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Riccardo Zanellato - Zaccaria
Riccardo Zanellato started a
distinguished career which saw him performing such operas as Don Carlo,
Rigoletto, La Bohème, Turandot, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Le Nozze di Figaro, I
Puritani, Don Giovanni, I Masnadieri. Regularly invited by Riccardo Muti for many
productions at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome (among others, Iphigénie en
Aulide, Moïse et Pharaon, Macbeth and Simon Boccanegra), he
collaborates with such institutions as the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, 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, the Opernhaus in Zurich, the Vlaamse
Opera in Antwerp, the Opéra de Lausanne and the Accademia Nazionale di Santa
Cecilia. Mr. Zanellato recently sang Verdi’s Requiem in Naples 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. He then performed Nabucco at
the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, Riccardo Muti conducting, La Juive and a
New Year’s Eve Concert in Vilnius and again Nabucco in Stuttgart and
Leipzig.
Mr.
Zanellato’s future plans include: revivals of Nabucco in
Stuttgart; La Juive in Vilnius; Simon Boccanegra at the Opéra de
Lyon and in Dresden; Norma at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris; Il
Trovatore at the Salzburg Festival beside Placido Domingo and under Daniele
Gatti. His concert activity will include Schubert’s Mass in A-flat Major in
Chicago with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Riccardo Muti conducting, and again
Verdi’s Requiem in Cincinnati and St. Louis, both under Raphael Frübeck
de Burgos.
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