Annunziata Vestri - Eleonora, Contessa di Scandiano

Winner of “Lauri Volpi”, “Maria Caniglia” and Rosertum Lyric Contests, Mrs Vestri made her debut in 2003 as Suzuki in Madama Butterfly. An eclectic artist with bold acting qualities, she can boast a huge repertoire that spans from Bel Canto to Verdi and Puccini’s masterpieces. Annunziata Vestri regularly collaborates with theaters such as: Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, Teatro Regio in Turin, Maggio Musicale in Florence, Teatro Comunale in Bologna, San Carlo in Naples, Opéra de Montecarlo, Teatro Regio in Parma, Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago, Sferisterio Opera Festival in Macerata, Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto. Mrs. Vestri lately sang: Donizetti's Belisario at the Bergamo Musica Festival; Cilea's L’Arlesiana at the Wexford Festival Opera and at the Teatro Pergolesi in Jesi; La Clemenza di Tito in Trieste; Rigoletto in Naples, Savona and Genoa, where she also starred in Dvorak’s Stabat Mater; Carmen in Livorno, Lucca and Genoa; Il Trovatore in Schenkenberg; La Traviata at the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari; Madama Butterfly in Kiel. Mrs. Vestri made her film debut performing as Tisbe in La Cenerentola for the Opera movie directed by Carlo Verdone, conducted by Gianluigi Gelmetti and produced by Rada Film. In St. Margarethen she just made her debut as Amneris in Aida. 

Annunziata Vestri future engagements include: Andrea Chénier (Madelon) at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples; Aida (Amneris) in Kazan; Madama Butterfly (Suzuki) in Bari; Falstaff (Meg) in Marseille; Tutino’s Le Braci at the Martina Franca Festival and then in Florence (Teatro alla Pergola).

Sebastiano Rolli - conductor

After his studies at the conservatoires in Parma and Milan, Sebastiano Rolli started to collaborate with important orchestras and ensembles, such as: Orchestra Sinfonica Giuseppe Verdi in Parma, Orchestra Stabile dell’Emilia Romagna Arturo Toscanini, Orchestra Sinfonica in Sanremo, Orchestra Gianandrea Gavazzeni in Brescia, Orchestra Gioacchino Rossini in Pesaro. Among his past engagements, it is worth mentioning: Macbeth at the Slovak National Opera in Bratislava; Maria Stuarda at the Teatro Sociale in Rovigo and Bergamo, where he also opened 2013-2014 season conducting Maria di Rudenz; Falstaff at the Teatro Verdi in Busseto and Maria Stuarda at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona. He recently conducted successful concerts with Mariella Devia in Genoa and with Juan Diego Florez in Dublin.  Active also on the concert side, Sebastiano Rolli can boast a vast repertoire that includes works by Bach, Pergolesi, Händel, Vivaldi, Beethoven, Brahms, Wagner, Mozart, Haydn, Britten, Ravel, Dvorák, Strauss, Sibelius, Ravel, Gershwin, just to name a few. 

Future plans include: I Puritani at the Slovak National Opera in Bratislava, Gianni Schicchi and Suor Angelica in Tirana.