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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 performed Verdi’s Requiem in
                                Naples under the baton of Muti, in Vilnius with Violeta Urmana, 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 in Zurich and Macbeth in Lyon, Banco is the role
                                he also sang for the opening production of the 2013/2014 season in Bologna (R. Abbado/Wilson), La
                                    Juive and a New Year’s Eve Concert in Vilnius, Nabuccoin
                                Florence, Stuttgart and Leipzig. Mr. Zanellato starred Schubert’s Mass in A
                                    flat for his debut at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Riccardo
                                Muti and Verdi’s Requiem in Vienna, at the Ravenna Festival then
                                on tour in Italy and Slovenia again with Muti while in Minnesota under the baton
                                of Roberto Abbado. He sang Ferrando in Il Trovatore at the Salzburg
                                Festival besides Placido Domingo under Daniele Gatti. Lately he performed Giorgio
                                in Bellini’s I Puritani in Florence, Simon Boccanegra in
                                Dresden, Timur in Turandot at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples and
                                a Gala concert for the 5th Anniversary of the Guangzhou Opera House in China. 
                            
                                Mr. Zanellato’s future plans include: Nabucco in
                                Stuttgart; Aida in Valencia; Norma at the Théâtre des
                                Champs Elysées in Paris; Il Trovatore at the Teatro alla Scala
                                in Milan; Macbeth and Attila (title role) at the
                                Teatro Comunale in Bologna; Lucia di Lammermoor in Florence; La Bohème
                                and Norma in Turin. Mr. Zanellato will sing
                                again Verdi’s Requiem with the Berliner Philharmoniker. 
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