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Riccardo Zanellato - Bass
Riccardo Zanellato
started a distinguished career which saw him performing such operas as Don
Carlo, Rigoletto, La Bohème, Turandot, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Le Nozze di
Figaro, I Puritani, Don Giovanni, I Masnadieri. Regularly invited by
Riccardo Muti for many productions at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome (among
others,Iphigénie en Aulide, Moïse et Pharaon, Macbeth and 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, the 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 of Bologna and in
Barcelona. Mr. Zanellato lately starred in Luisa Miller in Bilbao, Aida at
the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Poliuto, La Bohème at the
Opernhaus in Zurich and Macbeth at the Opéra de Lyon. Mr. Zanellato sang
Banco in Macbeth at the opening night of the last season at the Teatro
Comunale di Bologna, Roberto Abbado conducting and Bob Wilson directing. He then
performed Nabucco at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, Riccardo Muti
conducting, La Juive and a New Year’s Eve Concert in Vilnius and again Nabucco in
Stuttgart and Leipzig.
Mr. Zanellato’s future plans include: revivals of Nabucco in
Stuttgart; La Juive in Vilnius; Simon Boccanegra at the Opéra de
Lyon and in Dresden; Norma at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris; Il
Trovatore at the Salzburg Festival beside Placido Domingo and under Daniele
Gatti. His concert activity will include again Verdi’s Requiem in
Cincinnati and St. Louis, both under Raphael Frübeck de Burgos.
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