Marianna Pizzolato - Isabella
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 is now considered
one of the foremost voices of our time. Ms. Pizzolato regularly sings in the most
prestigious theaters and festivals in the world as Royal Opera House Covent Garden
in London, Opéra National de Paris, Nikikai Opera Theatre in Tokyo, Sante Fè Opera
Festival, Belcanto Opera Festival in Wildbad, Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville,
Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège, Teatro di
San Carlo in Naples, Teatro Massimo in Palermo working with conductors such as Bruno
Campanella, Daniele Gatti, Riccardo Muti, Antonio Pappano, Alberto Zedda just to
name a few.
Plans include: Tancredi (title role) in Santiago de Chile and in Bremen
(concert version) with Accademia Bizantina and Ottavio Dantone conducting; Il Viaggio
a Reims at Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow; Rossini’s Stabat Mater with
the Accademia di Santa Cecilia (Rome) in Edinburgh under the baton of Antonio Pappano
and at the Tanglewood Festival with the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Charles
Dutoit; Verdi’s Requiem in Bolzano with the Haydn Orchestra; Chausson’s Poème
de l'amour et de la mer with the Bremen Philharmoniker in Bremen; Beethoven’s
9th Symphony at the Festival de St. Denis with the Orchestre National
de France, Michele Mariotti conducting and at the Menuhin Festival Gstaad (concert
and recording) and in Wroclaw under the baton of Giovanni Antonini. Ms. Pizzolato
will make her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York singing Hedwige in Guillaume
Tell.
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Victoria Yarovaya - Zulma
Young Russian singer, winner of Francisco Viñas international competition, Victoria
Yarovaya, specialized at the Accademia Rossiniana in Pesaro under the guidance of
Alberto Zedda, making her debut as Marchesa Melibea in Il Viaggio a Reims
at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro. Recent engagements include: Dido in Dido
and Aeneas, Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia and Romeo in I Capuleti
e i Montecchi at the Moscow Novaya Opera Theatre; La Cenerentola
(title role) at Scottish Opera (Glasgow); Suzuki in Madama Butterfly at Opéra
in Lille and at the Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg; Falliero in Rossini’s Bianca e Falliero
at the Rossini Festival in Wildbad; L’Italiana in Algeri (Isabella) at Opera
in Florence, Bruno Campanella conducting; Rossini’s Messa di Gloria at the
Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, Donato Renzetti conducting. Plans include:
L’Italiana in Algeri as Isabella at the Opéra in Rennes (then on tour in
France); Demetrio e Polibio at the Rossini Festival in Wildbad; Così fan tutte
for Opera Lombardia circuit in Italy (Como, Pavia, Brescia, Cremona); Rimskij-Korsakov’s
Sadko (Ljubava) in Antwerp; Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia at Finnish
National Opera in Helsinki and in Moscow.
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Laura Scozzi - director
Laura Scozzi lives in France. She studied at the Accademia d'Arte Drammatica
in Rome and later at Ecole de Mimodrame Marcel Marceau de Paris while studying also
Sociology and, her great passion, Photography. In 1994, she founded the company
“Opinioni in Movimento”, directing several productions combining dance, text and
singing. As a guest choreographer, she created The 7 Deadly Sins for the
ballet of the Opera de Paris and My Relationships With Men Were Never Very Clear
for the Junior Ballet de Cannes. In 1999, she started using Hip-Hop style in Étant
donné la conjoncture actuelle and continued in 2000 in the musical A Chacun son
Serpent by Boris Vian. Other creations include: Sol à sol avec poids,
Quelque part par là and her latest creation Barbe Neige et les 7 petits cochons
au bois dormant, which is still on tour and is currently having great success
both in public and press. In opera, theater and film, she created choreographies
for directors such as Jean-Louis Grinda, Emmanuelle Bastet, Coline Serreau, Jean-Michel
Ribes, Matthieu Poirot-Delpech. She works regularly with Laurent Pelly. In 2008,
Laura Scozzi directed her first opera Benvenuto Cellini at Staatstheater
Nürnberg. The following year, in 2009, she directed The Magic Flute (Staatstheater
Nürnberg and Opera de Bordeaux) and in 2011 Il viaggio a Reims (Staatstheater
Nürnberg). This production was nominated for Der Faust Preis as "best opera
direction".
Other productions as director include Orpheus in der Unterwelt (Opera Bern,
Opera de Bordeaux, Staatstheater Nürnberg and Opera de Marseille) and Les Indes Galantes
(Théâtre du Capitole, Opera de Bordeaux, Staatstheater Nürnberg). Plans include : Akhnaten at Theater Bonn; Barbe – Neige et les sept
petits cochons au bois dormant in tournée. Revivals of
L’Italiana in Algeri at Staatstheater Nürnberg.
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Tal Shacham - costume designer
Born in Tel Aviv, studied design at the Vital University of Applied Sciences Tel
Aviv and worked for several years as Production Designer in film and television
in Israel. In 2001 she went to Berlin to visit the Master's program for stage
and costume design at Peter Sykora at TU. After graduating, she assisted for two
years in the opera productions of Nigel Lowery before starting as a freelance set
and costume designer (2004). During her studies she began her collaboration with
the director and choreographer Constanza Macras for which she regularly designed
the set (Open for Everything, Here/After, Hell on Earth, Scratch Neukölln).
Moreover Tal Shacham collaborated with the directors Rene Brown, Itay Tiran and
Thierry Bruehl, the choreographer Christoph Winkler and the video artist Phil Collins.
She worked in theaters such as the Schaubühne Berlin, Hebbel am Ufer, Ballhaus Naunynstraße
and the Sophiensälen in Berlin, the Cameri Theatre of Tel Aviv and the Opera House
in Wuppertal. In 2012 she directed and curated the stage and set department for
the Production Infinite Jest, the final project of artistic director Matthias
Lilienthal at HAU. This production was a 24-hour theatrical adaptation of the novel
by David Foster Wallace with nine outdoor venues in the city area of Berlin and
directors such as Bianchi/Macras, Gob Squad, Peter Kastenmüller, Jan Klata, Chris
Kondek, Anna-Sophie Mahler, Richard Maxwell, Mariano Pensotti, Philippe Quesne,
She She Pop, Anna Viebrock and Jeremy Wade. In 2014 she designed the set for the
theatre production of August, Osage County (director Ilan Ronen).
In 2015 with director Yael Ronen, she collaborated on the new production The Situation
at Gorki Theater, furthermore at Wiener Volkstheater a production called Lost and
Found. In addition to her work in theatre and dance Tal Shacham has continued
her work in opera. Recent work include in 2014 set design for the contemporary opera
Der Universums Stulp by Thierry Bruehl in Wuppertaler Buehnen. In 2015 for
the Israeli Opera she designed set and costumes for Le Nozze di Figaro at
the Akko open-air festival (director Itay Tiran) and costumes for Tosca at
Theater Trier. Plans include: Julie at Theater Magdeburg and revivals
of L’Italiana in Algeri at Staatstheater Nürnberg.
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