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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. 
                           
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