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Kenneth Tarver - Conte d’Almaviva
(June 14th, 17th, 20th, 22nd)
Kenneth Tarver is considered to be one of the outstanding belcanto
tenore-di-grazia of his generation, acknowledged for his beauty of tone,
virtuosic technique, extensive and even vocal range, coupled with an attractive
and elegant stage presence. He has appeared in prestigious opera houses,
including the Royal Opera House-Covent Garden, Wiener Staatsoper, Deutsche Oper
Berlin, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Bayerische Staatsoper, Dresden Semperoper,
Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Opéra Comique in Paris, Theatre de La
Monnaie in Brussels, Metropolitan Opera in New York, Teatro San Carlo in Naples
and the Festival in Aix-en-Provence. Mr. Tarver regularly collaborates with
conductors such as: Claudio Abbado, James Levine, Alberto Zedda, Ricardo
Chailly, Carlo Rizzi, Bobby McFerrin, Frans Brüggen.
Plans include: La
Cenerentola in Beaune under J-C Spinosi; Il Barbiere di Siviglia in
Berlin (Staatsoper) and Padua; Salome (Narraboth) in Sassari; Bach’s Magnificat with
Il Giardino Armonico and Giovanni Antonini in Wroclaw.
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Matteo Macchioni - Conte d’Almaviva (June 15th, 18th,21st)
Young and promising artist he made his debut at the Teatro Verdi in Salerno as
Nemorino in L’Elisir d’Amore under the baton of Daniel Oren, after that
he performed Il Conte d’Almaviva in Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the
Festival Internazionale in Stresa. Mr Macchioni is finalist at the
"Pavarotti international voice competition" (2008) and at the Toti Dal Monte
Prize in Treviso (2012). He recorded for the label Sugar.
Matteo
Macchioni returns to Genoa where he performed in Le Nozze di Figaro.
Plans include:
Adriana Lecouvreur at the As.Li.Co circuit in Italy and he will attend
the Accademia Rossiniana in Pesaro with Alberto Zedda.
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Francesco Cilluffo - conductor
(June 14th, 17th, 18th,20th)
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.
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