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                                         Riccardo Zanellato - Zaccaria 
                                    
                                                         
                                             
                                            
                                               Riccardo Zanellato started a 
                                               distinguished career which saw him performing such operas as Don Carlo, 
                                               Rigoletto, La Bohème, Turandot, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Le Nozze di Figaro, I 
                                               Puritani, Don Giovanni, I Masnadieri. Regularly invited by Riccardo Muti for many 
                                               productions at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome (among others, Iphigénie en 
                                               Aulide, Moïse et Pharaon, Macbeth and Simon Boccanegra), he 
                                               collaborates with such institutions as the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Teatro 
                                               Regio in Turin, the Arena in Verona, the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, the Verdi 
                                               Festival in Parma, the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia, the Liceu in 
                                               Barcelona, the Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam, the Rossini Opera Festival in 
                                               Pesaro, the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, the Opernhaus in Zurich, the Vlaamse 
                                               Opera in Antwerp, the Opéra de Lausanne and the Accademia Nazionale di Santa 
                                               Cecilia. Mr. Zanellato recently sang Verdi’s Requiem in Naples under the 
                                               baton of Muti, in Vilnius with Violeta Urmana, in Portorico, in Cagliari, in 
                                               Moscow at the Rostropovich Festival on tour with the Teatro Comunale of Bologna 
                                               and in Barcelona. Mr. 
                                               Zanellato lately starred in Luisa Miller in Bilbao, Aida at the 
                                               Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Poliuto, La Bohème at the Opernhaus in 
                                               Zurich and Macbeth at the Opéra de Lyon. Mr. Zanellato sang Banco in Macbeth at 
                                               the opening night of the last season at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Roberto 
                                               Abbado conducting and Bob Wilson directing. He then performed Nabucco at 
                                               the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, Riccardo Muti conducting, La Juive and a 
                                               New Year’s Eve Concert in Vilnius and again Nabucco in Stuttgart and 
                                               Leipzig. 
                                    
                                                  
                                     
                                       Mr. 
                                        Zanellato’s future plans include: revivals of Nabucco in 
                                        Stuttgart; La Juive in Vilnius; Simon Boccanegra at the Opéra de 
                                        Lyon and in Dresden; Norma at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris; Il 
                                        Trovatore at the Salzburg Festival beside Placido Domingo and under Daniele 
                                        Gatti. His concert activity will include Schubert’s Mass in A-flat Major in 
                                        Chicago with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Riccardo Muti conducting, and again 
                                        Verdi’s Requiem in Cincinnati and St. Louis, both under Raphael Frübeck 
                                        de Burgos. 
                                             
                                         
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