Marianna Pizzolato - mezzo-soprano

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 Fe 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. After her recent success as Isabella in L’Italiana in Algeri in Florence, Bruno Campanella conducting and Joan Font directing, and in Toulouse a new production by Laura Scozzi, Marianna Pizzolato’s future plans include: Tancredi (title role) in Santiago de Chile and in Bremen (concert version) with Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone conducting; Il Viaggio a Reims at Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow; La Donna del Lago at Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège, Michele Mariotti conducting; 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; Chausson’s Poème de l'amour et de la mer with the Bremer Philharmoniker in Bremen; Beethoven’s 9^th 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 in Rossini’s Guillaume Tell.

Aquiles Machado - Tenor

Internationally sought-after tenor Aquiles Machado recently performed: Tosca in Leipzig, at Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Beijing, Berlin (Deutsche Oper) and Vienna (Wiener Staatsoper); Carmen, Un Ballo in Maschera, Faust in Las Palmas; Simon Boccanegra in Zurich and more recently in Las Palmas opposite Leo Nucci; Madama Butterfly in Torre del Lago and Vienna; La Bohème in Valencia, Riccardo Chailly conducting and in Rome (Caracalla) and Dresden; Norma in Bologna; Il Trovatore at the Sferisterio Opera Festival in Macerata; La Traviata in Oviedo, Valencia and Florence, both under Zubin Mehta; Roméo et Juliette in Liège; Carmen in Bilbao and in Minorca; I Due Foscari in Toulouse and in Barcelona (concert version opposite Placido Domingo); Cavalleria Rusticana in Pamplona; Madama Butterfly and Carmen in St.Petersburg; Tosca in Cagliari (Gianluigi Gelmetti conducting), in Torre del Lago and at Opera in Rome (Donato Renzetti conducting); Don Carlo and La Traviata at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow; Rigoletto in Pamplona; Un Ballo in Maschera with the Israel Philarmonic Orchestra and Zubin Mehta; La forza del Destino at the Grand Théâtre in Geneva, Paolo Arrivabeni conducting; La Vida Breve in Cincinnati. Aquiles Machado performed Verdi’s Requiem in Bologna, then on tour in Moscow at the Rostropovich Festival under Michele Mariotti, in Cincinnati and St. Louis under Raphael Frühbeck de Burgos, at the Gewandhaus Leipzig under Anthony Bramall and more recently he sang series of gala concerts in Tokyo.

Plans include: Werther (title role), La Forza del Destino (Don Alvaro) in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria; Madama Butterfly at Teatro di San Carlo in Naples; Puccini’s Messa di Gloria in Bilbao; concerts at the Teatro Regio in Parma and in Saarbrücken.