under Lorin Maazel, and Mahlers Lied von der Erde with the
DSO-Berlin under Kent Nagano and with the Wiener Philhamoniker under Sir Simon
Rattle.
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Grimaldi Forum
Monte-Carlo
September 22nd, 2013
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