Nicola Alaimo - Guillaume Tell

Following recent critically-acclaimed performances at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan (Don Pasquale- title role), Teatro dell’Opera in Rome (Attila, Ezio, Riccardo Muti conducting) Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro (Matilde di Shabran, Aliprando), London (Belisario- title role, recorded by Opera Rara) Opéra de Paris (La Cenerentola, Dandini) Nicola Alaimo returns to Amsterdam in the title role of this exciting Rossini’s masterpiece.

Mr. Alaimo’s future plans include: Falstaff at the Fundaçao Calouste Gulbenkian in Lisbon and in Marseille; Stiffelioo (Stankar) at the Opera de Monte Carlo; Il Trovatore at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam; Don Pasquale at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome; Luisa Miller in Liège; La Traviata at the Teatro Regio in Turin; Simon Boccanegra (Paolo) at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona beside Placido Domingo in the title role; L'Elisir d'Amore (Dottor Dulcamara) in Berlin and Munich; Guillaume Tell at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro and in Brussels; Don Quichotte in Chicago. He will also star in important future productions at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.

Paolo Carignani - conductor

With a vast repertory spans from Donizetti to Puccini, Rossini to Strauss and Verdi, Paolo Carignani has collaborated with the world's most prestigious theatres, such as the Wiener Staatsoper, Berliner Staatsoper and Deutsche Oper Berlin, Bayerische Staatsoper, Royal Opera House-Covent Garden, Opéra National in Paris, Zurich Opernhaus, Concertgebouw and Royal Opera House in Amsterdam, Metropolitan Opera in New York, Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, and opera houses in Brussels, Antwerp and Oslo as well as Italy's major opera houses.

Paolo Carignani future plans include: Traviata and Nabucco at the Wiener Staatsoper; Nabucco at the New National Theater in Tokio; Il Trovatore, Falstaff, Otello at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich; Otello in Zurich; Rigoletto in Strasbourg; concerts in Dallas, in Tokio at the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra and in Amsterdam with the Nederlandse Philarmonisch Orkest. In the next seasons he will also conduct: Tosca, Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci, Andrea Chénier and La Fanciulla del West at the Wiener Staatsoper; Tosca at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona; Le Villi with the Orchestre National de France in Paris; L’Amico Fritz in Strasbourg; La Traviata, Nabucco, Il Trovatore, Norma at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich; Carmen in Toronto; a series of symphonic concerts with the Orchestra Regionale Toscana in Florence. Paolo Carignani will be engaged in important productions at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.