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Felipe Bou - Enrico VIII
After studying with Antonio Blancas and Alfredo Kraus, Spanish bass Felipe Bou
made his operatic debut at the Teatro Arriaga de Bilbao, with Marina in
1994, beginning a bright career. Amongst the successes of the past seasons it is
worth mentioning: Raimondo in Lucia di Lammermoor and Ramfis in Aida at
the Düsseldorf Opera; Colline in La Bohème at the Bregenz Festival and at
the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino; Frère Laurent in Roméo et Juliette in
Tokyo; Conte Rodolfo in La Sonnambula in a new production at the Leipzig
Opera; Don Pasquale at the Teatro Real de Madrid; Sparafucile in Rigoletto,
besides Leo Nucci on a tour in Mexico, Beijing and Muscat with the Teatro Regio
in Parma, where he performed Ferrando in Il Trovatore for the Verdi
Festival; Four villains in Les Contes D'Hoffmann, directed by Lindsay
Kemp, in a co-production of Peralada, San Sebastián and Santander festivals and
theatres; Creonte in Medea at Teatro Massimo in Palermo; Oroveso in Norma at
Palma, Majorca; Massimiliano in I Masnadieri at the Zvolen Castle
Festival (Slovakia); Basilio in Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Wiener
Staatsoper; Balthazar in La Favorite directed by Hugo de Ana at Santiago
de Chile; Otello in Sao Paulo; Marke in Tristan und Isolde,
Filippo II in Don Carlo and Fasolt in Das Rheingold in Oviedo;
Wurm in Luisa Miller at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples.
Plans
include: Le Nozze di
Figaro and Le duc d’Albe in Oviedo; Don Carlo in Sao Paulo;
Verdi’s Requiem in Belo Horizonte.
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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 and where he returned conducting Torquato Tasso; Falstaff at
the Teatro Verdi in Busseto and Maria Stuarda at the Teatro Filarmonico
in Verona with Mariella Devia. He recently conducted: Bel Canto concerts with
Mariella Devia in Genoa and with Juan Diego Florez in Dublin, I Puritani at
the Slovak National Opera in Bratislava and Gianni Schicchi and Suor
Angelica in Tirana, Faure’s Requiem in Cagliari and Tirana.
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:
La Cenerentola at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona and a series of concerts
at the International Music Festival in Brno.
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