Alessandro Liberatore - Le chevalier des Grieux
Increasingly on demand at the international level, he is the interpreter of such titles as: La Bohème (Deutsche Oper in Berlin, Palm Beach Lyric Opera and in Hong Kong), Rigoletto (Teatro Massimo in Palermo), Madama Butterfly (Florida Grand Opera in Miami), La Clemenza di Tito (Bergen), La Traviata (Trieste and Malta), Nabucco (Venice, Genoa, Cagliari and Sassari), Thaïs and Idomeneo at the Teatro Regio in Turin; Macbeth (Macduff) in Sassari; I Capuleti e i Montecchi at the Opera in Rome; and Der Rosenkavalier (Italian Singer) in Barcelona and Madrid. Alessandro Liberatore recently performed Lucia di Lammermoor in Rovigo; Rigoletto at the Teatro Nacional de Sao Carlos in Lisbon; La Traviata in Rouen; Nabucco and a series of concerts at the Tiroler Festspiele in Erl, Gustav Kuhn conducting. Mr. Liberatore has just made his exciting debut in Verdi’s Requiem in Cagliari, at the Festival Anima Mundi in Pisa under Aldo Ceccato and in Toblach under Andrea Battistoni and gained great success as Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly in Tampere; Lucio Silla (title role) at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona under Harry Bickett; Rota’s Mysterium at the Vatican City and at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples; Lucia di Lammermoor in Catania; Manon Lescaut under the baton of Riccardo Muti and La Bohème at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome; Missa Solemnis in Cagliari; Otello in Naples. His future projects include: Nabucco in Nancy; Rota’s Mysterium at the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari; and Mozart’s Requiem in Erl, Madama Butterfly in Bologna.
Sandra Pastrana - Poussette
The young Spanish soprano made her debut in Barcelona as Norina in Don Pasquale, a role that she then performed under the baton of Riccardo Muti at the Musikverein in Vienna. In the past seasons she appeared in La Traviata in Marbella, Haydn’s Lo Speziale at the Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville, La Gazza Ladra (Ninetta) at the Rossini Opera Festival in Wildbad. She was Violetta Valery in La Traviata in Siena, conducted by Gianluigi Gelmetti; Lisette in Graham Vick’s production of La Rondine by Puccini at La Fenice in Venice; Marie in La Fille du Régiment in Tokyo. She also sang Don Pasquale in Ancona under Bruno Campanella; La Cecchina in Bergamo under Stefano Montanari; Adelaide di Borgogna in La Coruña with Alberto Zedda; Petite Messe Solennelle with Gustav Kuhn in Lucca, Erl and Rome; Rigoletto in Korea with Deuk-Gy Kim. She recently performed Don Giovanni in Lucca; La Sonnambula and L’Elisir d’Amore in Malaga; Werther in Salerno and Sassari where she also sang La clemenza di Tito and Il Signor Bruschino; Il Ratto dal Serraglio (world premiere of the Italian version) in Vicenza; Help, Help, the Globolinks! in Palermo; Rigoletto in Cosenza; La Traviata in Spoleto and Ljubljana; Nabucco in Erl under Gustav Kuhn; Il Cappello di Paglia di Firenze at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence; La Bottega dei Sogni in Bari; Tebaldo e Isolina at the Rossini Festival in Bad Wildbad; a concert in Monte Carlo and in Kazan. Among her future plans it is worth mentioning Jenufa at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna.
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