Daniela Mazzucato - Valencienne

One of most prominent performer of the past 20 years. Light-Lyric soprano of extremely flexible and versatile vocal artistry, she has a repertoire that ranges from Baroque (Handel, Cesti, Scarlatti, Cavalli, Landi) to Mozart and Donizetti’s leading roles. The great stage presence has also ensured her great success in the operetta repertoire. She sang at the ROH Covent Garden in London, the Paris Opera, the Hamburgische Staatsoper, the Arena in Verona, the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, the Opera in Rome, at the Festival Dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, at the New Israeli Opera Tel Aviv, at the Glyndebourne Opera Festival, as well as in Frankfurt, Bordeaux, Marseilles and Ottawa.

Mario Cassi - Danilo Danilowitsch*

Already well-established as one of the most appreciated baritones of his generation, Mr. Cassi regularly collaborates with conductors as Riccardo Muti, Bruno Campanella, Roberto Abbado, in the most prestigious theaters in Italy and abroad. Plans include: Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Figaro) in Barcelona, Florence, Monte-Carlo and in Tel Aviv; L’Elisir d’Amore (Belcore) at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples and at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich; Carmen in Cortona with the ORT; Die Zauberflöte (Papageno); La Traviata, Don Giovanni and Lucia di Lammermoor in Liège; Il Viaggio a Reims (Don Alvaro) in Amsterdam; Madama Butterfly at the Petruzzelli in Bari.

Max René Cosotti - Raoul de St-Brioche

Conductor and composer, he graduated from the Turin Conservatoire, the Guildhall School of Music and the King’s College in London. Among his most notable appearances as conductor: a new production of Tancredi for the Circuito Lirico Lombardo in Italy (Pavia, Cremona, Como and Brescia); Shostakovich’s Symphony no. 14 with the Turin Philharmonic Orchestra (in the framework his 3-year long collaboration with the orchestra); Cavalleria Rusticana in Sassari; a Verdi Gala at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow with the singers and the orchestra of the Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Center; Cilea’s L’Arlesiana for the season’s opening of Teatro Pergolesi in Jesi (filmed in DVD by Dynamic); concerts with the Orchestra del Teatro Lirico di Cagliari and the ORT-Orchestra della Toscana; a new production of Il Trovatore for the AsLiCo on tour in Northern Italy’s historical theaters; Zemlinsky’s Der König Kandaules at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo; Mozart’s Requiem and Duruflé’s Requiem op. 9 with the Turin Philharmonic Orchestra; Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde at the Festival della Valle d’Itria; concerts with the Orquesta Filarmónica de Santiago de Chile; The Servant by Tutino at the Teatro Rossini in Lugo; Le Nozze di Figaro at the Byblos Festival; a gala concert at the Scottish Opera in Glasgow. M° Cilluffo had recently made his debut at the Teastro Regio in Parma conducting La Cambiale di Matrimonio.

Future engagements include: a new production of Wolf-Ferrari’s Il Campiello at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence; La Traviata at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège; a Verdian Gala at the Festival Verdi in Parma and L’Elisir d’Amore again in Parma at the Teatro Regio, then on tour in Modena.

Donato Di Gioia - Kromow

Mr. Di Gioia lately performed La Traviata and Rigoletto on tour in Italy with the Teatro Dante Alighieri in Ravenna, Cristina Mazzavillani Muti directing; Shaunard in La Bohème at the Teatro Donizetti in Bergamo; I Due Foscari at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome; Giorgio Gérmont again in Traviata in Cosenza; Uberto in LaServa Padrona at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. Mr Di Gioia returned at the Teatro Regio in Turin where he recently sang in Traviata and Madama Butterfly.