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 in many productions at the Teatro
dell’Opera in Rome (among others Iphigénie
en Aulide, Moïse et Pharaon, Macbeth, Nabucco, Simon Boccanegra), he collaborates with institutions as La
Scala in Milan, Regio in Turin, Arena in Verona, Massimo in Palermo, Verdi
Festival in Parma, Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia, Liceu in Barcelona, Nederlandse
Opera in Amsterdam, Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, San Carlo in Naples, Opernhaus in Zurich, Vlaamse Opera in Antwerp, Opéra de
Lausanne and Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.
Mr. Zanellato lately
starred in Luisa Miller in Bilbao; Aida at La Scala in Milan,
Valencia, Naples; Poliuto and La Bohème in Zurich; Macbeth in Tel Aviv, Lyon, Banco is also the role he sang for the opening of 2013/2014
season in Bologna (R.Abbado/Wilson) theatre where he return to as Attila (Mariotti/D.Abbado); Nabucco, I Puritani, Lucia di Lammermoor in Florence; Nabucco in Stuttgart, Kiev, Leipzig, Terme in Caracalla, Florence, Rome, Athens, Verona and Paris (D. RUstioni conducting); Il Trovatore
(Ferrando) at the Salzburg Festival besides Placido Domingo under D. Gatti; Simon
Boccanegra in Dresden; Turandot
(Timur) in Naples; Norma and La Bohème in Turin; Norma in Paris, London, Warsaw;
Rigoletto at La Scala in Milan; La Forza del Destino in Sofia; Don
Carlo in Genoa; Anna Bolena at the Regio
in Parma; Lucia di Lammermoor in Naples, Paris and Berlin; Don Carlo in
Leipzig; Sonnambula at the Teatro
dell’Opera in Rome.
Mr. Zanellato performed
Verdi’s Requiem in prestigious venues under important conductors: at the
Festival Verdi in Parma; at the Ravenna Festival, on tour in Italy and Slovenia, in Naples under the baton of R. Muti; in
Moscow at the Rostropovich Festival on tour with the Teatro Comunale in
Bologna; Barcelona; Cincinnati and in St. Louis; in Minnesota under R. Abbado; in Florence with D. Gatti;
at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris; in Berlin
with the Berliner Philarmoniker (under R.
Chailly), in Munich and at the Teatro Regio in Parma; Santander, Parma, Munich with the Bayerische Rundfunks (under R. Muti); Berlin
with the Konzerthausorchester (under J. Valcuha) and in Turin. Other concerts included
Bruckner’s Te Deum in Bari; Beethoven's 9th Symphony in St. Denis
with the Orchestre National de France; Rossini’s Stabat Mater in Tanglewood
and in Buenos Aires; Schubert Mass in Chicago (R. Muti
conducting), where he returned for a solo recital under the baton of R. Muti; Messa per Rossini
at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan (R. Chailly conducting).
Mr. Zanellato made his
debut as Massimiliano in a new production of I Masnadieri
at the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome. Most recently he starred in Attila in Parma; Aida in Valencia and Naples; Rigoletto at
the Teatro alla Scala and Rome; Norma
in Londra- Covent Garden (under A. Pappano) and in Warsaw; Anna Bolena in
Parma; Lucia di Lammermoor in Naples, Théâtre
des Champs Elysées in Paris and Berlin (Deutsche Oper); Don Carlo in Genoa and Tenerife; La Juive in Antwerpen; Aida at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice; Turandot in Tokyo and on tour in Japan; Luisa
Miller in Parma and in Bologna (concert version); Verdi’s Requiem at the Festival Enescu in Budapest (F. Luisi conducting), in Vienna with the Chicago
Symphony Orchestra (R. Muti conducting), in Hamburg, Monte Carlo and Bamberg; Rossini's Stabat Mater in Barcelona; Nabucco in Valencia, Vienna, Liège and Turin; Macbeth at the Teatro Regio in Parma; a series of Gala concerts in Verona and Treviso.
Mr. Zanellato recently starred in Requiem in Palermo (Verdi) and Madrid (Mozart); Macbeth at the Tokyo Spring Festival; Aida in Verona and Novisad; Szenen aus Goethes Faust in Ravenna; Nabucco in Bari and in Milan, Rimini and Ravenna under Riccardo Muti.
Plans include Rigoletto in Muscat; Verdi's Requiem in Paris (TCE), Parma and Vilnius; Lucia di Lammermoor in Munich; Simon Boccanegra in Liège, Tokyo and Parma; Don Giovanni in Turin; Nabucco in Geneve.
January 2022