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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 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
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 at the Opernhaus
in Zurich andMacbeth at the Opéra de Lyon. Mr. Zanellato sang Banco
in Macbeth for the opening production of the 2013/2014 season of
the Comunale in Bologna (R. Abbado/Wilson). He then performed La Juive and
a New Year’s Eve Concert in Vilnius and Nabucco in Florence, Stuttgart
and Leipzig. Mr. Zanellato sang Schubert’s Mass in A flat for his
debut at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Riccardo Muti and Verdi’s Requiem at
the Ravenna Festival and on tour in Italy and Slovenia again with Muti. He starred
as Ferrando in Il Trovatore at the Salzburg Festival besides Placido
Domingo under Daniele Gatti. Lately he performed Verdi’s Requiem in
Vienna, Muti conducting. At the Opera di Firenze he just sang Giorgio in Bellini’s
I Puritani.
Mr. Zanellato’s future plans include: Nabucco in
Stuttgart; Simon Boccanegra in Dresden; Norma at
the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris; Il Trovatore at the Teatro
alla Scala in Milan; Macbeth at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna; Turandot at
the Teatro San Carlo in Naples and at the Baths of Caracalla in Rome. Mr. Zanellato
will sing again Verdi’s Requiem with the Berliner Philharmoniker
and the Minnesota Orchestra.
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