Alessandro Liberatore - Leicester

Increasingly on demand at the international level, he is the interpreter of titles such as: La Bohème (Deutsche Oper in Berlin, Palm Beach Lyric Opera, Hong Kong, Mannheim), Rigoletto (Palermo, Lisbon), Madama Butterfly (Florida Grand Opera in Miami , Teatro Comunale Bologna), La Clemenza di Tito (Bergen), La Traviata (Trieste, Sassari, Rouen, Malta), Nabucco (Venice, Genoa, Cagliari, Sassari, Erl). He also successfully performed: Thaïs and Idomeneo in Turin; I Capuleti e i Montecchi in Rome; Der Rosenkavalier (Italian Singer) in Barcelona and Madrid. Mr. Liberatore made his successful debut in Verdi’s Requiem in Cagliari, a piece he sang also at the Festival Anima Mundi in Pisa under Aldo Ceccato and with the Orchestra Haydn in Toblach. Other recent successes include: Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly in Tampere; Lucio Silla (title role) in Barcelona under Harry Bickett; Rota’s Mysterium at the Vatican City, at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, in Milan (recorded for Decca) and in Bari; Manon Lescaut with Riccardo Muti, La Bohème and Lucia di Lammermoor in Rome; Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis and L’Elisir d’amore in Cagliari; Otello (Cassio) in Naples; Nabucco in Nancy; Massenet’s Manon in Liège, opposite Annick Massis; Verdi’s Requiem in Erl under Gustav Kuhn.

Amongst his future plans it is worth mentioning his debut as Riccardo in Un Ballo in Maschera in Bern.

Sandra Pastrana - Matilde

The 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 modern 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; Manon in Liège; Jenufa at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna; Mozart’s Krönungsmesse KV 317 in Granada; Boccherini’s Stabat Mater with the ORT-Orchestra della Toscana in Florence and on tour in Italy; Haydn’s La Canterina with Capella Augustina and Andreas Spering for the Opening concert of the Brühler Schlosskonzerte; concerts in Monte Carlo and in Kazan.

Among her future plans it is worth mentioning: Carmen at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples; La Bohème in Oviedo; Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Konstanze) in Malaga; Fauré’s Requiem in Spain.