Riccardo Zanellato - Ferrando

Riccardo Zanellato’s career has led him to become one of the reference artists for the most important bass roles . 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, 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, in Barcelona, in Cincinnati and in St. Louis. 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 andMacbeth at the Opéra de Lyon. Mr. Zanellato sang Banco in Macbeth for the opening production of the 2013/2014 season of the Comunale di Bologna (R. Abbado/Wilson). 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 has just sung Schubert’s Mass in A flat Major for his debut at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Verdi’s Requiem at the Ravenna Festival and on tour in Italy and Slovenia again with Muti.

Mr. Zanellato’s future plans include: Nabucco in Nancy and Stuttgart; Simon Boccanegra in Dresden; Norma at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris; Il Trovatore  at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan; Turandot at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples.