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Simone Alberghini- Bass Baritone
Italian bass-baritone Simone Alberghini, the 1994 Operalia Grand Prize winner,
has appeared in opera houses at the highest level world-wide since the beginning
of his career. Mr. Alberghini regularly collaborates with internationally
renowned conductors as Alberto Zedda, Vladimir Jurowsky, Riccardo Chailly, Zubin
Mehta, Andrew Davis, Gianandrea Noseda, Seiji Osawa, Maurizio Benini, Michele
Mariotti, Renato Palumbo, Emmanuel Villaume, Nicola Luisotti, Eduardo Muller and
Teodor Currenzis.
Recent engagements include: Semiramide (Assur)at the Teatro San Carlo in
Naples; Don Giovanni in Frankfurt and at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice; Le
Nozze di Figaro as Figaro in Denver and as Conte d’Almaviva at the Teatro
Comunale in Bologna; Zaira (Orosmane) at the Martina Franca Festival; L’Elisir
d’Amore at the Liceu in Barcelona; La Bohème (Marcello) and L’Elisir
d’Amore at the Teatro Regio in Turin; Carmen at the Zurich Opera.
Among his recitals with orchestra it is worth mentioning Verdi’s Requiem with
the Royal Philarmonic Orchestra, the Staatskapelle Dresden under Sinopoli and
with the orchestra Verdi of Milan under Chailly, with whom he also sang Pulcinella in
Leipzig with the prestigious Gewandhausorchester.
Simone Alberghini recently performed: Guillaume Tell at the Rossini Opera
Festival then on tour at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna, Mariotti conducting and
Vick directing; Cardenio in Il Furioso all’Isola di San Domingo at the
Donizetti Musica Festival in Bergamo then on tour in Savona, Modena, Ravenna and
Piacenza; Belcore in L’Elisir d’Amore in Washington; Enrico VIII in Anna
Bolena in Moscow; Mozart Requiem in Turin with the Orchestra
Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai, Marcello in La Bohème in Tenerife; Les
Contes d’Hoffmann in Piacenza, Modena, Reggio Emilia and in Toulon.
Mr. Alberghini starred in La Cenerentola for the opera movie directed by
Carlo Verdone, conducted by Gianluigi Gelmetti and producted by Rada Film.
Future
plans include: La Bohème (Marcello)
in Palermo; La Cenerentola (Dandini) in Washington; La gazza ladra (Fabrizio
Vingradito) at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro; he will also make his debut
as Conte di Luna in Il trovatore in Tenerife.
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Mika Kares – Bass
One of the most interesting young bass of the international opera scene, the
young Finnish bass Mika Kares studied at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. Mr.
Kares sings many varied roles, but in particular has made a name for himself as
a performer of Verdi, Wagner and Mozart. From 2005, until the end of the 2010
season, he was an ensemble member with Baden State Opera. Guest performances
have taken him worldwide to places including Seattle, Hong Kong, Salzburg, Rome,
Paris and Valencia, where he has performed under the baton of many great
conductors such as Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, Paolo Carignani and Marc
Minkowski.
Mika Kares did his Italian debut as Daland in Der Fliegende Holländer at
the Teatro Comunale in Bologna and at the Teatro Regio di Parma as Massimiliano
Moor in I Masnadieri. Among recent engagements it is worth mentioning:
Mozart’s Requiem with the Wiener Philarmoniker and Don Giovanni in
Vienna; Le Nozze di Figaro and Stabat Mater in Tampere;
Shostakovich 14th Symphony and Liederaben in Helsinki;
Die Zauberfloete in Savonlinna and Koln; Don Giovanni in Perm,
recorded with Sony; Die Schöpfung in Bonn; Le Nozze di Figaro in
Zurich; he participated at the Evgenij Onegin production at the
Metropolitan Opera in New York.
Future plans
include Norma
and La favorita (Balthazar) at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich; Don
Carlo in Bilbao; Luisa Miller in Graz; Shostakovich Symphony n.13
in Tapiola; Turandot in Bregenz; Lohengrin in Brussels;
Agrippina in Vienna (Theater an der Wien); La Bohème in Madrid;
Boris Godunov in Savonlinna; Die Zauberfloete in Bologna (new
production by Fanny&Alexander). Mika Kares is as well looking forward to some
most significant house debuts: at the Semperoper Dresden as Filippo II (Don
Carlo) and at the Nederland Opera in Amsterdam as Commendatore in Don Giovanni
with Marc Albrecht.
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