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                                Riccardo Zanellato - Jacopo Fiesco
                             
                                  
                                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 performed Verdi’s Requiem in
                                Naples under the baton of Muti, in Vilnius with Violeta Urmana, 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 in Zurich andMacbeth in Lyon. Mr. Zanellato sang
                                Banco in Macbeth 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, Nabuccoin 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 then on tour in Italy and Slovenia again with Muti and in Minnesota under
                                Roberto Abbado. 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, Giorgio in Bellini’s I Puritani in Florence
                                and Timur in Turandot at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples. 
                                Mr. Zanellato’s future plans include: Nabucco in
                                Stuttgart;  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 in Rome (Terme in Caracalla);
                                Lucia di Lammermoor in Florence. Mr. Zanellato will sing again Verdi’s Requiem with
                                the Berliner Philharmoniker and a lyric concert in Guangzhou. |