Paolo Arrivabeni - conductor

Music Director at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège

Paolo Arrivabeni is regularly invited by the major theaters and opera festivals such as the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris, the Staatsoper and Deutsche Oper in Berlin, the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, the Fenice in Venice, Staatsoper in Vienna, Opernhaus in Leipzig and Zurich, Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse, the Grand Théâtre in Genève, the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, Semperoper in Dresden, Maestranza in Sevilla, Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Teatro Comunale in Bologna, Opéra in Monte Carlo and many others. Paolo Arrivabeni was guest also at the Opera Festival in Savonlinna, at the Opera Festival in Macerata and at the Santa Fe Opera Festival. An expert of Italian Opera he is particularly interested also in great Russian and German composers; in the past seasons he had indeed conducted works by Mahler, Strauss and Musorgskij. M° Arrivabeni has just gained great success conducting La Favorite at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris and Traviata in Dresden. Future plans: Il Turco in Italia and revivals of Lucrezia Borgia at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich; Macbeth in Dresden and Copenhagen; La Straniera, Moïse et Pharaon and Petite Messe Solennelle in Marseille; Il Trovatore at the Macerata Opera Festival; Macbeth, Nabucco and Maria Stuarda at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin; La Bohème at the New National Theatre in Tokyo; La Straniera at the Theater an der Wien. In Liège M° Arrivabeni will conduct Fidelio, Aida, La Cenerentola, Tosca, Les Pécheurs de Perles, Ernani, Die Zauberflöte, Turandot and a series of concerts including a Wagnerian gala.

Giuseppe Gipali - Jacopo Foscari

Refined interpreter of Verdi’s operas, his repertoire ranges from Bel Canto to Verismo, to the French Lyric repertoire, which he sang all over the world in prestigious theatres such as: Teatro alla Scala, Teatro dell’ Opera in Rome, Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Arena di Verona, Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Covent Garden in London, Wiener Staatsoper, Théâtre du Chatelet and Opera Bastille in Paris, Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse, Liceu in Barcelona, San Francisco Opera. Mr. Gipali collaborated with Riccardo Muti, Zubin Mehta, Daniele Gatti, Nicola Luisotti, Daniele Callegari and directors as Franco Zeffirelli, Mario Martone and Pierluigi Pizzi. Mr. Gipali lately performed La Traviata in Bologna, Don Carlo in Zurich, Vienna and Berlin, Il Trovatore in Marseille, Attila at the Opera in Rome and at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona.  Future plans: Norma in Toulon; Un Ballo in Maschera in Buenos Aires; Lucia di Lammermoor in Marseille. Mr. Gipali will return to Liège as Foresto in Attila.