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Mario Cassi - Figaro
Mario Cassi
won the Toti Dal Monte competition in Treviso and the Zarzuela Prize in the
Operalia 2003 competition. Following commitments in the major Italian and
European theaters, of particular interest it is Don Pasquale (Dottor
Malatesta) under the baton of Riccardo Muti at the Teatro Alighieri in Ravenna
then on tour at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow and at the Musikverein in Vienna,
he made his debut at Teatro alla Scala in Milan in Pagliacci (Silvio). Mr
Cassi recently starred as Marcello in La Bohème at the Teatro alla Scala
in Milan, Figaro in Le Nozze di Figaro at the Rossini Opera Festival
(then recorded under the baton of Alberto Zedda), Figaro in Le Nozze di
Figaro in Liège, then he performed Dandini in La Cenerentola at the
Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia, Figaro in I Due Figaro in
Madrid and Buenos Aires, Riccardo Muti conducting. He has just sung
L’Italiana in Algeri in Liège under Bruno Campanella.
Future plans:
Il Barbiere di Siviglia
in Madrid; Così fan tutte at
the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari; Don Pasquale and at the Teatro dell’Opera
in Rome; L’Elisir d’Amore in Florence and Vienna (Wiener Staatsoper);
Pagliacci at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse; La Cenerentola, Die
Zauberfloete and Lucia di Lammermoor at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie
in Liège; L’Italiana in Algeri (Taddeo) at the Rossini Opera Festival in
Pesaro. Mario Cassi
will star the Aids Gala in Dusseldorf and a series of concerts in Kazan with the
Tatarstan Symphony Orchestra.
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Paata Burchuladze - Don Basilio*
The acclaimed debut at Royal Opera House Covent Garden in Aida conducted
by Zubin Mehta, alongside Katia Ricciarelli and Luciano Pavarotti, marks the
beginning of a brilliant international career that saw him as a guest of top
musical institutions such as: the Teatro alla Scala (Nabucco, Luisa Miller,
Simon Boccanegra, Macbeth ), the Wiener Staatsoper (Luisa Miller, Boris
Godunov, Khovanshcina), the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich (Boris
Godunov, Don Carlos, Macbeth, Aida), Opera Bastille in Paris (Faust,
Nabucco), the San Francisco Opera (Prince Igor, Aida), the
Metropolitan Opera (Boris Godunov, Don Giovanni, Aida, Khovanshcina). He
recorded for Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, EMI and Philips. In the next future Mr.
Burtschuladze will star in Don Carlo at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in
Florence.
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