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Riccardo Zanellato - Colline
(La Bohème - c. A.Battistoni)
Riccardo Zanellato - Oroveso
(Norma - c. R.Abbado)
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 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, Nabucco
in 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, more recently at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in
Paris and at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo. He sang Ferrando in Il Trovatore at
the Salzburg Festival besides Placido Domingo under Daniele Gatti, then 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 and Naples; 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.
Mr. Zanellato will sing again Verdi’s Requiem with the Berliner
Philharmoniker.
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