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                                         Massimiliano Pisapia - Poliuto* 
                                       After his 
                                        brilliant debuts as Riccardo in Un ballo in maschera under Riccardo 
                                        Chailly at the Leipzig Opernhaus, he became a refined interpreter of italian 
                                        repertoire and he started an intense and exciting career that brought him to 
                                        some of the most prestigious theaters and festival such as: Teatro alla Scala in 
                                        Milan, Zurich Opernhaus, Bayerische Staatsoper, Hamburgische Staatsoper, Wiener 
                                        Staatsoper, Opernhaus in Leipzig, Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Teatro del 
                                        Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Teatro Municipal in Santiago de Chile, Palau de les 
                                        Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia, Teatro Regio in Tutin, Arena di Verona, Teatro 
                                        Regio in Parma, Opéra Bastille in Paris and Festival Pucciniano in Torre del 
                                        Lago. 
                                     
                                       He recently 
                                        sang Madama Butterfly and La Bohème at the Teatro Regio in Turin;
                                        Lucia di Lammermoor in Hamburg and in Trieste; La Bohème at the 
                                        Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa and Simon Boccanegra in Vienna. 
                  
                                        Future 
                                        plans include: La 
                                        Bohème at the Hamburgische Staatsoper and Madama Butterfly in 
                                        Minorca. 
                                        *role debut 
                                          
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                                         Riccardo Zanellato - Callistene* 
                                        Won the Operalia Competition (1996) 
                                        beginning a distinguished career that saw him perform such operas as Don 
                                        Carlo, Rigoletto, La Bohème, Turandot, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Le Nozze di 
                                        Figaro, I Puritani, Don Giovanni, I Masnadieri. Much 
                                        appreciated by Riccardo Muti who invited him for the productions of Iphigénie 
                                        en Aulide, Moïse et Pharaon and Macbeth at the Opera in Rome, 
                                        he regularly collaborates with such institutions as the 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, Settimane Musicali in Stresa, the Opernhaus in Zurich, the 
                                        Vlamse Opera in Antwerp and the Opéra de Lausanne. 
                                        He has just 
                                        sung Verdi’s Requiem in Naples again under the baton of Riccardo Muti. 
                                        After that he starred in Luisa Miller in Bilbao and Aida at the 
                                        Teatro alla Scala in Milan. 
                  
                                        Future 
                                        plans include: 
                                        Nabucco in Antwerp; La Bohème at the Opernhaus in Zurich; Verdi's 
                                        Requiem with Violeta Urmana in Vilnius; Macbeth in Lyon; Anna 
                                        Bolena in Munich; Verdi’s Requiem in Portorico; Norma at the Terme di 
                                        Caracalla in Rome, Renato Renzetti conducting. 
                                        
                                        *role debut |