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                                Riccardo Zanellato - Zaccaria 
                            
                                  
                            
                              
                                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 in 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 and Macbeth at the Opéra de Lyon. 
                                Mr. Zanellato sang Banco in Macbeth for the opening production of the 
                                2013/2014 season of the Comunale in 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 sang 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 and as 
                                Ferrando in Il Trovatore at the Salzburg Festival besides Placido Domingo 
                                under Daniele Gatti. Lately he performed Don Basilio in Padua Verdi’s Requiem 
                                in Vienna, Muti conducting. 
                            
                                
                                Mr. Zanellato’s future plans include: Simon Boccanegra in 
                                Dresden; I Puritani and Verdi’ Requiem in Florence; Norma at the Théâtre 
                                des Champs Elysées in Paris; Il Trovatore  at the Teatro alla Scala 
                                in Milan; Macbeth at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna; Turandot at 
                                the Teatro San Carlo in Naples. Mr Zanellato will sing again Verdi’Requiem with 
                                the  Minnesota Orchestra. 
                          
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