Umberto Chiummo - Martino

After winning the “A. Belli” Competition in Spoleto, Umberto Chiummo made his debut in Le Nozze di Figaro, staged by Gigi Proietti. Much appreciated also for his qualities as an actor, he performs in major opera houses and festivals in Italy and abroad, collaborating with conductors such as Ivor Bolton, Bruno Campanella, Myung-Whun Chung, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti and Wolfgang Sawallisch. Recent engagements include: La Calisto at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Agrippina at the Teatro Real in Madrid and in Antwerp, Giulio Cesare alongside Cecilia Bartoli with William Christie and Les Arts Florissants in Paris; Le Nozze di Figaro at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice and in Munich; La Cenerentola in Strasbourg then on tour in Mulhouse and Colmar; Mozart’s Great Mass in C minor with the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI under Ivor Bolton; La Cenerentola in Treviso and Ferrara; Die Schöpfung in Belfast; Mozart’s Requiem at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples; Le Nozze di Figaro in Munich; Così Fan Tutte in Antwerp. He has recorded Rodelinda, Ariodante, Don Giovanni (Telarc), I Capuleti e i Montecchi (BMG) with Roberto Abbado, Werther (BMG) under the baton of Vladimir Jurowski.

Future plans: Le Nozze di Figaro in Antwerp; Rodelinda in Madrid; Don Giovanni (title role) in Tokyo.

Krystian Adam - Don Eusebio

Much in demand for the 17th and 18th serio and buffo repertoire, the Polish tenor Krystian Adam regularly works with many of the most important conductors of the ‘historically informed practice’, such as John Eliot Gardiner, Giovanni Antonini, Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Teodor Currentzis, Stefano Montanari, Andreas Spering, Werner Ehrhardt, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Vaclav Luks, Fabio Biondi, Fabio Bonizzoni, among others.

Among his most notable past engagements: Rossini’s La pietra del paragone at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris under Jean-Christophe Spinosi; Monteverdi’s Vespro della Beata Vergine with the Monteverdi Choir and John Eliot Gardiner in Cambridge, Versailles, Barcelona and at the Salzburg Festival; Haydn’s Philemon und Baucis in Montecarlo with Europa Galante and Fabio Biondi; Myslivecek’s L’Olimpiade, with Collegium 1704 and Vaclav Luks at the Theater an der Wien; Bach’s Matthäus-Passion with the Akademie für Alte Musik in Berlin and Munich; Bach’s B-minor mass at the Maggio Musicale in Florence under Stefano Montanari; Handel’s Giove in Argo at the Handel Festival in Halle with L’arte del mondo and Werner Ehrhardt; Mozart’s Idomeneo at the Covent Garden under Mark Minkowski.

Future plans include: L’Orfeo (title role and Pastore I) and Vespro della Beata Vergine with the Monteverdi Choir and John Eliot Gardiner on tour in the Unites States (New York, San Francisco, Washington, Costa Mesa, Chapel Hill) and then in London (BBC Proms) and Versailles; Le nozze di Figaro (under Antonio Pappano) at the Covent Garden; Die Zauberflöte at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège; Bach’s Cantata BWV 201 and B-minor mass on a European tour with Collegium 1704.