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                                        Riccardo Zanellato - 
                                        Ramphis
                                         
                                      
                                   
                                        Won the Operalia 
                                        Competition (1996) beginning a distinguished career that saw him perform such 
                                        operas as Don Carlo, Rigoletto, La Bohème, Turandot, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, 
                                        Le Nozze di Figaro, I Puritani, Don Giovanni, I Masnadieri. 
                                        
                                        Much appreciated by Riccardo Muti who invited him for the productions of 
                                        Iphigénie en Aulide, Moïse et Pharaon and Macbeth at the Opera 
                                        in Rome, he regularly collaborates with such institutions as the 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, the Liceu in Barcelona, 
                                        the Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam, the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, the 
                                        Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Settimane Musicali in Stresa, the Opernhaus in 
                                        Zurich, the Vlamse Opera in Antwerp and the Opéra de Lausanne. 
                                   
                                        He has just sung Verdi’s Requiem in Naples again under the baton of 
                                        Riccardo Muti. 
                                    
                                          
                                   
                                        
                                        Future plans:
                                        
                                        Nabucco
                                        in Antwerp; Poliuto and La Bohème at the Opernhaus Zurich; Verdi's
                                        Requiem with Violeta Urmana in Vilnius; Macbeth in Lyon. 
                              
                                   
                           
                                   
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