Riccardo Zanellato - Bass

Won the Operalia Competition (1996) starting a distinguished career that saw him perform such operas as Don Carlo, Rigoletto, La Bohème, Turandot, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Le Nozze di Figaro, I Puritani, Don Giovanni, I Masnadieri. Much appreciated by Riccardo Muti who invited him for the productions of Iphigénie en Aulide, Moïse et Pharaon, Macbeth and Simon Boccanegra at the Opera in Rome, he regularly collaborates with such institutions as the Teatro Regio in Turin, the Arena in Verona, the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, the Verdi Festival in Parma, the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia, the Liceu in Barcelona, the Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam, the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Settimane Musicali in Stresa, the Opernhaus in Zurich, the Vlamse Opera in Antwerp and the Opéra de Lausanne, Accademia Nazionale Santa Cecilia. Mr. Zanellato recently sang Verdi’s Requiem in Naples again under the baton of Muti, in Vilnius with Violeta Urmana, in Portorico, in Cagliari, in Moscow at the Rostropovich Festival on tour with the Teatro Comunale of Bologna and in Barcelona. Mr. Zanellato lately starred in Luisa Miller in Bilbao, Aida at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Poliuto, La Bohème at the Opernhaus in Zurich and Macbeth at the Opéra de Lyon. Mr. Zanellato sang Banco in Macbeth at the opening night of the last season at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Roberto Abbado conducting and Bob Wilson directing, after that he performed Nabucco at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, Riccardo Muti conducting, La Juive in Vilnius and again Nabucco in Stuttgart.

Mr. Zanellato future plans include: revivals of Nabucco in Stuttgart; La Juive in Vilnius; Simon Boccanegra at the Opéra de Lyon; Norma at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris; Il Trovatore at the Salzburg Festival beside Placido Domingo and Daniele Gatti conducting. On the concert side, Riccardo Zanellato will sing Mass in A-flat Major in Chicago with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Riccardo Muti conducting and again Verdi’s Requiem in Cincinnati, in St. Louis and a Gala concert in Vilnius.