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 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 and Macbeth in Lyon, Banco is the role he also sang 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 starred Schubert’s Mass in A flat for his debut at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Riccardo Muti and Verdi’s Requiem in Vienna, at the Ravenna Festival then on tour in Italy and Slovenia again with Muti while in Minnesota under the baton of Roberto Abbado. He sang Ferrando in Il Trovatore at the Salzburg Festival besides Placido Domingo under Daniele Gatti. Lately he performed Giorgio in Bellini’s I Puritani in Florence, Simon Boccanegra in Dresden, Timur in Turandot at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples and a Gala concert for the 5th Anniversary of the Guangzhou Opera House in China.

Mr. Zanellato’s future plans include: Nabucco in Stuttgart; Aida in Valencia; Norma at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris; Il Trovatore at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan; Macbeth and Attila (title role) at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna; Lucia di Lammermoor in Florence; La Bohème and Norma in Turin. Mr. Zanellato will sing again Verdi’s Requiem with the Berliner Philharmoniker.