Virginia Tola - Amelia*
Winner of the Operalia Prize in Barcelona, Mrs. Tola began a career that brought
her to important theaters such as: Colòn in Buenos Aires, Palau de les Arts Reina
Sofia in Valencia, Teatro Real in Madrid, Washington National Opera, Opéra in Monte
Carlo, Arena in Verona, La Monnaie in Brussels, Los Angeles Opéra, Teatro dell’Opera
in Rome, Regio in Turin and the opera houses in Klagenfurt, La Plata and Santa Fe.
After her successes as Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Contessa d’Almaviva
in Le Nozze di Figaro, Violetta in Traviata,
Desdemona in Otello, Luisa Miller (title role) and
Mimì in La Bohème, she has recently added new roles to her
repertoire, singing Lina in Stiffelio, Abigaille in Nabucco,
Nedda in Pagliacci, Amelia in Un ballo in Maschera. Mrs.
Tola sang Amelia in Un Ballo in Maschera at the Teatro Regio in
Parma, at the Colon in Buenos Aires, at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Desdemona
in Otello in Modena and Piacenza and Lina in Stiffelio in
Monte-Carlo; Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni in Oviedo; Falstaff in
Sao Paulo. Besides her opera appearances. Mrs. Tola usually performs in concerts
all over the world: she recently appeared in recital besides Placido Domingo in
Japan. Mrs. Tola’s discography includes Ginastera’s Don Rodrigo and Milena and
Bacalov’s Triple Concerto for Delos International. Virginia Tola
recently gained great success singing Leonora in La Forza del Destino at
the Teatro Regio in Parma and as Amelia in Un Ballo in Maschera at
the Comunale in Bologna, Vick directing and Mariotti conducting, she also sang Ernani at
the Opera in Florence and Tosca at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome.
Among her future plans it is worth mentioning
I Due Foscari in Marseille; Nabucco at the Opéra Royal
de Wallonie in Liège; Don Carlo in Madrid and at the Teatro Municipal
de Sao Paulo.
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Giuseppe Gipali - Riccardo*
Refined interpreter of Verdi’s operas, his repertoire ranges from Bel Canto to Verismo,
to the French Lyric repertoire, which he sang all over the world in prestigious
theatres such as: Teatro alla Scala, Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, Teatro La Fenice
in Venice, Arena di Verona, Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Covent Garden in London,
Wiener Staatsoper, Théâtre du Chatelet and Opera Bastille in Paris, Théâtre du Capitole
in Toulouse, Liceu in Barcelona, San Francisco Opera. Mr. Gipali regularly collaborated
with conductors as Riccardo Muti, Zubin Mehta, Daniele Gatti, Nicola Luisotti, Daniele
Callegari and directors as Franco Zeffirelli, Mario Martone and Pierluigi Pizzi.
Mr. Gipali lately performed La Traviata and Un Ballo in Maschera
in Bologna; Don Carlo in Zurich, Vienna and Berlin; Il Trovatore and
Lucia di Lammermoor in Marseille; Attila at the Opera in
Rome, at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona, and at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in
Liège; Norma in Toulon; Riccardo in Un Ballo in Maschera in
Buenos Aires; Simon Boccanegra in Avignon; Luisa Miller in Lausanne.
Plans
include: I Due Foscari and Anna Bolena in Marseille; Madama
Butterfly in Florence.
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Paolo Arrivabeni - conductor
Music Director at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège.
Regularly invited by the major theaters and opera festivals, Paolo Arrivabeni is
especially in demand for Italian and French opera, but he is also particularly interested
in the major Russian and German repertoire, regularly conducting works by Mahler,
Strauss and Mussorgsky. M° Arrivabeni recently conducted La Favorite at
the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris, La Traviata and Macbeth in
Dresden, La Forza del Destino and a Wagnerian Gala in Liège, Il
Trovatore at the Sferisterio Opera Festival in Macerata, Macbeth
and Nabucco at the Staatsoper and Maria Stuarda at
the Deustche Oper in Berlin, La Straniera and Moïse et Pharaon in
Marseille, Macbeth in Copenaghen, Fidelio, Tosca, Aida
and Les Pecheures de Perles at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège, Roberto
Devereux in Florence, Simon Boccanegra in Dresden, Lucrezia
Borgia at the Munich Opera Festival, lately La Cenerentola in
Liège, La Straniera in Vienna, Il Turco in Italia in
Munich, Don Giovanni in Monte Carlo.
Future plans: Lucrezia Borgia at the Bayerische Staatsoper
in Munich; Nabucco and I Capuleti e i Montecchi at
Deutsche Oper in Berlin; La Bohème at the New National Theatre
in Tokyo and in Rome (Terme in Caracalla); La Forza del Destino at
the Grand Théâtre de Genève; La Rondine in Toulouse; Boris
Godunov and I Due Foscari in Marseille; Don Carlo and Tosca in Dresden; Aida at
the Chorégies d'Orange; Maria Stuarda in Vienna and series
of concerts in Paris. In Liège M° Arrivabeni will conduct Ernani, Die Zauberflöte,
La Bohème, Turandot and other important productions.
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Teatro Massimo
Palermo
May 19th, 2015
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