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                                         Riccardo Zanellato - Bass 
                                    
                                                         
                                             
                                         
                                               
                                                    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 again Verdi’s Requiem in 
                                            Cincinnati and St. Louis, both under Raphael Frübeck de Burgos. 
                                   
                                             
                                           
                                         
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