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                                Riccardo Zanellato - bass
                             
                            
                                  
                            
                                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, Nabucco,  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, Poliuto and 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 in Bologna (R. Abbado/Wilson). He then performed La Juive and
                                a New Year’s Eve Concert in Vilnius and Nabucco in Florence, Stuttgart
                                and Leipzig. Mr. Zanellato sang Schubert’s Mass in A flat for his
                                debut at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Riccardo Muti and Verdi’s Requiem at
                                the Ravenna Festival and on tour in Italy and Slovenia again with Muti. He starred
                                as Ferrando in Il Trovatore at the Salzburg Festival besides Placido
                                Domingo under Daniele Gatti. Lately he performed Verdi’s Requiem in
                                Vienna, Muti conducting. At the Opera di Firenze he just sang Giorgio in Bellini’s
                                I Puritani. 
                            
                                Mr. Zanellato’s future plans include: Nabucco in
                                Stuttgart; Simon Boccanegra in Dresden; 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 and at the Baths of Caracalla in Rome. Mr. Zanellato
                                will sing again Verdi’s Requiem with the Berliner Philharmoniker
                                and the Minnesota Orchestra. 
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